The October 6 of 13

Monster House is a computer animated film from Relativity Media, their first animated film. This has become one of the October 13 here at EYG.

The house across the street from DJ (Mithell Musso) is alive. DJ has been watching the house because of the antics of the crabby old man Mr. Horace Nebbercracker (Steve Buscemi) who would confiscate toys of kids that windup on his front lawn.

When Nebbercracker seemingly died when confronting DJ, the house became more dangerous…especially since it is almost Halloween.

There is a ton of creativity in this movie. The animation and character design is excellent and a lot of fun. The third act conflict worked big time in this film, which I think helped a slightly underwhelming second act.

The voice actors, along with Steve Buscemi is strong. They include Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kevin James, Nick Cannon, Jason Lee, Jon Heder, Catherine O’Hara, Fred Willard, and Kathleen Turner.

I will say that I was not a huge fan of a couple of the characters, especially Chowder, Zee and Skull. Still, I did like DJ and Jenny and the whole use of Nebbercracker was clever.

This was a solid Halloween animated film. The design of the house, in particular, was remarkably creative and imaginative.