October 2nd, 2006 by Sam
One thing came to my mind when watching this movie. Why the release date so ealy in the summer. It seemed a little preemptive. For a movie that is based around the Halloween season the beginning of October seemed like no better time to release this movie. But regardless this movie struggles as a movie found enjoyable by the adult audience. Many people I believe will be pulled in by the premise of a house being a monster and some big names behind it like Steven Spielberg. Yet, in the end meh...not much here folks. It's like pulling up at what looks like a gruesome car wreck hoping to see limbs sprawled all over the place and only to find a couple of teenagers complaining of neck pain, not quite enough. The kiddies will probably enjoy it because of the animation but us older people will not be fooled by the old rabbit-out-of-the-hat trick for very long. Because I guess the movie fooled me because I still saw it.
| Quick Review | |
|---|---|
| Plot/Storyline Basic, kids do amazing things with ridiculous circumstances. |
5 |
| Acting/Characters Each has basic voices that fit the character they are playing. |
5 |
| Visuals/Sound Visually seems a little behind when compared with studios like Pixar, sound is excellent. |
6 |
| Replay Maybe again if it was on TV to enjoy for free during Halloween. |
6 |
| Overall Rating: | 6 |
| All scores are out of 10. Overall score is not an average. | |
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Brent
October 4th, 2006 - 7:32 AM
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The visuals are one of the reasons I'm never that interested in non-Pixar animated films. The character designs are always pretty poor and like you said, it seems like the animation is never on the same level as Pixar. I'll probably still give this a rent sometime.