Funniest scene(s) in the movie
I love this movie, because it's so bad it's funny, and it's full of SO MUCH unintentional comedy! What scene(s) do you think is/are the funniest?
shareIt was funny, but the laughs were not unintentional. The whole film plays like a Hitchcock parody, and Romero has always included comedy in even the most dire of his productions. Remember the pie fight in Dawn of the Dead?
Monkey Shines is a great, funny thriller, and Romero knew exactly what he was doing when he put those jokes in the script. It is a movie about a killer helper-monkey. Of course it is funny.
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Hmm, I don't view the film in an MST3K fashion like that. It's a good little thriller with some awkward moments in it. When he munched the monkey I was like "YEAAAAAAAH!!!"; the barn sex was an interesting use of a handicapped bathing harness, kinda like oral handlebars; I could feel Allan's moodswings because of Beghe's performance; the bird pecking Allan's eyes made my face itch more than laugh; you lodge a phone into anything than only goes three miles an hour, it's gonna get trapped.
But if I had to pick an unintentional giggler, it would be when Allan is trying to scream for help out the window and the guys are looting Geoffrey's car. WTF?? Plus some of the 70s jungle boy/Brady Bunch-ish music cues.
Just the fact he was in a wheelchair was in general funny...
Ugh, that made me sounds horrible, let me explain:
When Geoffery was chasing Ella or something in the end, and Allan is like, "OMG!!! I MUST DO SOMETHING!!!"
And his wheelchair goes 0.2 miles per hour....
The monkey death was HILARIOUS. Really, it's the whole reason the film was worth watching for me....
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shareDang. The "?" Was a thumbs up. Ruined it.
shareThe monkey pop out scene was pretty rad..
shareThe beginning shows us the photo of him as a track athlete, except that in the photo, there are no other runners competing and he's elated at breaking the finish line ribbon.
Just pause and go look at that photo. They had to plan a location, costumes and everything, but forgot the runners.
Some running events are quite long, so perhaps he was alone crossing the finish line because...he was winning?
Frankly, when I saw the photo, I wondered if maybe it wasn't a pre-existing photo of Jason Beghe. Clearly the dude is/was in phenomenal shape, and he's lean like an actual runner.