Review: Monster House

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Monster House is a great movie. The animation is incredible. Some screens apparently showed the movie in 3-D with a new type of presentation that maked it super-realistic. Our family saw this flick in a regular theater, and nothing was lost. You could really see how amazing this would be in 3D, but 2D was pretty spectacular.

Our daughter was four- when she saw this and spent half the movie in one (or both) of our laps, or begging us to hold her ears closed while she shut her eyes. It was pretty scary to her. She is six now and still doesn’t want to see it again.

That’s why I think that older kids might get more of a kick out of this movie. The adults should like it too.

There are lots of cameos, and as mentioned the animation is stellar.

The direction is excellent too. I had a hard time believing this was a first time director. The whole movie moves along at a snappy pace. I don’t think that it is much over an hour forty.

Don’t get up immediately after the credits roll. They cut back several times to the story.

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Get it at Amazon: Monster House [Blu-ray]

I want to get this in Blu-ray. As I said some of the shots in the theater looked almost 3D. I bet it would really pop in 1080p. It looks pretty good on DVD though.

For more information, check out IMDB

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