Monkey Business

1952

Action / Comedy / Sci-Fi

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 77% · 26 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 68% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 16110 16.1K

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Director

Howard Hawks Photo
Howard Hawks

Top cast

Marilyn Monroe Photo
Marilyn Monroe as Miss Lois Laurel
Dabbs Greer Photo
Dabbs Greer as Cabbie
Cary Grant Photo
Cary Grant as Dr. Barnaby Fulton
Harry Carey Jr. Photo
Harry Carey Jr. as Reporter
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885.8 MB
1280*942
English 2.0
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29.97 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 6
1.61 GB
1468*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
29.97 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 19

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by gbill-74877 7 / 10

Entertaining because of its star power

It's worth the price of admission to see Marilyn Monroe showing her leg to a nerdy Cary Grant early on, and then tool around with him in a sports car and go roller skating with him, which they do after he's taken a youth potion accidentally created by one of his lab chimps. As you might guess, there are some pretty silly things in the script, but it's a cute story, and to see Grant and Ginger Rogers carrying on as young adults and later children tickled me too. It seems to me that the film may have served as the inspiration for other films, like 'The Nutty Professor, and some of its content may have seemed fresher in 1952, but it's still entertaining because of this star power. In smaller parts, the performance from the chimpanzee is impressive, and I also liked child actor George Winslow, who deadpans his lines in that heavy voice of his. Lastly, it made me smile to hear Grant and Rogers alluding to rediscovering memorable nights of passion from when they were younger, in that restrained but sexy way of the period. There are some nice lines at the end too: "You're old only when you forget you're young. ... It's a word you keep in your heart, a light you have in your eyes, someone you hold in your arms."
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Reviewed by Steve-318 8 / 10

Give this one ape for effort

Thoroughly enjoyable comedy with Cary Grant as the absent-minded professor who's messing around looking for the fountain of youth. Ginger Rogers gets to dance a little without Fred Astaire plus demonstrate a wonderful comic style as she mixes it up with Marilyn Monroe. It's 1952 but you wouldn't know it (except for Marilyn's presence). Howard Hawks takes you back to the good old days when Hollywood demonstrated total mastery of time and space with the screwball comedy.

Along with monkeyshines and child actors, you really get a lot in this film: Grant and Rogers play off each other very nicely and the driving scene with Monroe and Grant is a classic. Adding to the hijinx is Charles Coburn, who always dominates the screen with his easy charm. I bet he loved chasing after Monroe with a spray bottle.

The movie holds up well over 50 years later which makes one wonder why Hollywood hasn't, cringe, chosen to ape the storyline for Jim Carrey or maybe Tom Hanks, who might be looking for a comic turn these days.

But then they remade Freaky Friday this summer, didn't they?

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