The Monster Squad: Movie Analysis

The Monster Squad is a Horror/Comedy classic released in 1987. When I say Horror, I mean it in the sense that it contains the Classic Universal Monsters to varying degrees. Which in my opinion is what really makes this movie as good as it is, because that certainly wasn't the writing. Honestly I had never even heard of this film until about six months ago, and after looking into I have no idea how I missed this film growing up. I can't feel that my lack on nostalgic goggles is bringing the film down or if it was just over-hyped. But for me as fun as it is, The Monster Squad feels like it's trying to hard. As many scenes that are fun and memorable, there's just as many scenes that fall flat. Coupled with how easily the majority of the monsters …show more content…
His friends Patrick (Robby Kiger), Horace AKA Fat Kid (Brent Chalem), and Eugene (Micheal Faustino) comprise the rest of the club. Which quickly adds Rudy (Ryan Lambert) a cool Jr. High kid, who only wants to join so he can peep on Patrick's sister (Lisa Fuller). Sean's little sister Phoebe (Ashley Bank), also wishes to join, something he dead set against. Sean is given of Dr. Van Helsing's diary a gift, but his dismay learns that it's written in German. While this is going down, Dracula (Duncan Regehr) comes to town and starts gathering his monster allies including, The Mummy (Micheal MacKay), Gill-Man (Tom Woodruff), The Wolf-Man (Carl Thibault) and the Frankenstein Monster (Tom Noonan). Dracula also changes a trio of girls into his classic Brides. Sean takes the diary to the only person he knows that can speak German, The Scary German guy that lives down the street. Who turns out isn't scary and is in fact a super chill dude. He translates the diary for them that describes an amulet comprised of good and a spell about how to use it to open a portal to Limbo. Van Helsing meant to use this portal on Dracula years ago, but failed and got trapped there instead and the portal can only be opened once every hundred years. Dracula sends The Frankenstein Monster after Van Helsing's diary.But, after Frankenstein's Monster runs into Pheobe and she greats him the kindness he's always wanted, he turns on Dracula faster than a Jail House snitch. With his help Sean and the rest of Monster Squad make a plan to defeat Dracula and his monster allies once and for all... the plan includes blackmailing a teenage girl to take part in their