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SteamboatWillie

Awesome movie, kinda like The Goonies with a horror theme:-)

11 years 9 months ago

belasco

I absolutely love this movie. It has so much heart and enthusiasm that you get a silly smile on your face. Fred Dekker is a genius.

12 years 2 months ago

kayadams

I can't believe I only saw this now. This is an amazing movie and the ending made me cry like a baby. It's definitely now one of my favourites! So many great moments :)

7 years 6 months ago

Oneironaut

Great movie. This would be one of my top choices of movies to send back to my younger self. Too bad I only saw it now.

12 years 1 month ago

What if the Goonies were involved in a Universal Monsters team-up? That's The Monster Squad in a nutshell. And it makes sense that such a team-up would work as a kids movie today. It's got some excellent gags, especially the way it sets up and handles each monster's demise (the mummy's is particularly fun), its weak link really being the dialog. This early Shane Black script (co-written with Creeps director Fred Dekker) features school yard homophobia and body shaming, as well as a nasty misogynistic steak that goes beyond the "girls have cooties" attitude of a 12-year-old's tree house. Otherwise, the dialog is fairly lackluster, so yeah, I'm jumping in my time machine to order another draft. Because it's really too bad that a light horror Amblin-style adventure movie like this is too cringe-worthy to show 2022's kids. Black and Dekker (I know, right?) should have aimed for timelessness.

2 years 1 month ago

inigo_montoya

Funny and enjoyable. Shane Black rocks!

11 years 9 months ago

ChrisReynolds

Completely overrated. There's a real mismatch of tone throughout: the swearing, off-colour humour and violence seem to be aimed at teenagers, but the lazy hole-ridden plot and a lot of the childishness seems more appropriate for a much younger audience.

10 years 3 months ago

last_lucas

One of the best movie ever.

11 years 10 months ago

mook

Pesky Kids Vs Classic Movie Monsters. Last saw this 20ish years ago and I've always remembered it as something it perhaps wasnt; its a good concept but they didnt make the most of it and it was pretty cheesy this time around. 5/10 .

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12 years 9 months ago

The Last Baron

Hilariously bad now, but would have been amazing to see this when I was a kid.

13 years 5 months ago