"Funky Monkey" -- Zach's Take

This movie is a product. Nothing more. It's a coldly calculated piece of trash concocted by a bunch of marketing people. A by-product of quadrant-checking and buzzwords. A commodity produced by a cynical group of suits at Warner Bros.

And I laughed my ass off all the way through it.

You see, Funky Monkey (or as I like to call it, Jeffery Tambor and Gilbert Gottfried Have Gambling Debts to Pay) is a bold and daring exercise in unintentional anti-comedy.

Okay, okay, so maybe it's neither bold nor daring, but it is consistently laugh-out-loud funny. That is, if you're approaching it in the right mindset. The Homer Simpson mindset.

I wasn't laughing with the movie. I wasn't even laughing at the movie. I was laughing at the people who would laugh with the movie. The lowest common denominator. The Homer Simpsons of the world. All I could picture throughout the movie, whether it was the first time someone got kicked in the groin or the fifteenth time the monkey made a fart noise with his mouth, was Homer laughing hysterically and genuinely at the absurdity on display.

Picture every family comedy trope you can think of and this movie has it. From the aforementioned between-the-legs kick in the nuts shot, to the turning-the-blender-on-without-putting-the-lid-on gag, to the dimwitted villainous lackey duo, this movie has it all. It's like the screenwriters (yes, it took more than one person to write this movie) had a quota of idiotic gags to fulfill and they decided to go above and beyond.

But like I said, all you need to do to enjoy this movie is to imagine the kind of person who helped propel Epic Movie to box office success obnoxiously guffawing at every lame, tired joke. I guarantee you will be doing the same in no time (obnoxiously guffawing that is, not giving more money to the Epic Movie guys...hopefully).

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