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Right turn, Clyde

Benny the Ball

14:10 / 20.04.04

Why, why so many films with monkeys in them? I get the appeal, monkeys are great, but so many of them seem only to be about so that people can jokingly refer to them as good.

Is a stipulant of Hollywood's pact with the devil that all producers have to make at least one film with a monkey in it?

Anyway, Kong was voted best monster recently, who is the best movie monkey/ape? My vote goes with Clyde.

Chubby P

14:41 / 20.04.04

Clydes cool! Suzanne was pretty cool too! Clyde and Suzanne should get together. They'd make a fortune as a celebrity monkey couple!

zee

15:19 / 20.04.04

Did Clyde get his own song? By geek-rockers Weezer, no less?

I think not.

Suzanne wins, provisionally.

However, if I am proved wrong and Clyde has his own song by a more impressive chanteur, I will concede defeat.

Alternatively - Can I suggest the Planet of the Apes remake as the worst supporting role by a (group of) monkey(s)?

Haus of Mystery

18:50 / 20.04.04

Monkeys are SO last year. It's all about land-sharks this year.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:36 / 20.04.04

Dude! The monkey from Pirates of the Caribbean! It was a pirate, and a zombie, and a fucking monkey!

Or maybe that Nazi monkey from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Or the FLYING monkeys from Wizard of Oz. They could fly.

miss wonderstarr

22:34 / 20.04.04

Chewbacca is a kind of monkey.

eddie thirteen

00:05 / 21.04.04

I'm tempted to go with zombie monkey (pirates suck, though -- I mean, come on -- but if it had been a ninja zombie monkey then...Jesus, holy shit, dude), but I have to give it up for the monkey who hung out with the garage band in American Pie and covered his little monkey eyes when Shannon Elizabeth got naked on the webcam. Any monkey that can show up a topless, masturbating Shannon Elizabeth is a monkey indeed.

black mask

00:22 / 21.04.04

kovacs I think you mean a 'mockney'.

Benny the Ball

06:03 / 21.04.04

Imagine it. Chewbacca with a Hoxton fin. Each growl becoming more and more Jamie Oliver-esque.

Pan Paniscus

13:54 / 21.04.04

The monkey from Pirates of the Caribbean! It was a pirate, and a zombie, and a fucking monkey!

Or maybe that Nazi monkey from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Or the FLYING monkeys from Wizard of Oz. They could fly.

And all will hold a well-deserved place in the Movie Monkey Hall of Fame, but to my mind the winner has to be the little monkey Boo, who played 'Ella' in Monkey Shines. This is a film about a quadraplegic man who is given a helper monkey to make the tea, wash his clothes, answer the phone, etc. But Ella the helper monkey has been intellectually enhanced through being injected with material taken directly from PSYCHO BRAINS! And, obviously, goes on a kill crazy murder spree (including stabbing a budgie to death).

Alright, so it sounds like a shit film, and to be fair, it is. But it is worth noting that Boo is easily the best actor in the film. By a mile.

Pants Payroll

14:00 / 21.04.04

Bart: "I rented all of your favorite Gorilla movies: 'Gorilla Squadron', 'Gorilla Island Six'..."
Homer: "Apes-A-Poppin!"

Pan Paniscus

14:19 / 21.04.04

Homer: "Apes-A-Poppin!"

Don't forget Hail To The Chimp!

_Boboss

15:07 / 21.04.04

the bit in head where little davey's doing the brassy cockney number, and the colours of his suit and the background are cutting fast between each other? i love that bit

h1ppychick

18:56 / 21.04.04

You guys all seem to have forgotten the majority of the cast from Project X, who quite frankly acted Matthew Broderick and Helen Hunt off the screen, and the ape in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back who acted a much-needed element of humour to the proceedings.

Shame on you all. If I could work out pesky URL-linkage in HTML I'd send you the path of the angels.

Mourne Kransky

16:45 / 22.04.04

Just namechecking Max, Mon Amour in which the wondrous Charlotte Rampling has an affair with a monkey. Of course, having married and divorced Jean Michel Jarre would count as research for the part.

Ganesh

17:05 / 22.04.04

Ed, in Shaun of the Dead.

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