{"id":2434,"date":"2025-02-21T21:54:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T05:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2025-02-21T21:54:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T05:54:51","slug":"movie-pass-adventures-the-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/21\/movie-pass-adventures-the-monkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Pass Adventures: The Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-monkey.webp\" alt=\"A long, thin image taken from a scene in The Monkey. Theo James' face, covered in blood except for two rings around his eyes, is in the center. Most of the image is the curtains behind him, also covered with blood.\" class=\"wp-image-2435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-monkey.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-monkey-300x38.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-monkey-768x96.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can&#8217;t imagine anyone wanting to live in Stephen King&#8217;s Maine. That place is scary&#8230; but it does give us some wacky movies. This is one of those movies that&#8217;s so violent and gory and goofy that it moves past horror and straight into cartoon. It&#8217;s not great, and it kind of fizzles at the end, but it&#8217;s a pretty fun ride. BONUS: features an Adam Scott cameo!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-monkey.jpg\" alt=\"The titular monkey from The Monkey, shown in three tones. Black with red highlights, with white teeth and eyes. His right arm is raised and his right hand holds a drumstick. The background is solid black.\" class=\"wp-image-2436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-monkey.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-monkey-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-monkey-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Turn the key and see what happens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is my second simian-themed movie of the year. I thought about basing the parody poster on one for Better Man, but those are all pretty boring so I went a different way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-monkey-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A parody poster for The Monkey based on the original poster for Toy Story.\" class=\"wp-image-2437\" style=\"width:680px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-monkey-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-monkey-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-monkey-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-monkey-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I guess I also could have used the poster for  The Tin Drum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you like toy monkeys, and you like ridiculous amounts of blood, then this is the film for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63],"tags":[229,241,78,240],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","tag-horror","tag-monkey","tag-movies","tag-stephen-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions\/2440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}