Highly unusual and no less highly unfunny comedy of Big Themes: animal vs. human, nature vs. civilization, id vs. superego. An ape woman (Patricia Arquette), hairy-chested at the age of twelve, a Queen Kong sideshow act at twenty, a reclusive nature writer as a young adult (best-seller: Fuck Humanity), seems the perfect match for a Kipling-esque wild child (Rhys Ifans) raised by chimps, but by then she's already matched up with, and molded to, a pencil-necked pointy-headed scientist (Tim Robbins) who uses words like "behoove" and "ergo" in conversational speech, and teaches table manners to lab rats: the film's funniest image, worthy of a wincing smile. Ho-hum encore for the writer of Being John Malkovich, Charlie Kaufman. The director of that overvalued item, Spike Jonze, takes refuge here in the producer credits, allowing Frenchman Michel Gondry to face the rotten tomatoes. (2002) — Duncan Shepherd
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