Monster House (2006)

Rating: 80%
Oh my gosh did I hate that this movie did not win best animated feature at the Oscars. I mean Cars was just okay, hardly one of Pixar's strongest, and Happy Feet was cheesy and had a couple to adult content stuff that were surprising to find in a kid's movie, and it really won just because of it's environmental message to me. But this film was actually good and I find it an outrage that it didn't win. Why is that? let's find out.


Plot: DJ is a 12 year old boy who spies on his elderly neighbor, Mr. Nebbercracker who keeps taking toys that lands on his front lawn. While his parents are out to a convention, He plays some basketball with his best friend Chowder until the ball accidentally lands on Mr. Nebbercracker's lawn. They try to get it back until Mr. Nebbercracker chases them until he gets a heart attack and is sent to the hospital leaving the kids to believe that he's dead. But then the house comes alive and tries to eat Chowder and later a girl named Penny. So it's up to the three kids to figure out how to stop the house from eating the entire neighborhood.

This is a very nice movie. The characters are fun, the story is very nice and it gets much more interesting as the movie goes on, and most of the animation is pretty good. But I will admit that there's a very good reason I said most of the animation was pretty good. I do think they didn't go very big on quite a few facial expressions and body movement at some points in the movie. I mostly say this with DJ and Chowder during the first half of the movie where they lack a good amount of expression, and sometimes the body movement was so poorly done that there's been points where DJ's suppose to be so made that he kicks a piece of furniture, but really just touches it with his foot even though he's suppose to act mad over what had just happened. But otherwise, the animation is good. I especially like what they did with animating the house during the second half of the movie.

Music: It was pretty good. It had a decent Halloween tone to it that worked well in setting the movie.

And that's my review for Monster House. It's a fun animated movie that may have some issues like with facial expressions and body movement when it comes to the animation, but it's still a nice movie and it really should've won best animated feature instead of Happy Feet.