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Speaker 1: Great per flick with benow Well, at the risk of

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Speaker 1: sounding terribly shallow, he had THEO Jans because he's a

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Speaker 1: very adsome man. But I know nothing about this movie

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Speaker 1: you're reviewing, Ben.

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Speaker 2: The Monkey World. You'll be happy to know that you

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Speaker 2: don't just get one THEO James in this movie. He's

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Speaker 2: playing twins, so you get two of them. You get two.

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Speaker 2: So what's your favorite THEO James? He was in White

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Speaker 2: Load a Gentleman. The Gentleman. Yeah, the guy Richard maybe

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Speaker 2: spin off series. He's great, So I like him having

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Speaker 2: his own accent. Ye, he's a yank, you know what

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Speaker 2: I mean. So The Monkey is a horror movie. It's

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Speaker 2: an adaptation of a Stephen King short story from nineteen eighteen.

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Speaker 2: And now the long checkered history of Stephen King adaptations

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Speaker 2: has produced some amazing films that it is, like The

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Speaker 2: Shining Misery, and some that weren't horror because he does

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Speaker 2: other things as well, Shawshank, Redemption Stand behind Me. But

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Speaker 2: it was also produced many many duds, like quite quite

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Speaker 2: recently The Dark Tower. I still don't even know what

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Speaker 2: that movie was about. It was just so terrible. It

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Speaker 2: was supposed to be this whole franchise, but that just

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Speaker 2: died in the water when it was just a complete flop.

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Speaker 2: Children of the Corn back in the day, Children of

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Speaker 2: the Corn too. There's a lot of really bad movies.

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Speaker 2: Maybe that maybe the original it was good with Tim

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Speaker 2: Curry asias. Yeah, so there are some good ones. There

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Speaker 2: are some bad ones. But in the end I would

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Speaker 2: say The Monkey probably is one of the best of

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Speaker 2: the last few years.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: It's inspired by the old monkey Paw curse, you know,

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Speaker 2: like where you get the old story from from way

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Speaker 2: back in the day, probably eighteenth century, something like that,

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Speaker 2: like a mummified monkey paw. You get three wishes and

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Speaker 2: then but each wish comes with some sort of calamity

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Speaker 2: and you can't the messages. The messages, you know, you

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Speaker 2: better be careful what you wish forking right, And so

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Speaker 2: in this case those a monkey Paul. You've got a

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Speaker 2: toy monkey, one of those ones like the Juris Cell bunny.

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Speaker 2: Wind it up, bangs on the drum, and every time

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Speaker 2: you do that, it has supernatural powers that aren't really

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Speaker 2: explained that someone in the near vicinity, some random person

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Speaker 2: will be struck down. The gruesome the gruesome accident but

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Speaker 2: there's no predicting it, and so people you know, might

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Speaker 2: wind up the monkey and go, you know, kill me

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Speaker 2: arch enemy. No, you might lose your best mate or

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Speaker 2: something like that. This is no rhyme or reasonable, And

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Speaker 2: so the film opens with severances Adam Scott, who is

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Speaker 2: so fantastic. This cameo at the start is worth the

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Speaker 2: price of the mission alone. He comes in sort of

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Speaker 2: covered in blood, holding his toy monkey into a second

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Speaker 2: hand store, going, you've got to take this thing. And

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Speaker 2: then we get a little bit of a taste of

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Speaker 2: what the monkey does, and then we sort of fast

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Speaker 2: for a couple of years, and these twin boys who

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Speaker 2: were left fatherless after Adam Scott kind of disappears out

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Speaker 2: of the picture, they find this toy monkey in the

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Speaker 2: closet of their house. They start mucking around with it.

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Speaker 2: Then you start to really realize. They start to realize, ye, yes,

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Speaker 2: there's lots of we're not gonna win. I'm working around

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Speaker 2: here and so anyway, and then we start to realize

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Speaker 2: what is actually going on here. They go, oh, okay,

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Speaker 2: this is not good. There's some people dying in really

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Speaker 2: horrible ways. We don't want to go to any more. Funerals.

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Speaker 2: Let's throw this monkey down the well and that's the

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Speaker 2: end of it. Twenty five years later, these twin boys

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Speaker 2: have grown up to be to THEO James's and there's

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Speaker 2: a new kind of spait of mysterious accidents that start

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Speaker 2: to happen, and they go, hang in a minute, I

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Speaker 2: think someone's found this monkey. We need to find a

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Speaker 2: way to beat the monkey. And he did say Spain,

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Speaker 2: it's okay, yep so, and so that it unfolds from there,

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Speaker 2: and one of the THEO James's has his own son

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Speaker 2: by this point and an estranged relationship, and so he's

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Speaker 2: juggling that situation as well as trying to figure out

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Speaker 2: what's going on. You get a little a larger wood

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Speaker 2: cameo in here, as well as a stepdad who's a

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Speaker 2: fathering expert. Is just the biggest kind of pain in

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Speaker 2: the fact you can ever imagine. But the great thing

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Speaker 2: about this film it's directed by Osgode Perkins, who gave

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Speaker 2: us Long Legs last year. That really love that scary movie.

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Speaker 2: It was unsettling, haunt your dreams kind of material. In

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Speaker 2: this case, he's not. It's kind of a silly plot,

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Speaker 2: right like as a toy monkey that kills people for

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Speaker 2: reasons that you're you're not ever sure or why, and

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Speaker 2: so instead of taking it seriously, he plays it all

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Speaker 2: for jokes and that actually is quite effective. Like it's

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Speaker 2: kind of like Nightmare on Elm Street with Freddie. It's

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Speaker 2: kind of funny most of the time. You don't take

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Speaker 2: it seriously that the horror stuff, the gory stuff is

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Speaker 2: so over the top that you sort of find yourself

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Speaker 2: are covering your eyes and going oh no, but you

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Speaker 2: don't really ever take it that seriously, and so it's

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Speaker 2: a bit of fun from that perspective. And some of

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Speaker 2: the ways these poor people get knocked off by the monkey,

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Speaker 2: it's just like it's just it's it's just yeah, just

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Speaker 2: like each one just keeps escalating. So yeah, it's a

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Speaker 2: bit of fun, but it's it's you know, look, it's

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Speaker 2: not it's not high browse cinema. Take it too seriously.

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Speaker 2: Don't take it serious monkey business.

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Speaker 1: So how many not monkey man's are you giving it?

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Speaker 2: I'm going to give it three solid if you like this,

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Speaker 2: we're seeing a lot with Robbie Williams and exactly the monkey. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: lots of monkeys around. Ben o'she