The Circus Monkeys are the former secondary antagonists of the 1998 animated film The Rugrats Movie.
In the film
The Circus Monkeys escape from the Banana Brothers Travelling Monkey Circus train early in the film and roam the woods. Chuckie, frightened by the clown on the circus train, discovers the train first and points it out to the others, at which point they meet the monkeys. The circus monkeys play with the babies, stealing Chuckie's glasses and swinging through the trees, until Tommy attempts to feed Dil with banana-flavored baby food. This attracts the circus monkeys, and is the primary reason that the circus monkeys follow the Rugrats.
When Dil finally gets on Tommy's nerves, he considers leaving Dil with the circus monkeys. While he looks for the banana baby food, he throws Cynthia out of the bag and the monkeys take her. The circus monkeys hide from the storm until they attack the next morning, but are chased off by Chuckie and the others.
The circus monkeys are encountered one last time, where they are scared by a huge wolf on the bridge near the Ranger station. After this, they are reunited with Igor and Sergei and, to everyone's delight, attack annoying newscaster Rex Pester.
Personality
The circus monkeys are mischievous, sneaky and abusive sentient animals who likes bullying people and stealing things from them (mainly the Rugrats). They're simply anti-villains in this film who plotted to kidnap and torment the Rugrats by preventing them from returning home.
Appearance
There are multiple different monkeys, Their exact species is unknown and most likely varies between monkey. Some of them appear to be the same, others have accessories and different colors and body types.
- Red lead monkey.
- Brownish orange monkey wearing a blue wizard hat with yellow stars and a cotton ball on the end
- Brown monkey wearing a purple top hat with a loose top.
- A small baby monkey wearing a diaper, usually with the female blue monkey.
- Blue female monkey with eyelashes, wearing a tutu, bow on her tail, and carrying a pink parasol.
- A baboon or mandrill-faced monkey with red shorts.
- A monkey wearing tennis shoes.
- Two monkeys (one male and female) with fur on the heads combed to resemble Phil and Lil's hair with the female monkey even wearing a bow on her head hair.
- A monkey wearing an orange-yellow hat (only seen once).
- Dark blue monkey.
- Tan/beige monkey with tall forehead.
- Brown macaque or langur with a gray unibrow and short gray tuft on the end of its tail.
Trivia
- Some people have believed that the circus monkeys aren't villains, although they were villains because they're simply sentient animals. They are also anti-villains who attempt to kidnap and torment the Rugrats by preventing them from returning home.
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