Monster House (Widescreen)
- Starring: Steve Buscemi, Nick Cannon, Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Director: Gil Kenan
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A suburban home has become physically animated by a vengeful human soul looking to stir up trouble from beyond the grave, and it's up to three adventurous kids from the neighborhood to do battle with the structural golem in this comically frightful tale, directed by Gil Kenan and featuring the voices of Steve Buscemi, Nick Cannon, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Kevin James. DJ Harvard (voice of Mitchel Musso) lives directly across the street from a most unusual house. A malevolent entity that longs to feed on the energy of the living, the once peaceful house that looms ominously outside of DJ's bedroom window would like nothing more than the chance to feast on the children of the neighborhood. As Halloween begins to draw near and the children of the neighborhood prepare for another long night of trick-or-treating, it appears as if it may be the house that is in for the biggest treat of all. Now, with the adults turning a deaf ear to DJ's strange findings, it's up to the brave young boy and his faithful friends Chowder (voice of Sam Lerner) and Jenny (Spencer Locke) to break through the barrier of the supernatural and defeat the powers of darkness before the house grows too powerful to fight. Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Features
- Genre: Kids and Family
- Category: Creature Film, Haunted House Film, Kids' Fantasy
- Theme: Demonic Possession, Heroic Mission
- Release Date: October 24, 2006
- Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)Rating Opens in New Window - Scary Moments, Scatological Humor
- Studio: Sony Pictures
- Lead Actors: Steve Buscemi, Nick Cannon, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jon Heder, Kevin James
- Supporting Actors: Jason Lee, Catherine O'Hara, Kathleen Turner, Fred Willard, Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke, Ryan Newman, Woody Schultz, Ian McConnel, Erik Walker, Kevin the Dog, Blanchard Marissa, Ranjani Brow, Kimberly Beck Clark, Miles Clark, David Cowgill, McKenna Cowgill, Harrison Fahn, Frannie Felder
- Director: Gil Kenan
- Picture Format: Widescreen
- Run Time: 1 hr 31 min
- Language: English, French
- Subtitle Language: English, French
- Format: DVD
Additional Information
- DPCI: 058-10-1585
- ASIN: B002IK8R96
- Catalog #: 11353573
- Item can not be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Dimensions : 7.5 inches length x 5.4 inches width x 0.9 inches height
- Estimated Ship Weight: 0.03 pound.
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Monster House is a glorious return to form for exec producers (and masters of escapism) Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis -- and within the realm of computer animation, it's a welcome respite from the assembly line of movies in which zoo animals team up together. Gil Kenan's wellspring of imagination hearkens back to such Spielberg-produced classics as Gremlins and The Goonies, and it shares a motion-capture technology with Zemeckis' most recent directorial effort, The Polar Express. But Zemeckis has learned from the criticisms directed at Express. These animators have designed the characters as stylized versions of the vocal talent, rather than attempting the photo-realistic recreations of Express, which gave Tom Hanks a kind of zombie look. Monster House is indeed a technical marvel, its colors vibrant, its camera swooping through the frame (especially the opening, which follows a blowing leaf and a singing girl on a tricycle). But to focus just on that would short-change this terrific story, which is both funnier and scarier than children's movies usually get to be. In fact, so edgy is the script (by Dan Harmon, Pamela Pettler, and Rob Schrab), that it's almost more adult-oriented than child-oriented. There's real darkness and danger in this world of absentee parents, but there are also real children, real babysitters, and real video-game geeks -- this last a memorable cameo voiced by Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder. Bringing the marvelous dialogue to life are Maggie Gyllenhaal as the punked-out sitter, Jason Lee as her sketchy boyfriend, Steve Buscemi as a crotchety neighbor, and child actor Sam Lerner, whose spasmodic best friend falls somewhere between Eric Cartman and Chunk from The Goonies. The film's one failing is Nick Cannon's mouthy black police officer, whose character design and persona are uncharitable almost to the point of racist. Fortunately, the rest of Monster House is so good that it overpowers any such hiccups. Its star, the anthropomorphic mansion with the living lawn and the wooden jaws, is as creative a monster as Hollywood has produced in years. Derek Armstrong, All Movie Guide
