Monkeys, Go Home!
by Andrew V. McLaglen
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Actor: Bernard Woringer, Cl?ment Harari, Dean Jones, Maurice Chevalier, Yvette MimieuxDirector: Andrew V. McLaglen
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-05-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Movie Reviews of Monkeys, Go Home!
Movie Review: Monkeys Meet Mimieux
Summary: 3 Stars
Dean Jones was a Disney staple throughout the 1960s and 1970s, appearing in numerous comedies. This movie was one of Jones's first Disney movies. As a comedy this movie is relatively light, with most of the humor coming near the end of the movie.
Hank Dussard (Jones) has inherited a small farm in France with 480 olive trees. In typical American fashion, Dussard believes that he can make a decent living from so many olive trees. In a Disney movie nothing is ever simple, and it turns out that the cost of labor makes olive farming an expensive proposition. Most people who pick olives for a living use their large families to do so. Jones, a bachelor, has no such advantage, though local priest Father Sylvain (Maurice Chevalier, in his last movie appearance) keeps trying to fix him up with local beauty Maria Riserau (Yvette Mimieux, in one of her earliest roles).
Dussard was in the United States Air Force, where he trained monkeys for space flight. Now the monkeys have been retired as the United States has changed to manned space missions. Dussard was able to purchase the monkeys from the Air Force with the intent of using them to pick olives. The scene is set for a series of confrontations between a pair of local socialist leaders and Dussard.
I found the funniest portions of the movie to be in the last half hour. Up to that point there were a few humorous scenes, but the real laughs are near the end. This movie was relatively lightweight even by Disney standards, and I suspect this movie had a low budget. I personally consider this movie family friendly though at least one other reviewer has objected to a scene early in the movie where the butcher, who had romantic aspirations, kissed Maria without her consent. Maria strenuously objected to the kiss and I think most viewers will realize the scene was set up to create a false impression with Dussard and not to be funny.
I have never thought that Dean Jones was a very good actor. He usually plays a straight man for everyone else around him, and so he does here. However, Yvette Mimieux is charming and sweet and Maurice Chevalier is excellent, as always. While this movie is unlikely to make anyone's "best of" list, it has enough sweetness and charm that I like to watch it when I am looking for a fun movie that takes little thought to enjoy.
Viewers will have to consider that this movie was made in 1967 and our culture and our standards have changed since then. Perhaps this movie might provide a good opportunity to discuss the changes that have occurred in our society in the last forty years, assuming that someone would want to get into that level of philosophy while watching a lightweight Disney movie.
Summary of Monkeys, Go Home!
Henry Dussard (Dean Jones), a young American, inherits a picturesque but badly neglected olive farm in southern France and is determined to make it operational again despite cautionary advice from the local priest (Maurice Chevalier) and a pretty villager (Yvette Mimieux). Desperate for laborers, the inventive Dussard turns to the zaniest crew of olive pickers ever recruited ... four mischievous monkeys! As former members of an Air Force space team, these intelligent chimps quickly pick up on their new responsibilities ... but prove to have a turbulent effect on the local townspeople. Endless hilarity results in this slapstick family comedy!Comedy DVD Video
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