What a beautiful movie!

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Any film that has a conversation about how to make prettier pickles is classic in my book, and this ends up being probably the best of the Bowery Boys films,an Abbott and Costello style horror film. There's a Lurch like Butler (Grisom, whom they keep referring to as Gruesome) who gets the predictable reaction when he orders Sach and Slip to "walk this way", a series of wacky relatives and an exotic Theda Bara like vamp, all gathered together in a spooky mansion where it's best to expect the unexpected. Some great character comics (among them Ellen Corby and Lloyd Corrigan) have a ball emoting dramatically for laughs. Corby has a tree monster who happens to like cats (as a snack, I'm sure), and Gruesome, err Grisom, takes a potion that makes him Mr. Hyde's long lost twin. A funny looking robot and a gorilla round out the ensemble of wacky creations/creatures.There's more laughs in this single entry than all of the series up to that time. The script is filled with funny gags and dialog ("The living of today are the skeletons of tomorrow"), and it's an interesting set design as well. Corby, looking like granny without the Tweety Bird, will delight her fans from "The Waltons", looking the same but no match for her no- nonsense matriarch as she regrets the lack of living flesh for her funny looking tree. Minimal screen time of the gang for all but Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall doesn't matter, as the wacky characters of this madhouse are entertainment enough.

Bowery boys, Slip and Sach (Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall) want to find a property so the kids can have a sandlot for their baseball, but the location for which they desire is owned by the dreaded oddball family, the Gravesends. Slapstick, plays on the English language (Gorcey's specialty is using words that have no business belonging in the sentences they find themselves), kooky characters, energetic cast (even if the humor might be dated, the cast give it their all), and busy plot (towards the end, all hell breaks loose as the Bowery Boys run around trying to keep from being killed as the family tries to either take their head or feed them to a hungry tree (don't ask)) keep this film moving like a locomotive. It doesn't stay still long enough to really contemplate just how preposterous it gets (and wants to get). As far as the monsters: there's a giant robot that obeys the commands fed from a microphone, a gorilla (yep, the gorilla once again!), tree kept in a hall that is fed by Ellen Corby (yes, Grandma Walton!), a vampire (the sultry Laura Mason), mad scientists John Dehner and Lloyd Corrigan, and the tall, deep-voiced butler (Paul Wexler). Steering through all the hi-jinks are the Gorceys (eventually, Bernard and David, along with Benny Bartlett, come looking for their boys, encountering the crazed Gravesends themselves) and Hall, looking to survive and, still on mission, get permission for the sandlot. Dehner wants Hall's brain as a replacement for his gorilla while Corrigan wants to put Hall's head on his robot! That duel for Hall often leads to him nearly knocking at death's door (Wexler even has a hatchet, ready to cleaver the poor guy in two!), but fate always rescues him in the nick of time. The tree even eats Slip's sandwiches and drinks his milk after a nighttime visit to the kitchen! The robot is a star of the movie, often losing its head when walking erratic without proper command…reason why Corrigan wants to get him Hall's head! Dehner even has Hall on the operating table, interrupted by visits of the other Bowery boys right before surgery!You get plenty of Leo and Huntz playing off each other (it is the Laurel and Hardy, Three Stooges comedy team dynamic), through insults and ribbing. Plenty of physical humor is at the fore, too, besides the nincompoop goof antics of Leo and Huntz. Everyone's in on the fun, with little subtlety in sight. Just try and figure out what Leo means by some of the words he uses incorrectly in his sentence vocabulary! Included in the cache of mocked horror clichés is the Jekyll/Hyde monster, transformed from an experimental fluid meant to give the drinker attractiveness, instead causing a manic, hairy-faced, toothy beast, for which both Wexler and Huntz become far too aware. Was it fun? I thought so, but it is all so chaotic and harried, the cast doesn't take a breath, so this kind of comedy is an acquired taste.

Growing up in new jersey i remember them showing the Bowery boys movies every Sunday,and being a monster fan this was my favorite Bowery boys movie,huntz hall and Leo gorcey want to turn a vacant lot into a baseball field for the Bowery kids so they will have a safer place to play baseball,actually called stick-ball in new jersey and new york. they find it is owned by some kooky Addams family types.there's a gorilla in a cage,a man eating plant,and a big clunky robot.its all slapstick hijinks when the Bowery boys show up,some people called this the poor mans Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein.though not as good its funny,especially Leo gorceys vocabulary.as a Bowery boys movie i would say its the best one.made by allied artists(earlier known as monogram pictures)the Bowery boys went through many name changes, the Clancy street boys,dead end kids,eastside kids,and later the Bowery boys.i give this vintage gem 7 out of 10.

If you don't enjoy this Bowery Boys flick, forget the others! THE BOWERY BOYS MEET THE MONSTERS is one of their best, and quite possibly THE best. Slip and Sach leave Manhattan for Long Island to ask the owners of a barren lot in their neighborhood if they might help turn it into a baseball field where Bowery kids can play. What the boys discover when they meet the eccentric owners at their eerie manor is that they're a couple of looney bird mad scientists, who quickly plan to use Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall as brain donors for their latest experiments. This is not exactly ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN, but it was doubtless influenced by that team's "meet the monsters" series of movies. The Bowery Boys wind up confronting a creepy butler who transforms into a Jekyll/Hyde monster, a quirky robot, a savage gorilla, a sexy vampiress and a creaky old lady with a man-eating plant for a pet. Fans of The Three Stooges may recognize actual sequences "borrowed" from some of their shorts, as this was scripted by Stooge writers Edward Bernds and Elwood Ullman (and Bernds directed). As a result, the pacing is quick and the jokes are quite good. Highly recommended as one of your first Bowery Boys experiences, or if you're a fan of monster movies of the period.*** out of ****