Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Overrated and overhyped

Highly Overrated But Still Good

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

'Monkey Business' is typical Howard Hawks' screwball comedy that unfortunately starts to show it's age. When it comes to slapstick comedy then Howard Hawks is one of the finest in that genre, but 'Monkey Business' might not be his greatest anymore, especially compared to 'His Girl Friday' which is maintained it's wit and sharpness besides all the slapstick, and compared to 'Bringing Up Baby' it feels too repetitive. Cary Grant is typically charming and his comedic timing is spot on. Together with Ginger Rogers, whose transitions into teenage girl were just adorable, these two compose a lovely couple whose adventures you follow on the edge of your seat.With other two movies I mentioned 'Monkey Business' offers many chuckles and laugh and guaranteed cure for depression.

I found this movie on Netflix streaming movies. I happen to be a Chemist and that didn't help, because the Chemistry displayed here was very far from what might happen in a real Chemistry research lab. Anyway, to the story. As the movie starts and his wife is trying to get him out of the house, he is acting like he might be mentally challenged, but he is acting the part of an absent-minded scientist, deep in thought. Cary Grant is intelligent and inventive Chemist Dr. Barnaby Fulton. He is working on what could be the invention of the ages, a formula that would arrest aging, and perhaps even reverse it.The title has two meanings. Barnaby's lab is using chimpanzees, which they often referred to as "the monkeys", it was part of their research business. But the title also refers to the human "monkey business" that the characters seem to get into, over and over.Ginger Rogers is just great as the wife, Mrs. Edwina Fulton, and always very understanding and forgiving of Barnaby's foibles. Marilyn Monroe is also in it, as a typist who can't type, but her character introduces some additional high jinks. SPOILERS: Make no mistake, this is a slapstick comedy. Not only is Barnaby having trouble perfecting his formula, one day a chimp lets himself out of the cage, and proceeds to randomly pick up chemicals on the lab bench and mix them. The chemical mix ends up in the water cooler, and turns out to have the effect Barnaby was searching for. But with no witnesses and no idea what had happened, the chimp became an unwitting inventor of a technology that no one could duplicate. All the better for humanity, I suppose!

One or two steps above awful best describes this 1952 comedy farce. Despite a wonderful cast, the writing certainly does this ridiculous film in. Chemist Cary Grant is married to economics major Ginger Rogers.While experimenting with a formula, Grant takes some of it and the supposed hilarity begins. Ditto for Rogers taking it as well and the couple revert to silliness, talking about past men and ladies they knew and all other sorts of nonsense.The best part is probably where Grant, under the influence of the chemical, takes Charles Coburn's secretary for a whirlwind ride. It was said that both director Howard Hawkes and Grant saw no talent in Monroe. Of course they didn't. There was no picture here to speak of.The ending sequence with the baby is even more ridiculous and the only part that was also good was when The End appeared on the screen. Hopeless.

A monkey invents a potion that rejuvenates humans and plops it into the office water machine in a science lab. Meanwhile, chemist Barnaby (Cary Grant) has been trying to develop a youth formula for years. He drinks his latest formula but it tastes a bit off so he goes to the water cooler. Yep - he takes a drink of water and ....woah ........what's happening..? Well, he's the monkey's first victim. He starts acting 'youthful' and everyone thinks he has succeeded in inventing Life's Youth Juice. We follow Barnaby and his wife Edwina (Ginger Rogers) as they inadvertently keep consuming the monkey formula every time that they take a drink of water from the water cooler.....will the monkey get credit for the invention? The film has a cast that excites on paper but it doesn't live up to expectations. The whole beginning sequence drags - the first 15 minutes should have been thrown out. The cast are all likable but Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers are made to act out scenes that could be over in a couple of minutes as opposed to 'let's drag it out' for 10 minutes. However, opposed to the tedious, drawn out slapstick rubbish that we are offered, we are also given moments of comic genius. George Winslow, who plays one of the kids, provides laugh-out-loud entertainment with every word of dialogue that he utters. Genius.Overall, the film entertains. It has peaks and troughs. Ginger Rogers displays good balancing skills while balancing a cup of water on her forehead as she stands up and lies down and goes back to standing position. Cool trick. Cary Grant is occasionally funny, Marilyn Monroe (Lois) is also good - she's not so irritating and baby talking as usual - while Charles Coburn (Oxley) is good value as always. Check out his request for his secretary, Marilyn, to pass on the simple duty of typing to someone else other than her.It's worth watching if you can get over the crappy beginning. I don't particularly care for kids in films but George Winslow rules.