Review of Going Bananas (1987) by Richard D — 16 Mar 2018
Dom DeLuise and Cannon-stand-by-kid-of-this-era David Mendenhall go on a trip to Africa. Mendenhall is the son of a US senator ... DeLuise is looking after him on the trip. (First problem with this film .
.. a senator trusts the welfare of his son to Dom DeLuise) They meet their guide Jimmy Walker, and go gallivanting about the African wilderness until they encounter a friendly monkey played by Deep Roy in the ugliest monkey suit imaginable.
It turns out this monkey can talk (no, I have no clue why) and then lots of unfunny crap happens. God damn I hate this film. At first it's just unfunny and more than a little racist, then the monkey enters the picture and it's painfully unfunny, fairly racist and full of annoying monkey shrieks.
When I say this movie is racist, I am not applying modern standards to film from the 80's. This film is racist by the standards of the 80's. In fact, it plays exactly like a cheap, unfunny comedy from the 40's.
It would have been a bad movie then ... in the late 80's, it's abominable. The saddest thing about this film is that Herbert Lom is in it.
This review of Going Bananas (1987) was written by Richard D on 16 Mar 2018.
Going Bananas has generally received negative reviews.
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