Minhas Aventuras na África

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!

"Going Bananas" is one of the worst comedies ever made. It has not one laugh in it. Not one. At all! It just meanders on endlessly for 95 minutes and goes nowhere. I've seen "ER" episodes with more laughs than this.

What a waste of comic talent. This has Dom DeLuise ("The 12 Chairs", "Blazing Saddles" "Silent Movie"), Jimmy Walker ("Good Times) and Herbert Lom (Dreyfus from "The Pink Panther" series). You might ask me, "Bill, how can a film with those three be bad?" Watch this movie and find out.

They don't even take advantage of the premise: a safari. I'm sure there are many comic possiblities in this. But a safari film can also be a thrilling adventure like Cornel Wilde's great "The Naked Prey". "Going Bananas" fails on that level also. The most threatening thing that happens in this: a chase in the circus. OOOOHHHH! I'M SCARED!

"Going Bananas" was apparently so bad that it wasn't even released theatrically. Instead, it was released straight to tape. I'm not sure which is worse: charging people $5 or $20 to view this travesty. Even worse than that were the ads: quotes (supposedly) from children who have viewed the film. Brother, they must have been on Ritalin because any normal child would hate this, just like my family did. Roger Ebert often says that a bad movie should be cut up into something the poor can use. My suggestion for "Going Bananas": could be useful to even out short legs on a table or stool.

no stars out of 4 stars

No laughs? What about the part where Bonzo (the monkey) is under the table and keeps snatching the pieces of cake from the patrons at the restaurant? Before the waiter can set down another plate, Bonzo has devoured it! Cut to a facial shot of Bonzo under the table cloth covered in cake!! Tell me, who could resist wetting their pants at such a thing? And the ensuing restaurant fight, where we have the joy of seeing Ben and Bonzo smash people at random with bottles!

Whoever thought this movie was not funny must have been watching with their eyes closed and cotton in their ears. Just the scenes of intimacy between Ben and Bonzo that bordered on homosexual (bestial?) were enough to make the film hilarious, especially when Bonzo is trying to sing Ben back to health in the hospital.

Not to mention the cruel and sadistic humor of the monkey, who is seen repeatedly hitting his "friends" Ben, the boy, and the others, and breaking out into insane laughter.

One must see the strange and twisted side of Going Bananas to see the humor. So I suggest, watch the movie again. It is a classic. If you think of the sheer cruelty of Dom Deluise taunting a monkey with a banana, only to let him have it if he says "banana!" It is hysterical! Of course poor Dom had no idea the monkey would do it, so imagine what kind of pathetic mindstate he was in! Locked in a jail in Africa, and rather than prayer, diplomacy, critical thinking, whatever...instead of trying to get himself out of this dillema...he resolves to sit back on his haunches and amuse himself by taunting a monkey with a banana. Excellent!

I give Bonzo and Going Bananas 14 MILLION stars and 763,000 THUMBS WAY UP!!! BONZO FOR PRESIDENT!!! BONZO LOVES BEN!!!

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.

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