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Subway Monkey Hour (2002)

★★ — Subway Monkey Hour (2002)

Tom Green was arguably at the peak of his cultural notoriety around this period, his self-titled MTV show having run from 1999 to 2000 and his feature directorial debut Freddy Got Fingered arriving in 2001 to baffled, largely hostile reviews. Subway Monkey Hour is a 50-minute filmed stunt project shot in Japan, following Green loose on the streets, in shops, and (as the title suggests) on the Tokyo subway system. It sits somewhere between a concert film and a prank special, and belongs to that brief early-2000s moment when extreme, confrontational comedy of the Green and Jackass variety was genuinely mainstream, before the format burned itself out. No conventional studio was involved, and it has the rough, low-budget feel of a vanity project captured on the fly.

As a child I absolutely found this hilarious. As an adult... it's just OK. Some parts are funny but others are just being a nuisance lol

Rating: ★★ | Year: 2002 | Watched: 2025-07-20

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