After a car crash sends repressed cartoonist Stu Miley (Fraser) into a coma, he and the mischievous Monkeybone, his hilariously horny alter-ego, wake up in a wacked-out waystation for lost souls. When Monkeybone takes over Stu's body and escapes to wreak havoc on the real world, Stu has to find a way to stop him before his sister pulls the plug on reality forever!
One of those newfangled production design monstrosities that grabs you by the collar in the first ten minutes, then shakes you around like a rag doll until you're ready to drop.
– Paul Tatara,
CNN.com,
23 Feb 2001
fresh:
There's unwieldy mess -- but there's also unruly brilliance to this dark and funny story.
– Lisa Schwarzbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Mar 2001
rotten:
Why do I still have a soft spot for this flick? Because there are glimmers of intelligence in the mess, because it must have driven the marketing department crazy, and because it fails so differently than all those run-of-the-mill failures.
– Rick Groen,
Globe and Mail,
22 Mar 2002
rotten:
The design is often brilliant, although the film is nowhere near as tasteless or funny as it ought to be.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
You can almost see money dripping off the walls of the sets and cybersets in this special-effects extravaganza.