Artist: Black Eyed Peas
Album Title: Monkey Business
Label: A&M/Universal
Bones:
Summary: I know, heifer cow is better than none, but this is no time for puns.
Reviewed By: 'Disco' Stu McPhee

Monkey Business was also the name of a Marx Brothers film, their third in fact. You can tell. While it was the first of their films to have a script not adapted from their stage shows, it is by far their wackiest picture ever made. In fact what little story there is (involving the boys being hired by competing mobsters) only gets in the way of their misadventures as stowaways on a cruise liner. Hilarious scenes abound amidst the frenetic chaos. Who can forget how all four brothers attempt to disembark the ship by each pretending to be Maurice Chevalier?

What does this have to do with the Black Eyed Peas you might ask? Well not a great deal but like the Marx Brothers, the Peas' Monkey Business is an enjoyable romp but it won't be seen as their defining work.

Another film that had the brothers cast as stowaways was A Night At The Opera. Now that's a superb Marx Brothers film. Wonderfully scripted with brilliant dialogue (the contract negotiation between Groucho and Chico is worth the price of admission alone) including the classic Stateroom scene makes A Night At The Opera one of the best comedies in cinematic history.

A Night At The Opera was also the name of a Queen album. It was the one that contained the songs 'You're My Best Friend' and the one and only 'Bohemian Rhapsody'.

Enough Said.