This week in Netflix

May 19, 2008 on 3:20 pm | In Movies, Netflix |

Every week, the DVD-through-the-mail site Netflix announces new DVDs for rental. Most are films that never got a theatrical release. Ethan Kaye brings you This Week In Netflix, the most inexplicable actual description of an actual film actually posted by the Netflix staff.

This week?

Who’s Your Monkey?
In one night, childhood buddies Mark (Scott Grimes), Bobby (Jason London), Laith (Scott Michael Campbell) and Hutto (David DeLuise) discover how far they’ll go for friendship in this award-winning dark comedy. When Mark reaches an emotional and professional dead zone, the others try to cheer him up. But what begins as a simple night out mushrooms into a madcap adventure to bust an animal porn ring and dispose of the body of a crystal meth dealer.

There’s a LOT going on in this film. So much, in fact, that the attractive girl with the monkey isn’t even mentioned in the Netflix description. That’s how much is packed into this 86 minutes. Girl, monkey, animal porn ring, character development of four childhood buddies, dead crystal meth dealer, Mark reaching an emotiona/professional dead zone, friends’ plot to make Mark feel better. IN 86 MINUTES. That includes credits, people, both opening and closing. This is like the Nutrageous of movies.

As always, I have to say that I haven’t seen this movie. It seems to have a lot going against it, seeing that 86 minutes is an extraordinarily short amount of time to develop any of these plots adequately. Your typical body disposal comedy, say, Men at Work, is over an hour and a half, and that doesn’t even have an animal porn ring plot.

Then again, a typical evening can have a lot happen in it. Last night, for instance, I saw a half-hour sketch comedy show, ate pad thai with my girlfriend, watched an episode of Boston Legal, and then read a JSA trade paperback. It took a few hours and consisted of multiple events. That’s four separate things in one evening - is it so strange of me to question the combination of boys’ night out/animal porn ring/dead meth dealer disposal/something to do with a girl and monkey?

No, it probably isn’t. On the same night you find a dead crystal meth dealer, you probably won’t be busting up an animal porn ring. I mean, each one of those can suck up your evening pretty fast, but together? Yeah, I’m not suspending disbelief that far.