Count Dracula adjourns to Earth, accompanied by Frankenstein’s Monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Gillman. The uglies are in search of a powerful amulet that will grant them power to rule the world. Our heroes – the Monster Squad are the only ones daring to stand in their way.
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March 12, 2008
#1
A film notable only because the screenwriter was Shane Black (of LETHAL WEAPON fame). Otherwise, this is an unwatchable kiddie adventure movie with a stable of tired old movie monsters (i.e. Frankenstein’s monster, Dracula, the Wolfman, the Creatre from the Black Lagoon, and the Mummy). The script is bad, the kids are not very likable,and the plot is very thin. It’s hard to believe that this film was produced on the grounds that Shane Black’s name was on the cover of the screenplay. What a waste of celuloid. …
March 12, 2008
#2
I purchased this expecting to find a fun movie for my 11 year old. Reading all of the reviews I was encouraged but was ultimately disappointed. I didn’t expect the move to have basis in reality but if truth is told reality didn’t even visit the set of this one. Corny is the best description I can give. I love the theme behind this but the execution was bad. I could get into young boys hunting down monsters. I could even give it a series on T.V. but it would need a new crew beginning with the producers directors, AND writers.
First the reanimation of Frankenstein used ear buds from the vampire when lightening happened to strike at the opportune time. Where DID the lake monster come from? The lake I guess! How about the werewolf with a conscience. He tries to stop himself before the movie barely gets started. Why was Frankenstein on the side of good from the beginning? Just because he saw a little girl?? Frankenstein is so good he in fact is capable of taking a picture of a girl undressing by accident. It gets worse. The vampire sees the amulet that could sinch the side of evil winning but instead of getting it he hangs out with the boys in the hall with the werewolf and the three girls (also out of nowhere) whom the vampire had in his closet(literaly) They must have been in the same lake with the lake monster who by the way resembles the creature from the black lagoon but more plasticky.
The scary German guy has numbers tatooed on his arm. He shows us this with the statement ” I know a thing or two about monsters” I assume he was Jewish and referring to the Holocaust. What is the purpose of doing that in this movie???
The town cops must be the dumbest men alive because they keep running into the monsters and getting their necks broken and of course shooting at the vampire who happens to get wounded while flying as a bat but can’t be harmed by bullets any other time.
The final cringe that came from me was when the vampire picked up the little 5 year old girl and called her a “_itch” with a capital B.
If I were Stephen King, I would sue because his name is plastered on the front shirt of one of the boys in the beginning of the movie.
I wish someone would explain to me why this was so popular. I can only guess that if it is first viewed through the eyse of a 10 year old boy, his psyche will lock on to the girl undressing in the window and have a facination for life.
I wasted my money DONT waste yours! There is nothing to be nostalgic about with this one. It doesn’t even qualify as a “B” class movie perhaps “F” class for “Forget Me PLEASE!!”
March 12, 2008
#3
I got this movie for my youngest son and I to watch. We like the old Universal monster movies and I thought this would be a nice, modern version for us to enjoy (and finally a monster movie in color!). Boy was I wrong. There are scant few seconds of neat moments when all the major monsters are together, but those moments are surrounded by bad 80′s filmmaking at its worst.
This film resides in that 80′s neverland world of rude kids, clueless adults, and toilet humor. Like the rest of the world I never saw Monster Squad when it was released but I do remember the ads they played for it with that line about Wolfman’s “nards.” While lame, I figured they wanted to stay away from actual bad language; wrong again. The only curse word not found in this movie is the dreaded F- – - word. This flick is wall-to-wall filthy language, so right off my son couldn’t watch it.
It’s not scary at all, although whenever a female vampire dies it’s usually bloody. Not one of the kids has any charisma whatsoever and I found myself not caring if they survived or not; kind of like the “adult” horror film teenagers. And why does the amulet spawned vortex that is supposed to eradicate evil suck up anything in its path, even beagles??
People can’t claim nostalgia for liking this mess, because as I said, no one saw this thing. This was a great idea but a horrible execution. Too vulgar to be a kids movie, too juvenile for “most” adults, the Monster Squad is absolutely worthless.
March 12, 2008
#4
I bought it after hearing the buzz on film geek sites. The references to The Goonies are ridiculous. This movie is a waste of time and space. Got it for my kids who watched it once and have not asked again.
Waited for it to get decent and it never surpassed below average.
What amazes me is how you can find the 5 kids in hollywood that can’t carry a picture and assemble them all in one movie.
March 12, 2008
#5
Who in the hell said this was a classic, it was a dud when it was released and it’s a dud now.