Monster House

Pros: Entertaining animated movie.
Cons: Could be too scary for some children.

Many neighborhoods have at least one creepy looking house that scares children as well as a grumpy neighbor or two. Sometimes children make up stories about those houses or neighbors. The animated movie Monster House showed how three ...

Pros: impressive animation
Cons: too dark, not funny enough, really not appropriate for its intended audience

The 2006 release Monster House is a 3D formatted animated feature from Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg that gives us a glimpse into the life of a young boy (D.J.). When D.J. starts to suspect that something is very wrong with the house next ...

Pros: Great animation, music, voice acting, good plot, a fair bit of humour
Cons: None for the target audience

Monster House was certainly not my first choice to go and watch but, under some peer pressure, I gave in to a certain curiosity about the movie. After all, computer-animated children’s horror movies must be a very small sub-genre, and there was an ...

Pros: Excellent animation
Cons: Too scary for the real little ones

Monster House is an animated haunted house movie from producer Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. While I did enjoy this movie, I did not think it was very appropriate for younger kids, hence the PG rating. I have several young nieces who I ...

Pros: The animation of the house.
Cons: Everything else

Every neighborhood has one – the house that everyone fears. It is slightly run down and the owner is a weirdo that drives everyone away from the property. In this particular neighborhood, that house is across the street from DJ (voice of Mitchel ...

Pros: Out of this world animation, a fun movie that is worth watching over again.
Cons: Script is at times unrealistic, dry humor.

I'll be honest; I enjoy watching animated movies when I become getting tired of horror movies. I know when I feel depressed, I watch kid movies to hopefully make me happy again. Animated movies somehow make me feel like a kid again and Monster House is ...

Pros: The look of the film, the creative side
Cons: Too much for little ones

Monster House is a very creative, very active movie. The 3D digitally animated film is so real looking you wonder sometimes if you are not watching a “real” movie in high definition. I should have known that when my husband wanted to buy it ...

Pros: Incredible animation, excellent plot, very atmospheric.
Cons: May be a little too scary for very young children.

Every weekend we do something with my son. One day is currently reserved for swimming and the other we spend either at Busch Gardens, the movies, or some other fun place. This summer is a bonanza for children's movies with 'Over The Hedge', 'Cars', ...

Pros: The animation was good, has plenty of action
Cons: Scary, use of negative stereotypes and adult situations, NOT for children in any way

We rented this movie from Netflix because the previews made it seem like it might be funny. I watched this movie with my adult daughter and neither one of us liked it. I felt that it was not for children AT ALL and she felt that it was too scary for ...

Pros: great cast of voice talents; motion-capture technology; wonderfully believable animated characters; scary and fun
Cons: not suitable for the younger ones, only for children aged around 10 and up

I enjoy watching animated movies but can't watch any horror movies (nightmare-prone, alas, I blame it on my extraordinarily vivid imagination), so Monster House seemed like a good compromise. Chances are that a horror movie aimed at children ...

Pros: Amazing graphics, keeps your attention.
Cons: Scary for little guys.

It has been a long time since I have written a review here at Epinions but I have been wanting to come back. Tonight we went to see Monster House and I thought writing a review on that would get me going again. My husband and I took our eleven year ...

Pros: good use of the animation
Cons: the pacing and only 10 minutes inside the house

I bought Monster House a while ago on DVD and have decided to watch it and review it. Monster House is an animated kids horror movie, while it tries to be scary it pulls it’s punches in a way so it doesn’t scare the kids. It also sprinkles a light ...

Pros: A fun animated movie that was quite scary
Cons: Earned its PG rating- too scary for the little ones

This movie was co-produced by Stephen Spielberg, Robert Zemikis and Jack Rapke. Like most movies with Spielberg’s name, this turned out quite well. I rented Monster House on Halloween night, along with The Hills Have Eyes and the new Halloween. ...

Pros: Concept, animation, voices, first act, sound, willingness to go "dark"
Cons: Story, pacing, "love story," third act, tendency to go "too dark," inconsistencies, too long

Old man Nebbercracker. The name alone conjures up images of childhood, playing after school, roaming through the culs-de-sacs in the neighborhood with friends. Didn't we all have that one (if you were lucky it was only one) mean neighbor you didn't ever ...

Pros: Watchable.
Cons: Only watchable once.

I'm sure I'm not the target audience for Monster House, but I watched it anyway. It didn't particularly interest me when they were airing trailers for it, but it did catch my attention enough that I remembered it when browsing a DVD list. ...