Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3471 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-11-08
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Animated, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 170 minutes

Synopsis
Monkey Dust is a cutting-edge comedy animation created by an award-winning team of writers and visualised by some of London's finest young animators. Set in a permanent urban nightmare, Monkey Dust is a nocturnal world and its satirical targets range across the whole spectrum of British society.

Monkey Dust also features occasional celebrity appearances from the likes of Robbie Williams, Eminem and Sven-Goran Eriksson, as well as a brief cameo from DJ Neil Fox, who dies a hideous death.

Customer Reviews

Unnervingly accurate
This is the most depressing programme ever made. Here is why you must buy it: the nightmarish portrayal of New-Labour Britain in Monkey Dust is so extremely shocking and ruthlessly bleak that you sometimes wish you could just dismiss it. Yet the way it manages to ring true throughout makes for deeply disturbing and always compelling viewing. The fact that it is consistantly hilarious as well is an incredible achievement. Monkey Dust demands repeat viewing and remains just as good each time. Absolutely essential. Come on BBC, put series 2 and 3 out now!

N.B. To the reviewer who said "the creator is seventy something", you're a fair way off - Harry Thompson sadly died last year at the age of 45.

Enter the world of Monkey Dust: if you dare....
Deep in a dark, nocturnal world lay the surreal goings-on of a quirky bunch of cartoom character. But these aren't your average cartoon characters, they're profoundly disturbing, violent and bizzaire. If you're scared of the dark, this comedy DVD isn't for you.

Monkey Dust is DEFINITELY not for the faint hearted or for those who take offence easily. You need to be pretty open minded to stomach Monkey Dust, you need to like your comedy satirical, dark and twisted and you need to like the idea of someone dying at least ten times an episode. If you think you can handle the above, you'll find the world of Monkey Dust like a second home.

This animated six part sketch show is marvellous and sick. It introduces a cavalcade of characters who you wouldn't want to meet in real life but love to watch on screen. There's Ivan Dobsky (the meat-safe murderer) and his space-hopper, Mr Hoppy. There's Jeff who struggles to come to terms with his sexuality, a foul-mouthed baby, a dreadful liar who interperets Lord of the Rings as daily life, the divorced/suicidal dad who feels that he is being pulled away from his young son and the Bloke Who Obviously Did It? Did what? Buy it and find out...

The majority of the sketches are brillinatly funny but as with any television sketch there are few weak sketches that don't cut the mustard, sorry in this case the skull. The extra's include a commentary by the writers and subtitles that tell you who animated it, wrote it and voiced it. A wonderful addition to any comedy collectors DVD shelf.

'And that is what really happened!'

Monkey Magic!
I first caught this on the box and thought it was absolutely amazing!

This is so sinister and dark - you laugh and wonder if you should really be laughing at such abjectly sad situations. Take the divorcees for example; a dad so much in love with his son, that his apparent rejection causes him to commit suicide - only for the son to then explain that he loves his dad and wants to stay with him (not knowing his dads brains are decorating the room next door!).

It is this twisted look at real life using animation that makes this one of those things that needs to be seen to appreciated.

The 'Meat Safe Murderer' and the 'Classically Trainee Actor' are my favourite sketches alongside the son and his dad.

Some people say this is sick and unfunny - those people just don't get it.