Welcome back to ZooFlix Movies, where we peel back the wildest cinematic cages and poke the beasts inside. Today’s subject? Terry Gilliam’s chaotic, grimy sci-fi masterpiece Twelve Monkeys — a time-bending, sanity-shredding journey packed with cages, zoos, and, of course, some mad monkeys. 🐒
You can stream this dystopian classic on Peacock or rent it across all major platforms.
Time to let our two wildest critics loose — Ricky the Reel Raccoon leads the charge, with Fifi Le Film Frenchie hot on his tail.
🦝 Ricky’s Review – A Broken Clockwork Jungle
Right outta the gate, lemme say: Twelve Monkeys isn’t clean. It’s diseased, dirty, and absolutely beautiful in the most garbage-dump raccoon kind of way. 🗑️ And honestly? That’s exactly why it rules.
Bruce Willis as James Cole brings pure wounded animal energy. He’s a guy constantly getting yanked through time like a raccoon trapped in a laundry chute. One minute he’s dodging scientists, the next he’s face-down in 1990’s Philly with drool on his chin.
Classic lines? Oh, we got classics:
“I am insane, and you are my insanity.”
And the absolute heartbreaker: “All I see are dead people.”
(Yeah, The Sixth Sense wasn’t the first time Bruce said something chilling.)
The world Gilliam drops us into is pure panic attack energy. Pipes hissing, cages rattling, everyone shouting. It’s like someone turned a zoo into a time machine and hit the ‘chaos’ button.
Cole’s doomed memory of watching the airport shooting as a kid? Absolutely brutal. You feel it building, scene after scene, until fate just stomps all over your tail. No escape. No reset button. Just pure inevitability. 🐾
🗑️ Ricky’s Rating: 5 Trash Cans
A grimy, gorgeous fever dream with teeth. Smells bad. Feels worse. I loved it.
🐶 Fifi’s Review – Bananas and Madness, But Make It Fashion
Darling, Twelve Monkeys is utter, delicious madness, and nobody plays it better than Brad Pitt as Jeffrey Goines. This isn’t your typical pretty-boy Pitt. This is full gremlin-mode Pitt, eyes bugging, hands twitching, rants firing off like a raccoon stuck in a philosophy lecture. 🎯
Classic Pitt quotes that made me spill my espresso:
“There’s no right, there’s no wrong, there’s only popular opinion!”
And the perfect zoo riot starter: “The system is collapsing!” 🐒
Pitt earned his first Oscar nomination for this role, and it shows. He’s not chewing scenery — he’s swallowing it whole and belching up existential dread.
The animal imagery in this film? To die for. Monkeys break loose, lions wander empty cities, humans hide underground like scared meerkats. It’s a world where the cages have been swapped, and Gilliam’s vision captures that surreal disaster with every tilted frame and grimy shadow.
And that ending… oh, the tragedy! Darling, it’s a closed loop, a perfect ouroboros, a snake devouring its own tail. And we poor creatures just keep running in circles, thinking we’re free.
🐾 Fifi’s Rating: 5 Paw Prints
Mad, mesmerizing, and full of the kind of existential chaos that makes me want to wear a tiny designer straitjacket.
📢 Final Thoughts – Cages We Built Ourselves
Twelve Monkeys is messy, hypnotic, and heartbreaking — a ride through madness where the monkeys might just have had it right all along. Ricky and Fifi agree: this isn’t just sci-fi, it’s a gut punch in a burlap sack full of squirrels.
📢 Now streaming on Peacock or rentable on all major platforms.
Suit up, strap in, and bring bananas. Lots of bananas.
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