If you grew up on Saturday afternoon Monster movies like I did this was a whole lotta fun. I laughed at the great spoofs of the shows that scared me as a small child. I think if you are looking for good clean fun with a lotta nostalgia this is for all who loved the "B" movies of the past/present/future. The acting was pretty good and played just right. There have been other movies made by companies like Sci-Fi Channel and UPN that have tried to recreate the feel of the "B" Science Fiction movies but Monster! was the best of these. I wish that some studio would do the same kind of thing for the Hope/Crosby road movies. Between the "B" SciFi movies and laughing at Hope and Crosby my childhood was made a little fuller. Enjoy

This is a fun movie for anyone who has wasted a Friday night or two watching low-brow sci-fi from the 50s on T.V.. It is loaded with in-jokes and references without "winking" too much to the audience. The acting is good, direction is competent and the tone is generally sweet. The special effects are "cheesey, befitting this genera. Consequently, as an homage to the 1950s it works, but as contemporary Sci-Fi, it doesn't. If you loved the "Iron Giant", you will at least find this movie interesting. You will learn the "rules"of rampaging giant monster movies that can be subsequently used while watching "real" 50's films. The "Giant Gila Monster will never be the same.

Contrary to other reviewers who obviously don't "get" the concept of Monsters!, this film is a delightfully funny two hours of poking fun at every stereotype you've ever seen in a scary movie. Monsters! revels in not taking itself seriously, and spoofing the ridiculous repetitiveness so often seen in "real" monster movies. Watch this film like you watched the 1998 Godzilla re-make and you'll have a rip-roaring good time. How refreshing!!!

Playful, funny, lovingly satiric, action filled story about a retired, aging B movie star, Emmet Walsh and his straight laced Grandson, Travis. Emmet lives in the small town of "New Purgatory." He is a local legend, having filmed all of the "Monster" movies there, then settling down as a resident. He is seen as slightly mad because he believes the monster from his series of movies is real, and coming to attack the town. Thing is - he's right. It's a rite of passage as he hands over the "town hero" role to his Grandson and they save the town once more.