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- 2006
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 31 m
- 2006
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 31 m
Summary Columbia Pictures and executive producers Robert Zemeckis and Steven Speilberg present Monster House, an exciting and hilarious thrill-ride tale about three kids who must do battle with a mysterious house that threatens anyone who crosses its path. (Columbia Pictures)
Directed By: Gil Kenan
Written By: Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab, Pamela Pettler
- 2006
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 31 m
- 2006
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 31 m
Monster House
68
8.3
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Summary Columbia Pictures and executive producers Robert Zemeckis and Steven Speilberg present Monster House, an exciting and hilarious thrill-ride tale about three kids who must do battle with a mysterious house that threatens anyone who crosses its path. (Columbia Pictures)
Directed By: Gil Kenan
Written By: Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab, Pamela Pettler
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
68
84% Positive
27 Reviews
27 Reviews
13% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
68
84% Positive
27 Reviews
27 Reviews
13% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Monster House makes its intentions clear: It wants to wrap you in a thick, warm blanket of 1980s nostalgia.
Smaller kids might find the movie too intense at times, especially when DJ, Chowder, and Jenny find themselves literally in the belly of the beast. But everyone else should enjoy a good, goosebumpy scare.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 288 User Ratings
8.3
82% Positive
237 Ratings
237 Ratings
11% Mixed
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
7% Negative
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 288 User Ratings
8.3
82% Positive
237 Ratings
237 Ratings
11% Mixed
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
7% Negative
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
this animation is perfect! It doesn't look like a movie for children because it has really scary and macabre parts, I was really scared of this movie in my childhood
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Becomes one of those wonderfully weird adventure stories beloved of children who don't mind getting a good old-fashioned case of the heebie-jeebies. It's kind of a blast for adults too.
The house itself - which walks down the street in one impressive scene - is memorably voiced by Kathleen Turner.
The three neighborhood kids who venture inside this toothy trap are wittily conceived (as are other characters, like a goth babysitter), but though the overall conception suggests Hayao Miyazaki's "Howl's Moving Castle," the frenetic pacing seems as American as an apple pie in your face.
Surprisingly enough, puberty-stricken J.D. and Chowder actually sound like real teenagers, but the cartoony look will probably alienate real-life kids that age, and the man-eating house might be downright terrifying to younger kids.
A grisly, often cynical piece of work whose joyless, aggressive spirit is made even less appealing by its soulless visual style.
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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The movie does give a shiver down my spine, but the story of the movie just doesn't do the job.
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Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster. (6)
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This film revolves around the obsession of a small group of children with an old neighbor, living in an old house. The neighbor, Mr. Nebbercracker, rudely drives away the children who will knock on his door or play near his house, stealing the toys that are left in his lawn. Obviously, grown-ups don't want to hear the suspicions of the little ones, who believed that something is wrong there.
This movie deals with four things: privacy, private property, fear and monsters. Initially, the old neighbor looks just like an old man who does not want to be bothered or wants anyone stepping on his ground. So far he has every right to do so, and we must see the behavior of this children as a mere voyeurism. They have no right to spy the old man or get into his private life. Its only with the development of the film that we actually find that the children were right in their suspicions. Anyway, we condemn the fact of this film, in a way, encourages voyeurism. The life of others should not be more interesting than ours. Aside from this moral detail, the film's story is good and solid. I also thought the ending of the movie was very exaggerated.
The film features voice actors such as Steve Buscemi (the old man), Mitchel Musso or Kathleen Turner. I think they all did a good job, according to our expectations. Animation was done in a very interesting way: contrary to the general trend of looking for realistic animations, this film decided for a more classic, stylized look. This made it different, with some pleasing originality. I don't think it's the right movie for young children, given the content mildly associated with horror and the moral options we already spoke. Discernment and care of parents and adults is key to understanding whether its appropriate or not. Either way, it's a family movie, where grown-up kids are likely to feel more at ease than adults.
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Production Company
Columbia Pictures,
Relativity Media,
ImageMovers,
Amblin Entertainment,
Sony Pictures Animation
Release Date Jul 21, 2006
Duration 1 h 31 m
Rating PG
Tagline There Goes The Neighborhood.
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Annie Awards
• 6 Nominations
