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And whats most astonishing of all may be the fact that the movie works.
You will believe a heterosexual ape can find community in a human gay club.
And you might cry when the ape does inner-child work in rehab.
But maybe you need more convincing.
Even if hes a monkey.
Even if that monkey gets tattoos that peek through his monkey fur.
26 seconds:First time someone says fuck.
2 minutes:A smoking child tells the monkey, also a child, hes a nobody.
He will say this line 11 more times; I counted.
9 minutes:The monkeys dad walks out on the family.
12 minutes, 39 seconds:The monkey is now 15 and has a perm.
16 minutes:The monkey auditions for Take That.
26 minutes:Take Thats manager changes the monkeys name from Robert to Robbie.
The band performs at a gay club.
31 minutes:A girl gives the monkey a hand job in public, thinking hes bandmate Gary Barlow.
32 minutes:Take That gets a record deal because hand-job girls dad runs RCA.
33 minutes:The monkey hops around London on a pogo stick.
He is ironing his hair straight now.
34 minutes:The monkey humps the face of an elderly lady on a mobility scooter.
Dad then scolds the monkey for being on Prozac.
How can you not know who you are when there are hundreds of people screaming your name?
he asks the monkey.
50 minutes:The monkey buckles a watermelon safely into his car.
54 minutes:The monkey drowns in a sea of paparazzi (metaphor).
55 minutes:The monkey wears a mouse costume.
But hes not a mouse, hes a monkey!
59 minutes:The monkey proposes to All Saints Nicole Appleton in their candle-filled apartment.
Because he is a monkey, the bleach job covers all his fur, from head to toe.
1 hour, 5 minutes:Liam Gallagher jump scare!
1 hour, 15 minutes:The monkey plays bongos like Jack Quaid inOppenheimer.
1 hour, 25 minutes:The monkeys dad suggests drinking as a way to solve his problems.
1 hour, 27 minutes:The monkey says hes slept with four of the five Spice Girls.
1 hour, 40 minutes:The monkey finally confronts his dad for being awful.
1 hour, 49 minutes:While playing Knebworth (real?
), the monkey imagines his inner critic as all his past selves.
The Other Monkeys fight him in a giant battle royale.
One monkey hasno skinand wields a giant mace; its veryDark Souls.
1 hour, 53 minutes:The monkey kicks heroin.
1 hour, 54 minutes:The monkey attends an AA meeting.
Im unevolved, he shares.
1 hour, 55 minutes:The monkey gives himself an emotionally significant buzz cut.
But unlike when he went blond, he doesnt shave his whole body.
1 hour, 58 minutes:The monkey does the ninth step of a 12-step program, making amends.
2 hours, 2 minutes:The monkey duets with his dad onstage at the Royal Albert Hall.
He makes peace with his inner-critic monkeys, and I cried a third time????
2 hours, 7 minutes:The monkey says the last line of the film, Fuck yourselves.
