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Dire children's movie that contains every clich� in the book, 6 July 2003
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bob the moo from Birmingham, UK
Jack Cooper is a pitcher on a minor league baseball team, hoping for a crack
at the majors. Sadly his pitching, so perfect in practice, is way off in
the games. Things get worse for him when the team drafts in a new mascot �
a monkey, Ed, and Cooper is selected to room with him. However Ed turns out
to much more valuable to both the team and Cooper.
This film was shown in the UK at 11:30 at night! This was why I had taped
it as I assumed it was more for adults than children, after all Clint
Eastwood had done a couple of films with a monkey in it � so why not?
Watching I was left baffled as to why it was on so late at night when
clearly the only people who would want to see it are children who will laugh
at the sight of a monkey eating ice cream and dressing up. The plot is
pointless here and no child would care anyway � if you can't guess what will
happen at the end then you are a fool! Will Cooper ever pitch again? What
side will the coin fall on? Will Cooper and Ed bond? All these are givens
and there is no enjoyment from watching the plot unfold exactly as you know
it would.
While we're talking about lazy writing, how about the fact that every scene
is a clich�. We have the monkey dressing up and causing mayhem etc � every
scene feels like it is a template to which a baseball film has been applied!
None of it is funny (for adults anyway) and must of it is just puerile � I
laughed once and half-laughed another time. The laugh was Cooper saying
`oh, I'm gonna spank that monkey' and the half was Ed watching TV and seeing
the episode of Friends with a monkey in it. Other than this there is
nothing.
Part of the film's problem is that Ed looks like two things � and neither of
them is a likeable monkey. First he never for once looks or moves like
anything other than a guy in a monkey suit. Secondly his face and his
expressions make him look like a slightly crazy old man � I wondered if
children would take to this character or be slightly freaked out by him.
Matt LeBlanc plays a character in the mould of Joey � but without the good
writers to support him. He plays second fiddle to a monkey and you can see
that the confidence and comfort he enjoys in Friends, is absent here. How
people like Cobb, Warden and Caviezel must feel watching this is anyone's
guess � I suppose they were looking at it being a really big kids movie with
the star of Friends, how could they lose?
Overall I found this a rather dire experience. Ed has no personality and
looks really creepy and the comedy and plot are both as unimaginative as
you'd expect them to be. To be a good kids' film this needed to have a bit
of spark to it � instead it brings to mind the fading embers on a dying
fire.
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