15 out of 15 people found the following review helpful:
Superb funny film, very enjoyable
Gareth Williams from Wrexham, North Wales,
14th February, 2005
Monster Squad is one of those films, that despite its numerous shortcomings, you easily enjoy and will watch again and again. It is a throwback of sorts to the fifties and sixties when magazines like Famous Monsters was coming out and television stations had weekend fright shows. It is a story about a group of 80's adolescents fighting the evil horror of Dracula, the Mummy, the Creature, and the Frankenstein Monster in a race to save Earth from permanent evil and dark forces. Yeah, I know it sounds crazy...and it is in many ways. The film, however, creates a nostalgic feeling for many people that grew up loving monster pictures. The make-up is outstanding, the acting competent, the sets believable. My favourite part of all though, is when the boys finally meet the old German man and befriend him. One of the boys says to him that he knows a lot about monsters, and when the door closes the old man looks at the concentration camp id branded into his arm and says, 'yes I do.' That line sums up the reality that exists between fictional, harmless horror and the reality of the real monsters that live or have lived in our society. All said, this is a truely fun film, not the best film ever made but in the same sense of the goonies an excellent teen comedy horror flick, well worth a look, 4 out of 5 definately!!
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