Monkey Business

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Summary: Everyone gets to monkey around except Oxley
Review: A married scientist (Cary Grant) is trying to prefect a supplement that will make people feel younger. Unknown to anyone, an escapee chimp prefects it by accident. The concoction is placed in the bottles water dispenser. From there it is first assimilated by the scientist who dispenses with his glasses, obtains a racy car and the boss's secretary (Marilyn Monroe). Later experiments include the wife (Ginger Rogers) as the genuine pig. Eventually, a hatchet job peruses and the movie gets even stranger.

This is a very busy movie with no down time. There is lots of noise and action. You will not have to worry about falling asleep.

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Summary: Check The DVD Playback Before Purchase
Review: I purchased this movie on DVD and I had to return it to the store twice before getting a refund on it. Regarding defects, you name it, it has it! It has skipping, pixels showing up, and it's almost impossible to search the movie forwards or backwards because that's when most of the freezing happens. I would recommend having the sales associates play the DVD (if they're willing to do so, that is) and check for all the possible defects. I checked my DVD player with other movies to make sure, and all of them played back okay.

As for the movie itself, well, it's not in my list of movies that I would watch over and over. Once was enough for me!

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Summary: Bring Back "Monkey Business!"
Review: If you think screwball comedies went out with Pearl Harbor, it's well worth looking around for this 1952 comedy starring Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers (with Marilyn Monroe in a supporting role, tho' not co-starring, as the old VHS box might make one think). This engaging farce about a staid chemist nearing middle age who is accidentally "dosed" with a youth serum (to his wife's consternation) is great wacky fun and the comedy just spins further, and further and further out of control . . . in ways the audience will not anticipate but will surely enjoy.

I want to grandstand a little. Judging by the lack of current availability, this was probably a 20th Century-Fox release. Just like MGM, Fox had its own roster of contract players, including such versatile talents as Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell and Jeanne Crain (not to mention MM!). The studio cranked out tons of comedies, mostly B&W, during WWII thru the early fifties, and while none is "Bringing Up Baby," some of them get darn close. I myself could give five stars to such delights as "Rhubarb," "I Was a Male War Bride" "Everybody Does It," and the incomparable "A Letter to Three Wives," some of which are available, some aren't. Check out the Leonard Maltin guide or any other film-review encyclopedia you consider reliable and you'll see accolades! I don't know why these aren't coming out on disc/tape like the older stuff from Warners, MGM, Paramount, Universal, etc., but it's a shame because this "subgenre" deserves to be recognized and appreciated.

There are enough of us to make a "cult," and I bet the Fox films of the late Forties/early Fifties would make someone a handsome profit if re-released and marketed adequately.

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Summary: cute comedy
Review: MONKEY BUSINESS was a wonderful throwback to the screwball comedies of the 1930's. It boasts terrific comedic performances from the always-fantastic Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers and Marilyn Monroe in a fine supporting role.

Director Howard Hawk's puts the film into full-throttle for this hilarious romp about a scientist (Cary Grant - NORTH BY NORTHWEST, CHARADE) who invents a youth serum. When the serum is accidentally tipped into the watercooler, everyone seems to have 'monkey fever'! Ginger Rogers (KITTY FOYLE, TOP HAT) plays Grant's long-suffering wife, whose relationship is put to the test when both she and he are sent back to their rocky courtship, thanks to the mind-bending effects of the serum!

The film also features Charles Coburn, George "Foghorn" Winslow (who both co-starred with Marilyn Monroe in Howard Hawk's GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES the following year), Douglas Spencer (THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK), Esther Dale, Hugh Marlowe, Henri Letondal, Robert Cornthwaite and Larry Keating.

The DVD includes restoration comparisons, still gallery and the trailer. Available seperately or as part of the Marilyn Monroe Diamond Collection.

Rating:
Summary: cute comedy
Review: MONKEY BUSINESS was a wonderful throwback to the screwball comedies of the 1930's. It boasts terrific comedic performances from the always-fantastic Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers and Marilyn Monroe in a fine supporting role.

Director Howard Hawk's puts the film into full-throttle for this hilarious romp about a scientist (Cary Grant - NORTH BY NORTHWEST, CHARADE) who invents a youth serum. When the serum is accidentally tipped into the watercooler, everyone seems to have 'monkey fever'! Ginger Rogers (KITTY FOYLE, TOP HAT) plays Grant's long-suffering wife, whose relationship is put to the test when both she and he are sent back to their rocky courtship, thanks to the mind-bending effects of the serum!

The film also features Charles Coburn, George "Foghorn" Winslow (who both co-starred with Marilyn Monroe in Howard Hawk's GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES the following year), Douglas Spencer (THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK), Esther Dale, Hugh Marlowe, Henri Letondal, Robert Cornthwaite and Larry Keating.

The DVD includes restoration comparisons, still gallery and the trailer. Available seperately or as part of the Marilyn Monroe Diamond Collection.

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Summary: A lot of fun
Review: Not entertainig in its entirety if you ask me, but a lot of great moments. I can't forget the English movie dictionary by Halliwell's, presenting a sample of the dialogue: (Charles Coburn to Marilyn Monroe, playing his secretary):"Find someone to type this". Isn's it hilarious?? Just priceless

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Summary: Monkey Business
Review: Plot: Barnaby is in search of the elixir of youth. He is experimenting with his formula on chimps. One of the chimps gets out of its cage and starts playing with Barnaby's chemicals. When the chimp is about to be caught, he pours the mixture into a water cooler. Barnaby decides to test his formula on himself, and washes it down with a glass of water.....

This is Cary Grant's second and last movie with Ginger Rogers, the first being ONCE UPON A HONEYMOON in 1942. This is CG's 58th movie and his fifth movie being directed by Howard Hawks. Their relationship had started in 1938, with the production of BRINGING UP BABY. This movie has very true shades as BUB. Cary is the greatest of farceurs, lighting up the screen with hilarity and fun.

Cary plays Dr. Barnaby Fulton who has been working on a youth-restoring formula for several years. He has not had much success until one day a chimpanzee gets loose in the lab and accidentally concocts the exact formula Barnaby had been searching for.

No one knows that the chimp has put the formula in the water cooler (except the water tastes bitter), and everyone who drinks the water gets younger and younger. The chemical reaction is fun and explosive.

Finally, Barnaby decides that the formula has to go and tells his wife, Edwina (Ginger Rogers) of his new formula, "You're only old when you forget you're young," which obviously is the best philosophy for anyone to follow.

Cary makes acting look so easy; I envy him for that. When this film came out it was not a commercial success, but today it is known as a true classic. Just goes to show what time can do to put a new slant on things.

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Summary: Monkey Business
Review: Plot: Barnaby is in search of the elixir of youth. He is experimenting with his formula on chimps. One of the chimps gets out of its cage and starts playing with Barnaby's chemicals. When the chimp is about to be caught, he pours the mixture into a water cooler. Barnaby decides to test his formula on himself, and washes it down with a glass of water.....

This is Cary Grant's second and last movie with Ginger Rogers, the first being ONCE UPON A HONEYMOON in 1942. This is CG's 58th movie and his fifth movie being directed by Howard Hawks. Their relationship had started in 1938, with the production of BRINGING UP BABY. This movie has very true shades as BUB. Cary is the greatest of farceurs, lighting up the screen with hilarity and fun.

Cary plays Dr. Barnaby Fulton who has been working on a youth-restoring formula for several years. He has not had much success until one day a chimpanzee gets loose in the lab and accidentally concocts the exact formula Barnaby had been searching for.

No one knows that the chimp has put the formula in the water cooler (except the water tastes bitter), and everyone who drinks the water gets younger and younger. The chemical reaction is fun and explosive.

Finally, Barnaby decides that the formula has to go and tells his wife, Edwina (Ginger Rogers) of his new formula, "You're only old when you forget you're young," which obviously is the best philosophy for anyone to follow.

Cary makes acting look so easy; I envy him for that. When this film came out it was not a commercial success, but today it is known as a true classic. Just goes to show what time can do to put a new slant on things.

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Summary: Classic Comedy Starring the Silver Screens Greatest Legends
Review: This hilarious slapstick comedy stars Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, and Marilyn Monroe, 3 of the Silvers Screen's greatest stars. Cary Grant, a doctor, develops a syrum that makes him younger. He tests it out and goes for a spin with his young, beautiful secretary, Marilyn Monroe! Later, his wife, Ginger Rogers tries it out, and finally, Grant and Rogers are like 5 year olds. Ginger is great when she goes into her "childlike temper tantrums" and in one scene, after the syrum has worn off on her, she finds a baby, and thinks it's her husband! This stuff is timeless--it was on the American Film Institute's 500 List of the greates comedies, and it is timeless, making it one of my favorite movies.

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Summary: You'll laugh out loud!
Review: This is a funny film that stars Cary Grant as a scientist trying to discover a youth serum. What results is a hilarious comedy of errors when a lab monkey discovers the serum and dumps it into the water cooler. When people drink from the cooler, it has a strange effect on them. This is a great film that stars the talented Ginger Rogers as the scientist's wife and Marilyn Monroe as a secretary. Watching this film kind of reminds one of the screwball comedies that were a signature of the 1930's. Be sure to see this one!