
“More fun than a barrel of teenagers!”
College whiz-kid Merlin Jones concocts a method for teaching advanced information to a chimpanzee, then creates a flying machine of his own design, ultimately raising havoc on the campus.
Release Date: 8/18/1965
Runtime: 87 minutes
Languages: English
Director: Robert Stevenson
00Companies: Walt Disney Productions
Countries: United States of America
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Slow and formulaic, it does at least have an amusing eventual pay-off. <em>'The Monkey’s Uncle'</em> is a sequel that never needed to be made. It isn't an awful film at all but struggles in a similar way as <em>'The Misadventures of Merlin Jones'</em> does, just without the promising beginning. The premise is dull, there is minor intrigue in the Darius Green III (Arthur O'Connell) plot but everything that builds up to it is uninteresting and mostly predictable. Tommy Kirk (Merlin) and Annette Funicello (Jennifer) are solid, but the performance of Leon Ames (Holmsby) comes across more sillier than in the 1964 production. Disney continue to be iffy with their live-action sequels.

Tommy Kirk
Merlin Jones

Annette Funicello
Jennifer

Leon Ames
Judge Holmsby

Arthur O'Connell
Darius Green III

Frank Faylen
Mr. Dearborne

Leon Tyler
Leon

Brian Wilson
Self - The Beach Boys

Carl Wilson
Self - The Beach Boys

Dennis Wilson
Self - The Beach Boys

Al Jardine
Self - The Beach Boys

Mike Love
Self - The Beach Boys

Norman Grabowski
Norman
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