Review – Monster House

Here’s still more proof that good tech alone won’t make a good picture. The computer animation in this production is solid, occasionally even impressive. The story is about a trio of kids who discover that the house across the street is actually a living creature that eats toys, dogs, slackers, cops, kids, and whatever else it can get its pseudopods on. This premise naturally gives the film-makers plenty of opportunities to do cool visuals that would have been impossible without sophisticated CGI. The producers also kicked in the cash to get some fairly-well-known actors to do the voices. But none of that could overcome the script problems. This is a dumb, mean-spirited movie, and no amount of slick polish can cover up a defect like that. See if desperate