Have you seen a case of
manipulation through monkeys?
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12 Monkeys (1995)
28 Days
(2000)
28 Days Later (2003)
British horror monkeys everywhere! Do all movies containing the
words "28 Days" require a simian? There's a spooky monkey/fertility
cycle message in all this, I'm sure.
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
Poor
1492:
Conquest of Paradise (1992)
2001: A
Space Odyssey (1968)
You can
call them proto-humans if you like, but
About a Boy
(2002)
Explicit
monkeys in a cage at the zoo function as background to a discussion about sex.
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
The
origins of the "Rally Monkey" lie here: the video clip that will live
in California Angels infamy . . . You're telling me
Ace Ventura:
When Nature Calls (1996)
More of
the same from Jim Carrey and co. Isn't that just so funny . . .
Adaptation (2002)
One of
the precious flowers masks as a monkey.
Addicted to
Love (1997)
A
monkey squirts perfume on the virile French chef. This is a meta-organ grinder,
i.e. an organ grinder monkey within a movie that uses the monkey to pull in the
public.
The
Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai (1984)
"Monkey boy"
Africa
Express (1975)
Aladdin
(1992)
Aladdin is a street-urchin who lives in a large and busy town with his faithful
monkey friend Abu. When Princess Jasmine gets tired of being forced to remain
in the palace that overlooks the city, she sneaks out to the marketplace, where
she accidentally meets Aladdin. What would this movie be without the monkey?
Sequels:
The Return of Jafar (1993)
Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996)
Alakazam The Great (1961)
A Japanese-made animated children's film about the exploits of a magical
monkey's adventures.
Amadeus
(1984)
Milos Forman’s biography of Amadeus (“loved of God”) was loved of
audiences and the Academy alike, no doubt do to monkey references, midgets,
and, possibly, the beautiful score by some guy named
American
Wedding (2003)
Andre,
who apparently has deep monkey issues, emailed us about this offender:
"Last night I saw a clip from American Wedding: the girl that plays
'Willow' on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' says, after observing some extremely
awkward teen-courting behavior, 'It’s like watching monkeys use tools for the
first time.' We all know monkeys can use tools--all too well. Yeah, tools. It
starts with a bone used to kill a pig-thing and then next thing you know
they’re scrubbing our minds with incredibly unsubtle ‘comedies’ like this one.
If I were to infiltrate the Hollywood screenwriting syndicate I would write
America's
Sweethearts (2001)
“The
monkey’s in day care.” Radio code talk.
Anaconda
(1997)
Monkey
used to fish for big snake. Big snake eats monkey and the
The Animal
(2001)
Animal
Behavior (1989)
Monkey/Sex connection. The beautiful biologist
Animals Are
Beautiful People (1974)
Anger
Management (2003)
Any Given
Sunday (1999)
Fan in gorilla
suit in stands. The sports connection is pretty obvious here. Phoenix Suns gorilla beware!
Any Which
Way You Can (1980), etc.
Some
might say
A*P*E (1976)
In a plot reminiscent of "King Kong," a 36-foot gorilla winds up in
Korea where he wreaks havoc while enamored with a visiting American actress.
The Ape
(1940)
The Ape Man
(1943)
Conducting weird scientific experiments, crazed Dr. James Brewster, aided by his
colleague Dr. Randall, has managed to transform himself into a hairy,
stooped-over ape-man. Desperately seeking a cure,
Armageddon
(1998)
Two of
the heroes are arguing which one of them is Han Solo and which is Chewbacca.
Saving the world, man and space-ape!
Apollo 13
(1995)
Stuffed
monkey in
Apocalypse
Now (1979)
Upon the arrival of what is left of
At The
Circus (1939)
A wealthy young man (
The Attic
(1979)
A librarian devotes her life to caring for a wheelchair-bound tyrannical father
after being stood up at the altar. She fantasizes about his death and finds joy
only with her pet monkey. When the monkey disappears, a shocking past is
revealed.
Chimp drinks his own urine, “Monkey nuts,” and the obligatory midget.
Away All
Boats (1956)
The ship's captain has a pet monkey.
B. Monkey (1998)
Italian
film. When you're trying to market a foreign film in the tough U.S. market,
what's rule number one? Use the simian.
Babe: Pig in
the City (1998)
Chimpanzees are among the animals staying at the animal hotel. The gratuitous
monkey shots are unreal. Do they expect us to believe monkeys are city animals?
Maybe they want us to believe so.
Bachelor
Party (1984)
Monkey
wrenches (and Hookers!)
Back to
School (1986)
Bad Boys
(1995)
Balaoo ou des Pas au Plafond
[aka Balaoo the Demon
Baboon] (1913)
An ape, turned near human by Dr. Coriolis and given
the name 'Balaoo', is smitten by the beauty of Coriolis' niece, Madeleine. Being inquisitive, though, he
runs off, getting into mischief, and falls in with a poacher who saves his
life. Acting now as his slave Balaoo kills a man for
the poacher, but balks on his orders to kidnap
Bandwagon
(1996)
They
name the band Circus Monkeys and want to get famous and rich.
Bangkok
Dangerous (1999)
A deaf and mute hetman takes his new girlfriend to an arcade with a menacing
Opening
scene. Japanese snow monkey in hot pot.
Barbarella (1968)
Amid
the mild nudity and incoherency of
The Barefoot
Executive (1971)
Classic Disney offender. This is an early version of the "bread and
butter"
The Beach (2000)
Beast of
Borneo (1934)
A mad scientist named
The Beast
That Killed Women (1965)
Sex/Monkey connection. A gorilla terrorizes a nudist camp.
Beavis and
Butthead Do America (1996)
The
general silliness of this movie includes a
Bedtime For Bonzo (1951)
It made
a President and thus gave us ___doo economics? Anyone? Voodoo economics.
Being
"You're
lucky you're a monkey, because consciousness is a curse."
Two entertainers parachute onto a Pacific island where they encounter natives,
evil scientist
Best of
Times (1986)
(
The Best Man
(1999)
Someone
says "monkey ass."
Better Luck
Tomorrow (2003)
Red monkey on
Big (1988)
Stuffed
monkeys behind
Big Daddy
(1999)
Big Top Pee Wee (1988)
Bikini Beach
(1964)
A millionaire sets out to prove that his pet chimpanzee is as intelligent as
the teenagers who hang out on the local beach, where he is intending to build a
retirement home and throw the kids off.
Biloxi Blues
(1988)
In what
seems to be a mandatory boot camp topos,
The Birdcage
(1996)
Nathan
Lane character calls man who assaulted
Black Rain
(1989)
"Who's the monkey?"
A Blind
Bargain (1922)
Boiler Room
(2000)
"He's
a chimp..."
The Bone
Collector (1999)
Monkey
hanging from dashboard movie (in the trailer). There may be more, but it was
there to get you into the theater.
Bonzo Goes To College (1952)
Bonzo runs away from a carnival sideshow, landing in
the college town of Pawlton where he is adopted by
the granddaughter of the college football coach.
Born To Be
Wild [aka
Brain Dead
(1992)
In 1957 a zoologist traps a rare rat monkey on Skull Island and brings it back
to New Zealand with the local aborigines hot on his trail. Later, a young man
falls in love and takes the young woman to the zoo. His overbearing and
disapproving mother follows them and gets bitten by the rat monkey. The
monkey's bite turns her into a zombie, and her doting son has to keep her (and
the others she's bitten) tranquilized in the basement while trying to preserve
his love life.
Breakfast Club (1995)
80s
monkeys. There is simian representation in the "Breakfast Club".
At one point,
Breathless
(1961)
Frenchman
plays with a monkey toy. We should expect better from
The Bride
and the Beast (1957)
The Bridge
on the River Kwai (1957)
Garnering
several Academy Awards, this film adaptation of the novel by
Bride of the
Gorilla (1951)
Bring It On!
(2000)
Cheerleaders, cleavage, and an obvious monkey reference. As
Bringing Out
the Dead (2000)
UB40's
version of Red, Red Wine (...the monkey get choked...). Nice try Marty, but
this is not your first offence, and I doubt it will be your last.
Talk about a monkey reference.
Buddy (1997)
Related link: Buddy (Sony Pictures)
A Business
Affair (1993)
In this French film, a man buys a monkey for his wife after she loses a baby.
How much more subversive can a movie be? They'd love you to replace your
children with the monsters!
Bye Bye Monkey/Ciao maschio (1977)
Sardonic, bleak comedy about a group of misfits in a decrepit area of Manhattan
where rats seem about to displace humanity in all the buildings. Depardieu,
irresistible to women as always, prefers the company of a chimpanzee.
Related link: DVD cover
Cabin Boy (1994)
"Gosh
you're cute. Wanna buy a monkey?" As a matter of
fact, no we don't.
Caddyshack (1980)
Captive Wild
Woman (1943)
Early monkey/sex connection movie. A mad scientist turns an orangutan into
Sequels:
Jungle Woman (1944)
Shot after killing her creator in "Captive Wild Woman,"
Jungle Captive (1945)
Dr.
Carry On Up
The Jungle (1970)
A comedic takeoff on Tarzan by the "Carry On" cast.
Cats and
Dogs (2001)
An
unimaginative movie targeted at an age group difficult to determine, this film
features a talking pet accusing another of driving "like a
chimpanzee."
Chang (1927)
When a circus co-owner is found dead with a broken neck in a locked wagon, the
circus ape, Caesar, is suspected of killing him.
Chasing
Holden:
"That chick could be a bigger disease carrier than the monkey in
outbreak."
Six
Oscars, including Best Picture. Roxie's diary refers to her husband as a
"baboon." While it's not clear if this passage has been altered by
her lawyer for theatrical effect in the courtroom, it is clear that the
line was added by the screenwriter for greater appeal, as if burlesque women in
prison weren't enough.
The Chill
Factor [aka A Cold Day's Night] (1972 TV-movie)
Two scientists working with primates in a polar research station discover they
may not be alone.
The Chimp
(1922 short)
In lieu of back wages, the defunct circus that
Christmas
Vacation (1989)
During
Clark Griswold's rant after receiving the "Jelly of the Month" (or
the "Gift that keeps on giving" according to cousin
#1 on
the American Film Institute's 100 movies. Just before the opening
"Rosebud" scene, there is a vivid shot of two monkeys on the steps of
the gate to Xanadu. The scene could be read parabolically as suggesting that the necessary initiation
into the Hollywood wonderland of fame and fortune is mediated by the
gate-keeping simian. Ironically,
Clerks
(1994)
"doing
a job a monkey wouldn't want" = The nuance that
would explode into full-blown manipulAPEtion in
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Close
Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Cobra Woman
(1944)
The hapless
Coming to America (1988)
Congo (1995)
One of the movies that tipped us off to the conspiracy. A megalomaniacal C.E.O.
sends his son into the dangerous African Congo on a quest for a source of
diamonds large enough and pure enough to function as powerful laser
communications transmitters (or is it laser weapons?). They find talking
monkeys, white monkeys, all manner of monkeys. No
major stars, thin plot, and lame special effects, BUT a huge summer blockbuster
that year. How was the financial success possible? Need you ask?
Cow Monkey
(2001)
Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)
Jet Li beats up a cage
full of Ultimate Championship Fighters with a midget.
Crazy/Beautiful
(2001)
Crocodile
Dundee in L.A. (2001)
Aussie hero played by actor in desperate need of work exercises his special
control of animals on a simian in Southern California. Damn that's good cinema!
Crooklyn (1994)
A Spike
Lee joint with monkey references.
Cure (2001)
Japanese
thriller. Mesmerism, murder, and monkeys. Note the
clever alliteration of the preceding abbreviated summary.
Days of Thunder (1990)
That
grumpy old southern Senator that played in Hunt for Red October ?) is the head of professional racing and is chewing out
Deep Rising (1998)
(Fortunately I didn’t have to watch the movie to see the monkey. I happened to
turn it on as one of the brutish rogues was saying ...) Movie quote: “...I want
to eat a cup of greasy pig with pickled monkey brains...”--RP
Deuce
"...he-monkey..."
Devil in a Blue Dress
(1995)
Diamonds are Forever
(1971)
Die Hard (1988)
Dinosaur
(2000)
Typical Disney offender. A dinosaur is raised by a family of lemurs. #1 at the box office. I guess the dinosaurs wouldn't be
extinct if every one of them had a family of monkeys to teach them the value of
team work. What kind of propaganda do they want us to swallow? The name itself
is evidence of deceit. The movie was really about monkeys. As
always
Related link: Walt Disney Pictures presents Dinosaur
Doc
Hollywood (1991)
Mayor (David
Ogden Steirs of M*A*S*H fame) says monkey.
Related link: Movie poster (in German)
The Doctor's
Experiment; or Reversing
The doctor turns his victims into apes. Upon discovering he can't change them
back, he puts them on display. Hey, doesn't this sound like a real life plan?
"Monkey man wants to play"
A sound remake of the silent "Balaoo." A
young man visits his fiancé in a remote French villa where her scientist father
(
La
Don't Lie
(1942)
A big
monkey has escaped from the circus, and Buckwheat sees it enter the
neighborhood "haunted house." Buckwheat tries to tell his friends,
but they don't believe him because he has been fibbing lately. To teach him a
lesson, the gang dress Froggy up in a monkey suit and
have him posted inside the "haunted house." They take Buckwheat
inside, but the joke backfires when the Our Gang are
pursued by the real monkey...
Don’t Say a
Word (2001)
Girl
likes two words: ‘Sally’ and ‘monkey’. Naturally.
Double Take
(2001)
Drive Me
Crazy (1999)
Monkey video clips shown in school.
Drop Dead
Gorgeous (1999)
For her talent in a beauty contest, a cheerleader
shouts “Go Monkeys!” to cheer on two boys wrestle on a mat in front of her.
Some girls will do anything to win.
UPDATE:
Drunken
Monkey (1979)
Dumb and
Dumber (1994)
"...hey they have the Monkees!"
Dumb and Dumberer: When
The lunch lady (
Dumbo (1941)
Monkeys
are
Dunston Checks In (1996)
In this slapstick adventure, a jewel-thief orangutan named Dunston
causes chaos as he makes his way through a swanky Manhattan hotel to rob the
guests. Dunston's master is the film's meanie, so the ape befriends the two young sons of the
hotel's manager. The human is the monster.
Related link:20th Century Fox: Dunston Checks
In
A chimpanzee, billed as his minor league baseball's team's mascot, turns out to
be the best third baseman since
Emperor's
New Groove (2000)
The End
(1999)
Skateboarding
film featuring the Birdhouse skate team (
Entrapment (1999)
E.T. (1982)
"Maybe
he's some animal that wasn't supposed to live. Could be a
monkey or an orangutan." One of the top grossing
films of all time.
Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind (2004)
There’s
hardly a
Every Which
Way But Loose (1978)
The travails of a bare-knuckle boxer (
Sequel: Any Which Way You Can (1980)
Evolution
(2001)
In what may have been one of the dumbest movies I have ever seen, a simple
reference in the form of the insult “monkey turd”
only foreshadowed the evolution of a menacing race of alien simians toward the
end of the film. It took much less time to realize that the movie had evolved
into the other half of the insult.
The Eye
(2003)
A wooden monkey appears on a wall in Thailand hospital. This movie, similar to,
but a little deeper and more disturbing than, The Sixth Sense, reveals the fact that ghosts are all around us,
causing mischief and evil. So are cinematic monkeys. Truth is spooky.
Falling Down
(1992)
"Take
out a jumbo jet with one of these monkeys" (this was the TV version so the
monkeys may be substituting for F-bomb) Also, wife of
Farewell My
Concubine (1993)
Monkey
character in opera.
Fiddler on
the Roof (1971)
Golde: "A poor girl without a dowry can't be so particular. You
want hair, marry a monkey."
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Fierce
Creatures (1997)
Film sequel to "A Fish Called Wanda." Features
ring-tailed lemurs.
Related link: Fierce Creatures Matinee Room