Rotten
Attempt to draw out a thin, familiar slapstick idea isn't carried off.
Variety Staff, Variety
Monkey Business
It's some fun!
1952 · 1h 37m · Approved
Comedy, Science Fiction
Directed by
Howard Hawks
Overview
Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.
Director and cast
- Howard Hawks Director
- Cary Grant as Dr. Barnaby Fulton
- Ginger Rogers as Mrs. Edwina Fulton
- Charles Coburn as Mr. Oliver Oxley
- Marilyn Monroe as Miss Lois Laurel
- Hugh Marlowe as Hank Entwhistle
- Henri Letondal as Dr. Jerome Kitzel
- Robert Cornthwaite Cast
- Larry Keating Cast
- Kathleen Freeman Cast
- Douglas Spencer Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
85%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Monkey Business ranks with the best works of the American cinema.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten
As soon as this gag is established and provokes the obvious guffaws, the subsequent changes rung upon it become just a little dull.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
he timing of the gags can put most Hollywood comedies, never mind TV sitcoms, to shame.
Time Out
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