Monkey Shines (1988)
3/10
Bad Monkey, Bad!
5 February 2008
I find it interesting that we've not heard anything from the top billed actors in this film, but Stephan Root, Janine Turner and Stanley Tucci all have gone on to successful movie careers.

Anyway, back to the movie. It reeks of a made for TV special and the acting is pretty awful. It's fun to watch with a date or friends; too see who and how the little primate will do in next. There is a truly scary scene in which the nurse, who at first finds a banana peel in her slipper next finds her dead pet bird. But these chilling moments are few. And that's too bad, because what this movies really need was more development of the monkey's subtle human qualities of vengeance.

An incredibly bad movie that had potential; I liked the premise a lot. Hopefully a better treatment will come out in the future.
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