Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!

SoftInloveRox Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Vomitron_G Well, it's easy to describe this movie. What Wes Craven's SCREAM was to the slasher-movies, MONSTER! is to monster-movies in general. It's an enjoyable spoof that first explains the rules of the genre and than plays with them. M. Emmet Walsh plays Lloyd Reeves, a local movie-hero who has starred in one too many monster-movie. He gets released from the hospital and his son is there to take care of him for a while. But at that same time teenagers begin to disappear and turn up dead. Lloyd is convinced that a monster is terrorizing the town. A monster which returns every three years. Could that be true, or is Lloyd finally losing it himself? M. Emmet Walsh is a lot of fun as the determined Lloyd Reeves, who constantly refers to his legendary film rolls in monster-movies. It's also fun to see almost everything he predicts, come true (because he knows the rules of the genre). The rest of the cast is decent but rather forgettable. The film moves at a fairly fast pace and is as well a parody on as a homage to the entire monster-genre. The monster, which we do get to see near the end, is a bit silly and made out of pretty bad CGI (think Playstation 1 graphics). But it didn't bother me at all, 'cause this is a spoof after all. And a fun one it is.So, you can easily program this movie as the first of a triple-feature monster-movie night, to lighten up the audience. But you can also watch it on a rainy Sunday afternoon with the kids, since there's no nudity or real violence in it. You can pop open a beer and poor in some hot choco-milk for the kids and than enjoy this silly monster-spoof.

Peter Swanson If the cast hadn't played this film absolutely seriously it wouldn't have worked, but they did, so it does. M. Emmet Walsh is the focus and anchor of the story, and is perfect in the role, as I'd expect from one of our greatest character actors. The premise -- that the movie monster created decades earlier by Walsh actually lives -- is ridiculous, but, like any good science fiction, is acceptable as long as we're led to it in a logical manner. Because the film is played straight, we're free both to accept and to laugh at it. I'm not sure I'm imparting how enjoyable this film is. Another reviewer referred to it as "snack food," and I agree. It's snack food with some substance however, like a big Snickers with protein from the peanuts, as opposed to Wal-Mart potato chips. I'd watch it again, if only for some of the quotable dialogue.

marianna28 If, like me, you grew up watching old black and white horror/thrillers from the 50's and 60's on Saturday afternoon T.V. then you will get a kick out of this movie. It is not a SCARY movie--but a clever twist on the "plots" of the old classics. It is just fun to watch and M. Emmett Walsh is fantastic! You could view this in the same light as "SCREAM" or "I Know What You Did Last Summer" but those are horror movies with blood and gore to make you cringe. Monster! is just meant to be a good, fun movie not something to give you nightmares. Enjoy! If you want to be scared by an old classic, check out "I Saw What You Did And I Know Who You Are" 1965.

gbby21 I've seen this movie and despite the fact that some other people don't know how to appreciate computer effect movies, this movie delivers some cool effects especially the monster. I especially loved Tobias(Toby) Mehler's acting! His extremely good acting skills show off in this movie just like they did when he acted in the Wishmaster 3 movie as one of my favorite Archangels, the Archangel Michael!