Monkey Reviews

I too remember dashing home from school to watch what is still one of my all time favourite programs.

The opening music sets the atmosphere perfectly and as far as the series goes, Monkey was both brilliant, funny, action packed, far fetched and joyous.

Monkey is what it is, a classic, even today it holds significantly more appeal than anything even dreamt up and put on the box.

The dubbing is fantastic, as is the music, the fighting and the comedy (of which there is loads), the extremely loose historical / mythological storylines all add up to make this a tmeless classic.
Consider that even after almost 30 years ( first produced in 1979 ) the programme has billions of fans around the world.

Just watch it !!!!

Monkey first appeared on our screens in the late 70s(according to the I love 70s series it was 1979 but my memory is not that precise). And Monkey was weird, I mean really weird. Let me try (emphasis on the word try) and explain what it was all about. Apparently Monkey is based on the writings of a 16th century Chinese chap who tried to ...  Read the complete review

Monkey was a programme that used to be shown on BBC2 on a Friday night. It was a Japanese programme dubbed into English, and was horrendously funny, even to a youngster like me. It was a story of a Buddhist priest (Tripitaka, who looked more like a girl than a boy) taking a journey to India to pick up some sacred scrolls. As it was a ...  Read the complete review

Monkey the cult classic back in the 70s on bbc2, i loved it one of the few programmes along with the water margin which was watchable despite very poor translations. Monkey is a stick weilding martial arts hero, who along with his aptly named companions pigsy and sea monster (cant remember his name sorry!!) accompany the priest tripitaka on ...  Read the complete review

Monkey is a programme that certainly made an impression on anyone who watched it.Not only is Monkey irrepressible, he's also unforgettable. Although the series is based on an ancient chinese story, this telling of the tales has it's tongue firmly placed in it's cheek. The characters are larger than life, sometimes literally so. ...  Read the complete review

Yes, I remember those days well, back in the 70s/80s when Monkey first hit our screens, along with The Water Margin. Japanese made (I think) and the story of how a young Buddhist monk (Tripitaka) seeks enlightment in the company of a disgraced god (Monkey), the commander of the Heavenly Guard (Pigsy) and the bald-headed one, who's name I can ...  Read the complete review

Browsing on the web a few months back, I was fast running out of ideas of things to look for. By chance I remembered a favourite old TV program and thought I'd look it up and see if it had a fan club or the likes. To my delight, I found out that not only was it on the net, I was informed that it is now being released on Video! Coming out ...  Read the complete review