5/10
The Vidiot Reviews
9 June 2014
Dunston Checks In

The way to tell if a monkey has been in your hotel room is the feces that you had left on the bedside table is now on the wall.

However, the orangutan in this family-comedy is toilet trained better than most humans.

Kyle (Eric Lloyd), the son of the Majestic Hotel's manager (Jason Alexander), befriends Dunston, an orangutan who has been trained to steal by his master, a jewel thief (Rupert Everett).

Mistaken for a critic by the hotel owner (Faye Dunaway), the pickpocket is permitted to go about his business unobstructed.

But when word gets out that a primate has checked into the establishment, the hotel's 5-star rating and Kyle's dad are threatened.

A madcap escapade embellished by slapstick shenanigans and puerile pranks, Dunston Checks In is as goofy as expected but surprisingly endearing and amiable.

Furthermore, it's refreshing to finally find a non-decomposing ape in a hotel room.

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