Monster House (film)

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Monster House is a 2006 American 3D computer animated comedy animated film directed by Gil Kenan, produced by ImageMovers and Amblin Entertainment, and distributed by Columbia Pictures about a terrorized neighborhood by a demon house. Movie stars Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, and Spencer Locke. The characters are animated primarily using performance capture. The Monster House generally receives positive reviews from critics and earns more than $ 140 million worldwide.

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Plot

Parents of twelve-year-old DJ Walters leave town for the weekend, leaving him in care of his nanny, Zee. The DJ has been spying on his elderly neighbor Horace Nebbercracker, who has confiscated any landing on his driveway. After the DJ's best friend, Charles "Chowder" lost his basketball on the Nebbercracker lawn, DJ was arrested by Nebbercracker trying to recover him, but the angry owner appeared to be suffering a heart attack and taken away by an ambulance. That night, DJ received a phone call from home without anyone on the other end. Overhearing Zee's girlfriend, Bones listens to him telling Zee about losing his kite on Nebbercracker's lawn when he was a kid and the Nebbercracker allegedly eating his wife. Later, Bones saw his kite at the door of Mr. Nebbercracker's house, but he took it home while taking it.

The next morning, a girl named Jenny Bennett sells Halloween candy. DJs and Chowder saw him go to Nebbercracker's house and hurried out to catch him before he was eaten by him. Jenny called the police but did not believe it.

All three sought advice from Reginald "Skull" Skulinski, a supposedly master of supernatural. They learn that the house is a rare monster created when the human soul merges with a man-made structure, and it can only be killed by breaking its heart. They concluded that the heart had to be a furnace and Chowder provided a doll containing cold medication that should have caused the house to sleep long enough for them to quench the stove. Police Officers Landers and Lester thwarted their plans and they were arrested when Landers discovered a cold drug stolen from the Chowder father's pharmacy inside the doll. When the officers went to check the house, they ate and the car where DJ, Chowder and Jenny had closed.

When the house is asleep, the children start exploring. In the basement they found a collection of toys collected from the Nebbercracker grass, as well as a door open to a temple containing the body of the Nebbercracker's wife, Constance the Giantess, wrapped in cement. The house realized that they were inside and attacked them. DJ, Chowder, and Jenny forced the house to spit it out by grabbing uvula. Nebbercracker arrives home alive, revealing that Constance's spirit is in the house and that he does not eat it but instead gives him some of the happiest moments of his life. As a young man, he meets Constance, who later becomes an undesirable circus member, and falls in love with him even though he is overweight. After he helped run away, they started building houses. One Halloween, when the children tortured him for his size, Constance tried to chase after them but lost his footing and fell to his death in the dungeon. Nebbercracker had finished the house, knew it was what he wanted, but realized that Constance's spirit made the house come alive, he pretended to hate the children to keep them away.

The DJ told Nebbercracker it was time to let Constance leave, but the house overheard this. Angry, it is free from its foundation and chases the group to the construction site. Nebbercracker tries to distract the house so he can dynamite, but the house notices and attacks him. Chowder fights with excavators and DJs are given dynamite. While Chowder distracted the house, DJ and Jenny climbed onto the crane and the DJ threw dynamite into the chimney so the house exploded. All three then see Nebbercracker with Constance's ghost before he disappears. The DJ apologized to Nebbercracker for the loss of his home and his wife, but Nebbercracker thanked the children for freeing him and his wife from being trapped for 45 years. That night, the children in their Halloween costumes line up at the location of the house, where DJ, Chowder and Jenny help return the toys to the owner. Jenny's mom picks her up and the DJ and Chowder do the trick-or-treat, which they once felt was too old for them. Those who are eaten by the house emerge from the dungeon.

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Cast

• Mitchel Musso as Dustin J. "DJ" Walters, a 12-year-old boy
• Sam Lerner as Charles "Chowder", best 12-year DJ friend
• Spencer Locke as Jenny Bennett, love interest 11 years DJ
• Steve Buscemi as Tn. Horace Nebbercracker, a former 72-year-old "demolition squad" expert
• Maggie Gyllenhaal as Elizabeth "Zee", a punk punk nurse
• Kevin James as Landers Officer, a police officer
• Nick Cannon as Lester Officer, a police officer
• Jason Lee as Bones, Zee punk rocker boyfriend
• Jon Heder as Reginald "Skull" Skulinski, a mad-game comic addict and an expert on supernatural
• Kathleen Turner as Constance "The Giantess" Nebbercracker, the 675-pound woman presented against her will in a circus freak show in the mid-1940s
• Catherine O'Hara and Fred Willard as Tn. and Ny. Walters, an overly protective DJ parent

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Production

The film is taken using performance capture, in which the actors perform character movements while connected to the sensor, a process pioneered by Robert Zemeckis. The stereoscopic 3-D version of the movie is made and has a limited special release in the digital 3-D stereo along with the "flat" version. The album was released in about 200 theaters equipped for the latest REAL D Cinema stereoscopic 3D projection. The process is not based on film, but purely digital. Since the original source material is "built" in a 3-D virtual, it creates a very rich stereoscopic environment. For the release of the movie, the studio dubbed it Imageworks 3D .

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Reception

Monster House grossed $ 73,661,010 in the United States and Canada, and $ 66,513,996 overseas, totaling worldwide $ 140,175,006.

The film generally received positive reviews from critics. Based on 158 reviews collected by the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a 74% approval rating, with an average rating of 6.8/10. The critical consensus of the site reads, " Monster House and grown-ups into households filled with fun and dreadful fun. "

Ian Freer, writing for Empire , gave the film 4 of 5 stars with a verdict, "Sort of Goonies for Noughties, Monster House Orlando Sentinel wrote," This Monster House is a really nice home. This is a 3-D animated children's movie built on a classic gothic horror line, a joke, spooky Goonies for the new millennium. "He also gave it 4 out of 5 stars." Scott Bowles from USA Today watched, "This movie treats children with respect. Pre-adolescent Monster's is sarcastic, thinks they are smarter than their parents and go crazy over the opposite sex. Amy Biancolli of the Houston Chronicle writes, "It's engineered to scare your pants, split your sides and squeeze your tear channels into submission." Michael Medved called him "clever" and "slick, clever [and] funny" while also warning parents about allowing small children to see him because of his intimidating and intense nature, adding that "PG-13 rating" would be more appropriate than his "PG rating". AO Scott of The New York Times commented, "One of the scarier archetypes of childhood imaginations - the mysterious dark house across the street - actually turned on" Monster House, "a very creepy animated feature directed by Gil Kenan. "

Dissenting critics include Frank Lovece of Journal International, who praises director Gil Kenan as "a talent for watching" but scolds "the constantly changing internal logic.... The DJ's parents leave, and the house does not turns horribly in front of a teenage caregiver, Zee, but it turns horribly in front of his girlfriend, Bone.That does not turn horrible in front of two city cops until, in another scene, it is. "Todd McCarthy of Variety writes, fans of "Alert" Harry Potter "will see the script unashamedly lifting the main personality traits of JK Rowling's three most important characters to the main trio: Tall, dark-haired, serious-surprising DJ is Harry, semi-dufus Chowder is Ron and new cohort they, Jenny's smarty-pants prep school (Spencer Locke), are Hermione.... [i] t is a theme-park ride, with shocks and shocks provided with reliable regularity, but in 90 minutes the experience is not sensitive and hopeless and too urgent. "

In 2008, the American Film Institute nominated the film for a list of Top 10 Animation Movies.

Awards and nominations

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Spin-off

A 56-page one-shot comic strip was released by IDW Publishing in June 2006, featuring Bones and backstory characters ahead of and during the movie. Simeon Wilkins, a storyboard artist for the film, is credited as an artist and co-author of the comic.

A video game based on the movie, titled Monster House , was released by THQ on July 18, 2006, for PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo DS.

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References

• Columbia Pictures press release entitled " Monster House : July 21, 2006" (offline)

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External links

• Official website
• Home Monster on IMDb
• Home Monster in AllMovie
• Home Monster in Box Office Mojo
• Monster House at Rotten Tomatoes

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