Stu Miley (Brendan Fraser) is the author of America's most disturbed, and most popular, comic strip, "Monkeybone". He is also plagued by nightmares, and then on the night that he is going to propose to his girlfriend (Bridget Fonda) he falls into a coma by due to a car accident. This plunges him into a shadowy place called Downtown, where those in comas wait to die or recover. They entertain themselves by watching dreams, so Stu is a star thanks to his twisted nightmares. But worst of all is his character Monkeybone, a wisecracking chimp. Monkeybone agrees to help Stu to wake up, but betrays him to steal his body.
Monkeybone was pretty much doomed to failure at the box office. First of all, it's about comic books. And secondly Twentieth Century Fox treated it like it was a dead cat. This is a great pity, because this is actually a lot more than the usual Brendan Fraser film. The jokes are, of course, pretty base. That doesn't stop them being funny. The film looks incredible, especially the scenes in the surrealistic Downtown. This is a film well worth seeing, despite the occasional missed beat in the script.

The movie belongs to an old movie tradition, in which guys are terrified that wedding bells may be breaking up their old gang. In this case a group of "tomcats" - males in their late teens - make a pact. The last one standing (i.e. not married) will win a pot of money into which they all regularly contribute (the contributions are then invested in the stock market). Eventually, the field is down to two: Michael (Jerry O'Connell) and Kyle (Jake Busey). When Michael falls into debt to a gangster (Bill Maher), he has to come up with $50,000 quickly or lose his life. So he concocts a scheme to get Kyle married. That involves tracking down Natalie (Shannon Elizabeth), the only girl Kyle claims to have ever cared about, and convincing her to marry Kyle. But there are two problems: Natalie despises Kyle and she and Michael quickly fall for each other.
Writer/director Gregory Poirier (making his debut behind the camera after scribing such memorable material as See Spot Run) tries to balance the tasteless aspects of his picture (and there are many) with a helping of light romance. This certainly worked in movies like There's Something about Mary and American Pie but not this time around On the bright side, this film has a nice sound track and, for the voyeur, tons of very beautiful bodies. So, if you are not easily grossed out and you are looking for a 'no-brainer' movie then why not prove me wrong.