Monster Squad

Hey another movie I never heard of and randomly found in my local video store. All I know is it has the classic Univeral horror monsters, so this should be good. So let us venture into Monster Squad.











The movie starts in Transylvania with a man named Van Helsing (Jack Gwillim)

 trying to stop Dracula (Duncan Reghr). But he fails and we cut to years later where a boy named Sean (Andre Gower) and another boy named Patrick (Robby Kiger) are in trouble for drawing in science class. They say that the drawing is for their Monster Club but they still are in trouble. The rest of the club includes Horace (Brent Chalem), Eugene (Micheal Faustino), Rudy (Ryan lambert) and occasionally Sean's little sister Phoebe (Ashly Bank). Sean's father (Stephen Macht) is a cop and he is called to the station to deal with a man (Carl Thibault) demanding to be locked up because he claims to be a werewolf. On top of it all he is also called to the museum because a mummy (Micheal MacKay) has gone missing. Far off in the swamp Dracula, The Wolfman, The Mummy, Gill-Man (Tom Woodruff jr), and Frankenstein's monster (Tom Noonan) all get together so that they can find a magical amulet to take over the world.

Sean starts to suspect something when he hears his dad talking about his work and when Eugene says that The Mummy was in his closet. So The Monster Club gets together and decides to take a book that was written by Van Helsing to a Scary German Guy (Leonardo Cimino). Little side note, "Scary German Guy" is his name, it is literally what it says in the credits. So Scary German Guy says that there is an amulet that once every 100 years opens a portal into limbo. The only way to stop it is for someone to read a certain entry from Van Helsing's diary. So they say bye to Scary German Guy and decide to go find the amulet. But before that it turns out that Phoebe made friends with Frankenstein. They make a plan to take the amulet. Rudy makes some wooden stakes and silver bullets and Patrick tries to get his sister (Lisa Fuller) to read the book (because it's in German and she speaks German). Meanwhile Sean, Horace, and Frankenstein go into the mansion that Dracula lives in to find the amulet.

***SPOILER ALERT STOP HERE IF YOU DON'T WANT THE END RUINED***

They find the amulet but Dracula is angry at them. Sean and Horace meet up with the others and they get moving. The Mummy attacks them but they mange to defeat him (pretty easily now that I think about it). They make it to where Scary German Guy is and get ready to read Van Helsing's diary. So all the monsters are defeated, the portal to Limbo is opened up, Scary German Guy still doesn't get a name, and the army shows up after everything is resolved. The End.

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Monster Squad was adequate. It wasn't the best but it was good enough to make an entertaining movie. The classic horror monsters are cool and it has some pretty intense action. The make up for the monsters also looks pretty good. Duncan Reghr does a good job as Dracula and the idea of movie monsters teaming up to take over the world is pretty cool. But it does seem to "borrow" a lot of characters from The Goonies and some of the monsters don't get enough screen time (especially Gill-man and The Mummy). I think something that would improve the movie is if the movie focused on the monsters more. I mean when I hear the title Monster Squad I think...................

But what I got was...........

Oh well, despite its flaws Monster Squad is an entertaining Halloween movie that is worth a watch. See you next time when I review Gremlins.

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