Monster House (DVD)

A Genuinely Exciting and Pleasing Spooky Film!
Truly Great and a Film all the Family will enjoy!
Another Fantastic Steven Spelberg & Robert Zemeckis Film about a Young Boy (DJ) who has known for awhile the House across the street is Spooky & Strange.. The House becomes a living Breathing Monster so DJ and his Friends decide to investigate what secrets keep the house alive! They soon find themselves in a true nightmare with the Entity within the House and they must save the neighbourhood from total devastation.
BUY IT, BUY IT, you will not be disappointed, the Kids will love it and Watch it Over & Over again.
Very Cheap to buy now on eBay!
101% Recommended.

Monster House
It might sound crazy considering Monster House is an animated film but what I enjoyed about it
nearly more than anything else was the acting. There is a depth to the characters and
the way they interact that I am completely unfamiliar with in animated film and it caught me completely and pleasantly by surprise. This along with a genuinely scary story and and some sharp humor make this one of the best films I have seen this year...animated or otherwise. With executive producers of Steven Spielberg (Jaws, Close Encounters, Raiders of the Lost Arc),and Robert Zemeckis (Back to The Future, The Goonies and Forrest Gump), its pedigree is unquestionable.

Monsterhouse is described by Columbia pictures as a comedy 'thrill-ride' featuring three kids 'DJ', (who lives across the street from the house in the films title), his best friend 'Chowder' and 'Jenny' (the newcomer with all the brains), who cross over to the other side of the street to unlock a mystery and experience the greatest adventure of their lives. Initially DJ and Chowder notice something is not quite right with the house over the road when its owner 'Nebbercracker' (unmistakably voiced by Steve Buscemi ), is taken away in an ambulance after a heart attack on his front lawn. I should just add that the voice casting for Nebbercracker is inspired. DJ and Chowder believe Nebbbercracker to be dead and decide to get to the bottom of what is going on. The house seems to retain things and also appears to be not all together as inanimate as it should be...

DJ is also embarking on another adventure - puberty, and at the start of the film his voice starts to break for the first time. Storys or fairytales with children of this age often feature a certain mystery or secrets to unravel. There is always somewhere they shouldn't go or a door that they musn't open (see Harry Potter..in fact, don't). They represent the aspects of adulthood that have so far been out of bounds and must be breached. Ultimately, it is about a coming of age.The interactions between DJ and Chowder provide the most humor especially during the scenes where they are vying for the attention of Jenny. DJ is the main character and is probably the most normal of the trio with normal reservations and normal feelings of inadeqaucy, due to his age. Chowder appears to be the opposite and is full of Bravado and self assurance - that is unless he is put into any sort of danger. Their attempts at one up-manship are brilliantly observed and are hillarious.

Throughout the film it is the various characters delivery of the script that brings about the most laughs...its the performance. Examples of this can be witnessed in all characters from the 'evil' teenage babysitter who is not really evil but just an exagerated teenager with an exagerated rebellious streak and her stoner boyfriend, to the two cops who patrol the neighbourhood: an older wiser cop and his nervy (not too bright), rookie partner. The relationships between both of these sets of characters feel real. The characters have obviously been worked on very hard and the writers and have been fleshed out with the same sort of detail as you'd expect in a live action movie. There is also a character played by John Heder (Napolean Dynamite), well more of a cameo actually, called Skull. He is a pizza chef with a mastery over video games and a mystical source of knowledge. He is quite a surreal character and the humor comes from this.