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‘The Monkey’ Review: A Toy Monkey Heralds Over-the-Top Deaths in Osgood Perkins’ Trivially Snarky, Ham-Handed Follow-Up to ‘Longlegs’
A toy monkey heralds a series of over-the-top deaths in Osgood Perkins' trivially snarky, ham-handed adaptation of a Stephen King story.
In the opening scene, which sets the tone (broad, antic, grotesque, badly lit), an airline pilot (Adam Scott), his cap and uniform streaked with blood, enters a pawn shop with a wind-up-doll monkey he wants to sell. By the time a character named Uncle Chip (played by the director) is introduced, only to die by being trampled by a stampede of wild horses, it starts to feel like we’re watching the kill-by-numbers version of baroque calamity. The two central characters, a mild bespectacled middle-school geek named Hal and his hateful abusive bully of a twin brother, Bill (both are played by Christian Convery), discover the monkey sealed away in a round box.
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