| | | Robert Zemeckis & Steven Spielberg Present...
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.40:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, Subtitled, French, Dubbed & Subtitled
Even for a 12-year old, D.J. Walters has a particularly overactive imagination. He is convinced that his haggard and crabby neighbor Horace Nebbercracker, who terrorizes all the neighborhood kids, is responsible for Mrs. Nebbercracker's mysterious disappearance. Any toy that touches Nebbercracker's property, promptly disappears, swallowed up by the cavernous house in which Horace lives. D.J. has seen it with his own eyes! But no one believes him, not even his best friend, Chowder.What everyone does not know is D.J. is not imagining things. Everything he's seen is absolutely true and it's about to get much worse than anything D.J could have imagined.System Requirements:Run Time: 91 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE
"Kenan directs with a zingy sense of kids, comedy, fright, and visual perspective." Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
"One of the best movies of the year..." Pete Vonder Haar, Film Threat
"The most imaginative and delightful computer-animated movie of recent years..." Sean Axmaker, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Editor's Note
IN THEATERS JULY 1, 2006 There are countless movies about haunted houses, but first-time director Gil Kenan brings us the story of a house that is itself a monster. In CGI, voiced by Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhall, and others.
| Features | Audio: English, French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Dubbed: French | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 9/25/2007 |
| Running Time: 91 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2006 | | Catalog ID: 15419 | | UPC: 00043396154193 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Adam Scott - Editor | | Dan Harmon, et. al. - Writer | | Douglas Pipes - Original Music By | | Fabienne Rawley - Editor | | Fred Willard - Voice Of | | Gil Kenan - Director | | Jason Lee - Voice Of | | Jon Heder - Voice Of | | Kathleen Turner - Voice Of | | Maggie Gyllenhaal - Voice Of | | Mitchel Musso - Voice Of | | Paul C. Babin - Cinematographer | | Robert Zemeckis - Executive Producer | | Sam Lerner - Voice Of | | Steve Buscemi - Voice Of | | Steve Starkey - Producer | | Steven Severin - Original Music By | | Xavier Perez Grobet - Cinematographer |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"[The movie] shimmers and shakes in all its motion-capture animated beauty with the slyly deep sensibilities of executive producer Robert Zemeckis....How freaky, and how fun." -- Grade: A- 07/28/2006 p.45New York Times
"MONSTER HOUSE is unpretentious, smartly written and a lot of fun." 07/21/2006 p.E22 Box Office
4 stars out of 5 -- "The film shines with characters who feel nothing like cartoons, spouting dialogue with more wit and realism than almost anything you'll see in live-action." 08/01/2006 p.38 Total Film
3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] star lung-power...and state-of-the-art technique....A fun ride." 09/01/2006 p.38 Sight and Sound
"This is an assured, entertaining debut....MONSTER HOUSE teases us by plugging into age-old fears of being devoured." 09/01/2006 p.62 Premiere
3 stars out of 4 -- [W]ondrous....Filmed with a vibrant motion-capture technique akin to executive producer Robert Zemeckis's THE POLAR EXPRESS..." 12/01/2006 p.134 Rolling Stone
"An animated horrorfest -- too good for just the kiddies -- that marks a striking debut for director Gil Kenan..." 11/30/2006 p.104 ReelViews 8 of 10
Monster House is, to the best of my knowledge, the first animated haunted house movie, and quite possibly the first family film to recall, at various times, Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and The Amityville Horror...It's part story and part spectacle, with the two halves being nicely balanced to offer something for just about everyone. The film pays enough attention to character development for us to care about the protagonists (although it uses stereotypes as a short-cut), and there's a substantial amount of humor. - James Berardinelli
San Francisco Chronicle 9 of 10
The motion-capture process is put to good use in the sequence in which DJ's best friend, Chowder (Sam Lerner) comes to visit -- he looks a little like the chubby, earnest Samwise in "The Lord of the Rings" -- and they play basketball in the driveway. Chowder's uncoordinated movements are funnier as animation than they would have been in live action. Their verisimilitude makes them funny. It's the kick of watching a cartoon look awkward in exactly the same way as a human being..."Monster House" was designed as a family movie and a scary movie. It may scare children, but it won't terrify them. So it's no scarier than it should be. - Mick LaSalle
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