Six hundred thirty four blowjobs in five days (2/28/01)
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Monkeybone. [Henry Selick, 2001. From a graphic novel (Dark Town) by Kaja Blackley.]
Orpheus in Cool World: cartoonist Brendan Fraser masters his dark side, hits it big, and is about to propose to his girlfriend Bridget Fonda [who used to play little sister to Blair Brown’s doctor, but now gets to play doctor herself] when a freak accident drops him into a coma and sends him off on a journey to the Land of Dreams — a sort of puppet-show carnival [compare Beetlejuice] beyond space and time where the main attraction, to his chagrin and disgust, is his own illmannered but flamboyant creation, the eponymous Monkeybone [for which read, the Little Head]; when presently his sentence is commuted and he is allowed to return to the land of the living, the Id usurps the place of the Ego. Complications ensue. — This sucked, of course, though not so badly as critical opinion would have it; personally, I rather liked Rose McGowan in kitty whiskers.
____________Baker’s dozen (2/21/01)
