
Deep in Africa's exotic Momba-Zomba Land, young David Menden-Hall (Over the Top) befriends a mischievous little chimpanzee--only to discover the critter can talk! Soon, his friends Joe (Dom DeLuise) and Mozambo (Jimmie Walker) are going ape trying to save the chatty chimp after he's sold to the circus by crooked police chief Herbert Lom (The Pink Panther)! It's one cliff-hanger after another as the three friends embark on a zany, slapstick safari into non-stop monkeyshines!... (Full plot summary below)
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Deep in Africa's exotic Momba-Zomba Land, young David Menden-Hall (Over the Top) befriends a mischievous little chimpanzee--only to discover the critter can talk! Soon, his friends Joe (Dom DeLuise) and Mozambo (Jimmie Walker) are going ape trying to save the chatty chimp after he's sold to the circus by crooked police chief Herbert Lom (The Pink Panther)! It's one cliff-hanger after another as the three friends embark on a zany, slapstick safari into non-stop monkeyshines!
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| User ReviewMatthew Mthis movie was really bad but really good in a way. its hard to explain it was so bizarre and it tried to be many things at once and failed miserably. the soundtrack was surprisingly good but it didn't fit the film at all. I don't know its such a strange movie |
| User ReviewLouis DCritically acclaimed auteur, Boaz Davidson, sets the standard for commentary regarding both animal cruelty as well as racial politics in an impoverished Africa. Dom DeLuise demonstrates his strengths an actor through his diverse tone of voice (angry whilst simultaneously loveable). My African Adventure, more commonly known as Going Bananas, furthers itself as a cinematic achievement through the inclusion of supernatural elements, when Bonzo the monkey develops human speech. A must-see that will leave you in a state of absolute awe. |
| User ReviewOtto TI practically don't remember any of the story. Saw it when I was a kid. Monkey was great. |
| User ReviewRichard DDom 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. |
| User ReviewKeith PI discovered it on ThisTV. I've seen my share of crappy movies. Bad dramas make me laugh. Bad comedies make me cringe. "Going Bananas" isn't different, rife with painful racial stereotypes about Africans, wacky sound effect overdose, & a frightening costumed chimp. It's the type of awful cinema that's best stumbled upon a free TV channel, not sought after on streaming. |