Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Undescribable Perfection

I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

I grew up in the 80's and watched this as a child, it was fun and entertaining, and it worked with my imagination which was already leaning towards a tendency for horror. As a thirtysomething year old now, I've re-watched the movie, and I still got some enjoyment out of it, along with a bucket load of nostalgia. Van Helsing and his gang break into Castle Dracula and use a spell to stop a reign of evil by destroying an amulet. Something goes wrong and evil is not wiped out, instead the good guys lose, but evil ends up lying dormant for a while. Fast forward to the 80's and things are about to get ugly. While transporting Dracula's coffin to America, Dracula manages to escape, after which he calls on some of his most trusted henchmen - I mean, monsters. Arise then: Wolfman, Creature from the Lagoon (or Merman), The Mummy, and Frankenstein's monster. Set on destroying the vehicle which would allow them to be banished - the spell and an amulet. Luckily there is a Monster Squad in town, a group of friends who love monster movies, monster facts and trivia, and, well, anything monster related. The Monster Squad manage to work out what is happening. Along the way they slowly convince some adults to help out. The ultimate aim, is to succeed where Van Helsing failed, and put a final end to evil - stopping Dracula and his hench-monsters. Think "The Goonies" with a lot less money for the budget, mixed with "Stand by me" with more horror, and "Fright Night" but with the lights on. This is a fun adventure with all the charm of an 80's cheese tasting session. It's harmless, family fun which a touch of horror. The monsters are camp, the bats are rubber, the soundtrack is synth-tastic, there are tongue in cheek Easter eggs all over, it's cute, it's sad - it's a lot all rolled into one. I'm not saying it's the best kids horror film you will ever see, but definitely not the worst, but it's definitely fun. I'm expecting this to get re-booted at some point, as there is a lot you could do with CGI to amp-up the film, and because in its day, this got a cult following of fans. 7 out of 10.

I found myself wanting to watch something Halloween"esque" a few days ago and I stumbled upon this. I was so pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this movie. It was a horror comedy where they horror was just scary enough and the comedy was really funny. All of the actors did a really good job and this is a flick I will most definitely add to my home collection!!!

I remember going to see this on my birthday and...it was the coolest film I had ever seen...but then again I felt the same way about Batman, and Willow, and The Goonies, and Robocop, and so many other movies so....grain of salt there.Bit of a token here, like so many other kids in the '80s I was never censored as a child. And when it came to the old monster movies it was like parents went out of their way to make sure their kids saw them all. So my friends and I had a bit of background walking into this.That might have added to the appeal...or it could have been the fact that "Wolfman has nards" or just the fact that the mom was Mary Ellen Trainor and we knew her as the mother of the Goonies and Lethal Weapon and Romancing the Stone and she was sort of like the mom of the '80s so we had that family feel to it.She was everywhere wasn't she? At least she was in all the important movies that kids that were kids in the '80s watched. Emphasis on "important." And adventure horror comedy. Kids that grew up when I did loved horror-comedies, it has been a part of our souls since the days of Scooby-Doo. Scary and funny and perfect for little boys.It was "The Goonies" with monsters. Who wouldn't love it? Frankenstein instead of Sloth. "The Monster Squad" instead of "The Goonies" and a little girl instead of Chunk.It is a formula made for little boys, and, believe it or not, it aged just as well as The Goonies.

It didn't take long for me to remember why THE MONSTER SQUAD was so forgettable: any movie wherein a character is called "Fat Kid" by his alleged friends throughout isn't exactly gunning for fans. I've given Dekker the benefit of the doubt quite often in the past, but this time around, he had the keys to the Kingdom (the Money and the Means) and STILL managed to blow it. By giving us GOOSEBUMPS by way of THE GOONIES, he did himself a grave disservice (not to mention the fans who shelled out the money to see this one). THE MONSTER SQUAD does have ONE thing going for it: the remarkable Monsters by the late Stan Winston- especially The Creature From the Black Lagoon. I give the Monsters in THE MONSTER SQUAD a 5; the rest pretty much squeaks for itself.