after a string of successful a man and his monkey film and which include the seminal every which way but loose and every which way you can and peter friend and the genre fell on hard time . in an effort to rejuvenate this once celebrated area and director frank marshall bring michael crichton acclaim novel to the big screen . think gorilla in the mist meet tron minus the box office clout of bruce boxleitner . this be one man doom love affair for his talk monkey . not help by bad accent ( tim curry struggle with a romanian ) and a baboon of a screenplay and hungry hippo and skydive primate and bruce campbell . ape sht .