Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper |
8 |
This is a funny, freaky, beautifully shot adventure that should be the front-runner for the Academy Award as Best Animated Picture of 2006. |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
7 |
...has real virtues, starting with solid and uncluttered plotting and a sense of direction. The tale works from a time-honored premise: What's up with the scary house across the street? |
E!
|
6 |
...a fixer-upper if ever there was one. |
filmcritic.com
Anne Gilbert |
8 |
...if families decide that they are in the mood for some scares in the summertime, they will likely be pleased with what they get. |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
7 |
The storytelling skill in Monster House isn't always up to its visuals. But as a roller-coaster summer entertainment, it's a heck of a lot more fun than Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, not to mention a full hour shorter. |
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh |
6 |
...the cartoony look will probably alienate real-life kids that age [teens], and the man-eating house might be downright terrifying to younger kids. |
Reel
Tim Knight |
5 |
...a misconceived attempt to create a family-friendly version of Poltergeist... |
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager |
5 |
...transmogrifies into a lumbering spectacle of sound and fury, dispatching with virtually all character and situational nuance in favor of superheroic exploits and enormously involved—but largely dreary—set pieces fit for the preordained tie-in videogame. |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
6 |
Kenan is a talent to watch, even in a flick that doesn't know when to quit. |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
9 |
Feature first-timer Gil Kenan directs with a zingy sense of kids, comedy, fright, and visual perspective. But the movie also shimmers and shakes in all its motion-capture animated beauty with the slyly deep sensibilities of executive producer Robert Zemeckis. |
New York Times
A. O. Scott |
8 |
...marvelously creepy... |
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust |
8 |
...stands out from the crowd of haunted- house tales thanks to its motion-capture animation, witty script and ace voices. |
People
Leah Rozen |
6 |
...showcases slippery-smooth animation and solid voice work by Gyllenhaal, Buscemi and others. |
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas |
8 |
...at its best, it has the jubilant, one-thing-after-another inventiveness of the movies Spielberg, Zemeckis, and associates like Joe Dante and Chris Columbus specialized in throughout the 1980s. |
Village Voice
Luke Y. Thompson |
4 |
The coolest thing about Monster House is that Kathleen Turner's face was actually motion-captured to create the house's movements, but actual human beings on-screen might have ratcheted up the tension, of which there is none. |
Onion AV Club
Keith Phipps |
7 |
...combines witty gags with a sweet, albeit familiar, suggestion that kids shouldn't be in any great hurry to be anything but kids. |
Maxim
Pete Hammond |
7 |
Surprisingly witty and accomplished... |
Premiere
Sara Brady |
8 |
...crammed to the rafters with the kind of satisfying horror-lite scares that make it a perfect midsummer diversion. |
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer |
9 |
If Polar Express put you off motion-capture animation, Monster House should put you back on. |
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