# New Monk movie premieres Friday **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, movies\ **Created:** [December 6, 2023, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203 "2023-12-06T23:17:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203/1 "2023-12-06T23:17:19Z")
_Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie_ They got most of the Monk cast back together. Jason Gray-Stanford had a heart transplant in Nov, 2020. I’m very happy to see him working again. I’m looking forward to revisting my old detective friend. [https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/06/entertainment/tony-shalhoub-monk-movie/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/06/entertainment/tony-shalhoub-monk-movie/index.html) They posted a few photos of the cast. They look pretty good. > **[Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie (2023) | Comedy, Crime](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt27145269/?ref_=tt_mv_close)** > > Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie: Directed by Randy Zisk. With Melora Hardin, Ted Levine, Tony Shalhoub, Traylor Howard. It follows Monk, a brilliant detective with obsessive-compulsive disorder. He returns to solve one last case involving his... , ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203/2 "2023-12-06T23:20:38Z")
Let’s hope it’s good, and not like many from the last season. They’ve had enough time to come up with a good story. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203/3 "2023-12-06T23:22:33Z")
For anyone else wondering where, this will be on Peacock. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203/4 "2023-12-06T23:24:31Z")
I’m intrigued by the character “Ghost Victim #5”. What happened to Ghost Victims 1-4? I see Dr Bell is in there. As is Trudy. Interesting as the actor must have aged, but Trudy can’t. Wonder how they’ll handle that. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203/5 "2023-12-06T23:34:46Z")
I see Tim Bagley in a face off with Monk. Tim played Harold Krenshaw. Monk’s rival over who had the worst phobias and best psychiatrist. They brought back Natalie instead of Sharona. I liked both characters. Sharona was more caustic and didn’t put up with Monk’s abuse. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203/6 "2023-12-06T23:35:31Z")
Plural in thread title-so there will be more after this one? The title of the actual work in question would seem to bely that, though. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203/7 "2023-12-06T23:36:48Z")
My bad. It should be singular in the thread title. Tony said in the CNN article he was open to doing another one. It depends on ratings. It sounds like the filming went well. > [@](#): > > Getting the cast back together for the project was “like a dream,” Shalhoub said. > > “It was joyous, it was productive, everybody wanted to do it and everybody was excited to do it,” he said. “And everybody brought their A game. It was just fun.” ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203/8 "2023-12-07T00:44:35Z")
Didn’t the series finale have Monk cured of OCD? i’m wondering how they’re going to deal with that in the movie. And I’m looking forward to seeing the flick! I loved the series. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203/9 "2023-12-07T01:53:48Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Didn’t the series finale have Monk cured of OCD? Cured? No. Better at managing it? Yup! In the final scene, his shirt collar is unbuttoned! ---
**Author:** ![ZamboniAce1000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f19dbf/32.png) [@ZamboniAce1000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZamboniAce1000)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203/10 "2023-12-07T01:55:54Z")
There was a funny Monk PSA-like video during the pandemic. [Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4W2xmqjvx4) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203/11 "2023-12-07T01:58:15Z")
Covid would be a nightmare for any germaphobe. Monk’s reaction may not be good for his stability. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203/12 "2023-12-07T03:15:46Z")
The show’s creator hints that [COVID has been bad for Monk](https://ew.com/movies/mr-monks-last-case-a-monk-movie-first-look-images/). I suspect that’s going to be a theme in this movie > “The pandemic threw Monk — and me and you and everyone reading this — for a huge loop, and he was suddenly back at square one,” says Breckman. “So the movie finds Monk in a pretty dark place, and he’s back in a hole that he has to try to dig out of emotionally.” ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203/13 "2023-12-07T14:37:29Z")
_Mr. Monk Goes to the Asylum_ is an early season 1 episode. It’s one of the few times they showed Monk completely delusional. He had returned to his old house and started making an anniversary dinner for Trudy. That episode could have gotten extremely dark if the events Monk investigated in the asylum had been delusional. I fully understood why Monk couldn’t be trusted with a uniform and gun. It’s why Sharona was originally his nurse and assistant. They made it clear in this episode that Sharona had experience as a Psychiatric nurse. She offers to take a job at the asylum. Thankfully Monk gradually got better in the later seasons. I don’t think the show would be as popular without the comedy. The movie should be an interesting revisit with Mr Monk. I’m intrigued they are pushing the story harder and not just making a nostalgic tv reunion episode. From the CNN article > [@](#): > > That’s not to say the movie is just like the series. > > “I was really heartened by the fact that we were going a bit darker [in the film] than we typically would, or than we ever did, really,” Shalhoub said. “All of us agreed that we didn’t want to make episode 126. We wanted it to be familiar, in some ways recognizable, but we wanted it to be heightened with raised stakes, higher stakes.” ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203/14 "2023-12-07T14:54:30Z")
I’ve always wanted a _Monk_/_Psych_ crossover, as was hinted at in the final regular series episode of _Psych_. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203/15 "2023-12-07T15:56:32Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > _Mr. Monk Goes to the Asylum_ is an early season 1 episode. It’s one of the few times they showed Monk completely delusional. He had returned to his old house Except…it was shown that where Monk lives “now” was his and Trudy’s house (that’s why the coffee table is always crooked, because she left it that way). I know, I know, I worry too much about continuity! One might say, I’m obsessed! ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203/16 "2023-12-07T18:33:56Z")
That’s exactly what Tony Shalhoub said in his appearance on Seth Meyers’ show last night. In fact, everyone ended up acting a bit like Monk during the pandemic. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203/17 "2023-12-09T03:59:20Z")
Watching it right now. I’m enjoying it, but half an hour in I knew how the murder was done. (After the reveal at the end of the episode I’ll be back to crow or to eat crow.) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203/18 "2023-12-09T04:56:05Z")
Yep. Adjusting the ruler was so obvious I thought Monk was going to think of that immediately, I was surprised they saved it for the Big Reveal. Also, I’m pretty sure they were being loose with how bunjee jumping works, and _definitely_ insane the placement of rocket launches. Still enjoyed it, though. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203/19 "2023-12-09T08:01:54Z")
8.5/10. Like the previous two posters, I knew (or at least strongly suspected) the method early on, at which point the mystery became “How will Monk solve it?” And that part held up pretty well overall. The confrontation, though, was — to quote Orwell — “doubleplusridiculous verging crimethink.” ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203/20 "2023-12-09T08:05:38Z")
Played for laughs. Absurd plot and story. Directed like an episode of the Love Boat. Good to see Monk again. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-monk-movie-premieres-friday/994203.md?page=2)