The Blue Monkey is a blue sapphire diamond embedded in a monkey-like statuette in the 2003 movie Looney Tunes: Back in Action. It had the supernatural ability to turn people into monkeys and back into people.
History[]
Mr. Chairman, the evil head of the ACME Corporation is first seen rambling about getting the Blue Monkey diamond to his "evil purposes" (as his minion, Bob Smith reveals it to him), and then showing interest on his Bad Ideas VP, Mary.
Later, he orders his first henchman, Yosemite Sam, to capture D.J. Drake (the film's protagonist) and Daffy Duck in his casino at Las Vegas. After they escape along with Kate and Bugs Bunny to the Nevada Desert, the Chairman contacts his desert operative (Wile E. Coyote) to destroy them, but needless to say, he fails.
At Area 52, the heroes learn that the Chairman's goal is to use the diamond's power to turn every person in the world except himself and Mary into monkeys to massively produce ACME's machines and gadgets, then have them human again to buy them for profit.
Meanwhile, Mr. Chairman contacts Marvin the Martian and orders him to execute a breakout and get the map card DJ has, but they escape in the nick of time. His last attempt of taking the Looney Tunes out of the way is having Elmer Fudd to chase them at the Louvre Museum, but Kate's cellphone with a photo of the map to the diamond is stolen by Mr. Chairman's bodyguard, Bob Smith. The group travels to Africa and finally reaches the diamond, but the Chairman, Bob, and Taz the Tasmanian Devil (disguised as Granny, Tweety, and Sylvester, respectively) corner them and teleport them all to ACME's headquarters (with some minor complications).
Chairman explains that he wants the Blue Monkey so he could plant it into a satellite and turn all inhabitants of Earth into monkeys so he could then enslave them and have them build more ACME products. He would then change them into people and sell them. It is protected by traps and weapons to keep it from being stolen.
Chairman ties Kate and DJ next to a train rail where DJ's father, Damien Drake (who was kidnapped before) is tied to, waiting for ACME's Death Train to come. Mr. Chairman then gives the Blue Monkey to Marvin, ordering him to get to ACME's satellite in order to unleash the monkey laser.
Bugs and Daffy then chase Marvin through space, trying to stop him from attaching the Blue Monkey to ACME's satellite to unleash the monkey laser. However, Daffy (as Duck Dodgers) manages to throw his beak at the satellite's antenna, unleashing only two small shots, one of which hits the Chairman, turning him into a monkey, much to Mary's sorrow. Damien Drake, who had been rescued earlier, put him in handcuffs. When Daffy and Bugs crash-landed through the window in their ship, Monkey Chairman runs away in horror. The Blue Monkey was then lost in space.
Usage[]
According to the original film, the Blue Monkey has the simple use that if it is aimed at someone, the latter will be devolved in a monkey. The only two characters that are devolved in the film are D.J. (who accidentally turns to point the statue at him) and Mr. Chairman (that is hit by one of the small shots launched from the satellite)
Usage in alternative ending[]
In the alternative ending the Blue Monkey seems to be more powerful: instead of turning anyone into a monkey and/or bring back the unfortunate in its original form, the Blue Monkey of the alternative ending has the capacity to regress those who are hit according to its evolutionary line. Therefore humans can be devolved into apes, but they can also be devolved into their own prehistoric counterpart. For the animated characters of the film, the Blue Monkey can devolved the character in its most archaic form.
Users in alternative ending[]
In the alternative ending the Blue Monkey is used by more characters, both good and evil:
- The first to use the statuette is D.J., who uses it to free his father from the clutches of Mr. Smith, devolving Damian Drake to a capuchin monkey. Monkey Damian shakes his head and then starts to run away on all fours screaming monkey verses;
- After removing the chains, Bob Smith heads for D.J., who attempts to devolve Mr. Chairman’s minion by hitting his head with the Blue Monkey. The whole thing fails and the statuette falls to the ground, being taken by Kate who in the confusion points the Blue Monkey on Bugs Bunny. After launching the ray, Bugs Bunny is devolved in Happy Rabbit.
- Devolving Bugs Bunny doesn’t make Kate realize that Bob Smith has approached her menacingly, and with all his strength tries to return the statue to D.J., that fails to intercept the launch of Kate and drops the Blue Monkey in the hands of Mr. Chairman.
- While Mr. Chairman claim victory, Daffy Duck snatches the statuette from Mr. Chairman’s hands, this time claiming him victory. Daffy Duck notices that Bob Smith is approaching him menacingly, so he thinks to point the statue at Smith but stumbles and directs the Blue Monkey towards Happy Rabbit and Kate Houghton, who watches the scene stunned.
- After a bright white glow, Kate’s evolutionary line is regressed to a stone-age state, devolving her in a cavewoman and her clothes are devolved in an animal leather bikini. After a few seconds it turns out that even Kate’s brain has been regressed to a more primitive context. In fact Kate begins to behave like a stone age woman (remarkably stupid moreover).
- With Kate, the ray of the Blue Monkey further devolve Bugs Bunny, turning it into Neanderthal Bugs from Mad as a Mars Hare.
- Daffy Duck doesn’t seem to care about the primitive appearance of his friends. Daffy approaches the Monkey’s diamond to the eye to understand how it works, but he accidentally turns into an egg.
- To deflect Mr. Chairman, D.J. throws a Blue Monkey beam at Tweety, which falls into the lava. After D.J. gives the statuette to Mr. Chairman, Tweety resonates from the lava in a pterodactyl form, eating Mr. Chairman.
- In the final, D.J. re-evolved his team in their evolved form.
Trivia[]
- Taking the functioning of the Blue Monkey to be true in the alternative ending, it is likely that the statuette is bound to a parallel universe where the world remained in the Stone Age. That would explain why D.J. and his father were devolved in monkeys while Kate was devolved in a neanderthal woman. In addition, Cave Kate seems to recognize Mr. Chairman, so it is very likely that she knows his neanderthal ancestor.