: Monster House
Not quite what I expected. At first some of the death references and gory plot bits seemed out of character for a children’s animated film, but in the end most of these are resolved (I won’t spoil it by explaining but just trust that things aren’t quite as dark as they seem initially). The animation is pretty good, varying from astonishingly realistic (landscapes and the house) to surprisingly poor (the kids’ hair isn’t drawn as individual hairs but a simple lump on the head which doesn’t change with wind or events). The characters are interesting, though other than DJ, the main child, we don’t get too deep, and the character of the house is strangely non-sympathetic. But overall I liked it. I wouldn’t give it two thumbs up, but at least a solid one.
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