Monster House

Monster House is an exciting and hilarious thrill-ride tale about three kids (Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner and Spencer Locke) who find....The movie's remarkable animation has an inviting and appealing 3D appearance.....you feel like you're watching real people and it is all due to the incredible motion-capture animation of the movie..... ... Full Review

There are some really great allegorical films that don't turn out to be great drama or good times in a movie theater. Kenan has curried favor from the sci-fi and comic-book-film crowd, and won a ringing endorsement from fanboy site aintitcool.com, with reviewer masswyrm enthusing, "I want to see more movies like this, a lot more movies like this. ... Full Review

In "Monster House", it was better. In "Monster House", the technology was used to better effect because the characters were highly stylized and looked like animated characters. This is not a good thing when a film is trying to be hyper-realistic. ... Full Review

Every so often, the experience of watching the film is better than the film itself. Monster House" is such an example, but the film is pretty darn good as well. ... Full Review

Monster House begins inventively, with a lively combination of suspense, comedy and fleeting movie references. They've already had a bit of practice contending with DJ's two-faced babysitter (a nice comic voice performance from Maggie Gyllenhaal). ... Full Review

It also features some extraordinary digital sound effects and cleverly combines live action cinema with computer-generated imagery enabling the animated characters to look alarmingly real where necessary. Though directed by London-born Gil Kenan, a 29-year-old fresh out of Californian film school UCLA, it's as technically competent as it is dark and compelling. ... Full Review

Video Monster House is presented in a very nice 2.40:1 anamorphic transfer. Overall Monster House does a wonderful job of captivating the audience. Good acting, and some unique imagery in order to make this 'monster house' live up to its name. ... Full Review

Whatever season fits House best, I think it works pretty well as a movie. In addition, the Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack of Monster House worked even better. For the most pat, the flick seemed accurate and well-defined. This is a terrific track. ... Full Review

Gil Kenan's delightful throwback Monster House is one such home run, a kid's movie that doesn't traffic in pretension or talking down to its audience - this is a film very much in the vein of those now-classic Eighties films, the ones with stock characters that somehow transcend cliche and become fresh, forever lodging themselves in our collective cinematic memories. ... Full Review

and the pyrotechnics at the end are perhaps a bit much, but Monster House is a tremendously fun movie that deserved better recognition than it got. The animation is suitably impressive, but the human characters have a decidedly cartoonish appearance that actually makes them more effective and much less creepy than the soulless automatons of that Christmas picture. ... Full Review