In this curiosity piece, Ben Kingsley plays a sort of Pied Piper for the simian set. Unfortunately, there are too many monkeys and not enough good writers to save this odd farrago of a film.
A snake-killer by trade, Cunda (Ben Kingsley) makes a few extra bucks collecting insects and animals for a scientist who suggests that Cunda sell his monkeys in the "beeg ceety" (everyone in the film speaks with a thick accent except Kingsley, adding another layer of incomprehensibility to an
already strange movie). In order to raise the loot he needs to wed a pulchritudinous widow, Maria (Sylvia De Carvalho), Cunda heads for civilization with his chimps in tow. Along the w...
Released:
1991
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
93 mins