Yikes! Who thought this was a good idea? Michelle Rodriguez stars as as professional hitman Frank Kitchen who, after killing the wrong person, is given a sex change against his will and released back into the world. Don’t you hate it when that happens? Rodriguez plays both versions of the character offering her some interesting acting challenges but this translates to almost nothing of interest on-screen.
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Far from a flop, but not the box office family comedy smash the fledging DreamWorks Pictures was hoping for, Galaxy Quest came and went in the winter of 1999 and early 2000 with marginal success. Those lucky enough to see the film in the theaters were in for a treat that stayed around the top 10 of the box office for several weeks earning positive reviews from critics and earning back double its production costs. Without really knowing what they had on their hands, bungling the marketing of the film and hamstringing its release, DreamWorks had nevertheless produced the best Star Trek movie ever made.
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Monk Monday takes us back to San Francisco and the toils of the defective detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub). “Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival” offers another unusual murder for Monk to solve. While working through his reinstatement hearing, Monk agrees to help Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine) with a death at the local carnival involving a cop (Stephen McHattie) known to shade outside the lines. The pro quo assumes Stottlemeyer will recommend Adrian for reinstatement, something he struggles with in front of the committee and eventually balks under the justification Monk isn’t ready to carry a gun (this will be an argument suggested against Monk’s reinstatement over the series, although the possibility of reinstatement and giving him desk duty, effectively solving the problem, is never discussed).
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Monk Monday takes us back to San Francisco and the toils of the defective detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub) attempting to solve a case where he knows the who but cannot fathom the how. The who in this case is excessively obese Dale the Whale (Adam Arkin) who all evidence points to murdering a local judge he had disagreements with. However, Dale Biederbeck is too large to leave his own apartment let alone travel across town and kill someone. Knowing they can’t possible tie him to the crime, Biederbeck taunts both Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine) and Monk reopening old wounds for our detective.
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Monk Monday takes us back to San Francisco and the toils of the defective detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub). The first single-hour episode of the series following the two-hour pilot episode, “Mr. Monk and the Psychic” sees Monk volunteer his services to the former police commissioner (John Bourgeois) whose wife (Kate Trotter) goes missing and is later found dead by a psychic (Linda Kash). Given the loss of his own wife, the case hits close to home, but seeing discrepancies that can’t be explained, and not believing in psychics in general (or this specific psychic specifically), Monk begins to suspect the woman was murdered by her husband.
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