This was definitely a fun film, but I don't recommend it to kids under ten years old or people that are easily scared. Aside from that, it's really fun to watch!

I hadn't seen this movie in years, but loved it as a kid. When it hit Netflix I decided to give it a re-watch. While it wasn't nearly as good as I remember, there were still some great things about it. The plot of Monster House is interesting. There's a haunted house across the street where a crazy old man lives and steals kid's belongings. Only this time, there's a twist to the house and it's owners. Unfortunately, the house itself is the best part of the movie. Everything else is just okay. Gil Kenan had a great idea, he just didn't know what to do with it. The characters aren't great either. While some of them are just forced in simply for the sake of a female protagonist, others just end up coming off as kind of dumb. Sure, they're young, but they're still not very good at following common sense, even for their age. None of their life problems seemed particularly well-developed or original either. This movie suffers heavily from its animation style. It's kind of ugly. The movements are fine and everything, but some character actions end up looking unfinished or just awkward. The overall look of the characters is very unappealing, which really made it hard to get through the movie at times. The movie was over way too quickly. Towards the end I wish they'd drawn out some parts, but instead they just briefly touched on them and rushed to the climax. The climax was pretty awesome though. Overall Monster House has an awesome idea, but that's about it. The plot isn't well-developed, the characters are cliché and underdeveloped, and the animation looks unfinished. While the climax was awesome, it wasn't enough to save the entire film. In the end I'd still recommend giving this movie a watch. It's got some really great ideas that I wish could have been surrounded by something better, but it's still worth your time, even if it's only for the ending.

You know i am getting tired of how parents complain about how awful the movie is, yeah there a few themes that are not suitable for children but if you are so concerned about your children being corrupted by a simple movie? Then might as well control everything they watch. Because honestly they will see and hear things worse at school. The movie had it is flawed but it isn't a bad movie. The movie should be given a lot more credit, overall it doesn't have anything badly. A lot of movies for children put adult humor for the parents sake, and the children won't exactly understand so why try to diss on a movie that certainly deserves some credit?

I saw this movie in the movie theaters 8 years ago on a date. I've rented it and seen it a couple of times since then. But, of all the computer animated movies, I'd rank this one as my favorite for a few reasons. One, is if I see movies like Cars or Finding Nemo, they seem too kiddish for me and they always have, even though they made a lot of money and have good special effects. I mean those movies seem like watching a TV show for preschool aged kids and I don't think of the plots as that entertaining. I feel like watching Cars where all the characters are vehicles, is like watching Thomas The Tank Engine. I think I prefer movies with human characters. Well, I can give you a few reasons this movie really entertained me and why I prefer it over any other computer animated movie so far. Obviously, the characters in this movie are humans, and this movie takes place in the modern day rather than how some of these computer animated movies take place like during the medieval period. Not only does it take place in the modern day but if you watch the movie you'll notice how it doesn't take place during the time it was made in the 2000s, and supposedly takes place in the '80s, a period of time a lot of us can consider when life was more simple. What else is also interesting about this movie, the main characters in this movie are middle school students: DJ, Chowder, and Jenny. I think of middle school as the most interesting age. The characters in this movie, seem like realistic characters and they're computer animated. The neighborhood where the action takes place also seems like a typical neighborhood, minus the creepy house across the street from DJ. It's also cool how Jon Heder the guy who we remember as Napoleon Dynamite plays a voice in this movie as like an alienated obsessed video game player, knowing how things from video games can apply to real life. The movie shows some scary images too, like skeletons. The house across the street, by all means is a scary house and some of the action scenes in the movie reminded me of a couple of action scenes in a bigger movie, War Of The Worlds. This movie did get pretty intense and scary in a couple of scenes where it almost felt like it should have been rated PG-13. This is also like a Halloween movie, as the action takes place the day before and the day of Halloween. Too bad this movie didn't make as much money as a lot of the other computer animated movies. But, to me personally this movie meets more of my taste, and it seems like a more entertaining and less cheesy movie to watch than a lot of those other computer animated movies. I'd give this movie a 10/10.