Going Bananas

A good friend of mine one said: "A monkey is funny, anytime, anywhere." There is one exception to this: GOING BANANAS. It is quite simply the WORST MOVIE I have ever seen. It's worse than PLAN 9, worse than THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS. It is TERRIBLE. The talking monkey gag gets old after about three minutes, and believe me that's all there is. Make sure you have a bunch of people around to revive you after you go into TOXIC SHOCK from GOING BANANAS, the worst movie ever.

This movie was heartfelt, hilarious, and above all monkyishaus. In fact it was so good that my son couldn't get enough of it.

Even if you get a kick out of all those terrible movies Israeli producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus did in the 80s, you'll probably still find GOING BANANAS tough going. Man, this is one BAD movie. There's nothing worse than an unfunny comedy. There are NO laughs in this movie. Not one. Too add insult to injury, everyone in the movie acts like a moron. Why do we want to watch a movie where everyone is a grating idiot? And despite actually filming this movie in Africa, almost all the movie looks like it was reproduced on a Hollywood back lot. I remember when this movie was released (direct-to-video - it was even too bad for Cannon to theatrically release!), an ad appeared in magazines for children - where all the "review blurbs" were provided by kids, and not actual reviewers! "The monkey was so funny!" said one kid. I hope I never have to meet that now grown-up kid.

I was watching TV one day with a friend and we caught the last twenty minutes of "Going Bananas." Believe me when I say it was enough to get a good judgment of the film. The first scene that I saw was the monkey, the kid, the fat guy, and the black guy who looked like Dave Chappelle, flying around in a crop duster thousands of feet in the air. While everyone else was solemn about the journey, the monkey seemed to be on some kind of drug binge where he kept shouting something that resembled the English word faster. They then landed on a twenty yard long dock in Africa. After a heart felt goodbye where the monkey cried (Hahahaha), the "villains" of the film appeared. They were tearing complete ass in their vintage Cadillac when the evil monkey took an Air Jordan leap form the dock onto the boat that was sailing away a clean 40 yards away and made them sink their beautiful car into the Pacific Ocean. After seeing this film, I have a new purpose in life; to find the midget who played the monkey and stab him in the eye with a fountain pen.

i am one who has watched "Going Bananas", and frankly i didn't think it was awful!!!! it may not have been the best comedy in the world I agree, but when children watch it as I have, they do not understand a better comedy, but simply enjoy the activities of the monkey which I am sure puts a smile on their face. I too have laughed at the simple gestures, sounds, and of course majority of the skits. In truth a lot of people may find it awful because compared to so many movies that are made now, its screen looks generic.. It looks like you made it in the back yard, but honestly a movie started somewhere, and somehow, and what do you expect? it was a movie made a long time ago!