The Monster Squad (1987) The Ultimate Monster Mash? - Rental Reviews
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- Monster Squad might be the last great mash up of the classic universal monster. It might also possibly be the best! Its about a group of kid who love monsters having to defend their town from actual monsters! Can they take on all these monsters by themselves? Does The Wolfman got nards? Find out when James, Mike, and Justin review this graveyard smash!
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Not gonna lie, I always teared up a little as a kid when the little girl is crying and asking Frankenstein to please don't go while she throws him her teddy bear as he's being pulled back into his universe.
And I teared up when Eastbound and Down got cancelled. :(
Wait, I don't remember the good doctor being in this movie
@@delicheese6774 *heavy sighs* yeeeaahhhh... I'm usually the one that corrects people about this. But this comment was just simply wholesome.
Not to mention the fact that Igor never existed until Son of Frankenstein(1939) . Before that it was Dwight Frye portraying *Fritz* whom *The Monster* hung when he escaped.
Yes. I am a fuckin nerd and I LOVE this shit.
I still tear up watching that part man
I did when I was a kid too. My son does also. He's 12
Justin analyzing monster squad like its schindlers list
It’s was better !
Obviously James didn’t have HBO growing up, cause this movie was on all the damn time!
Word!!!! I used to always watch this movie
I saw it in the theater, then rented the tape and recorded it, so I had my own copy. Watched it many, many times!
He watched Tales from the Crypt, and that was on HBO.
600 times a day
I know, right? I was 7 in 1988 when I saw this movie. It was perfect in every way and still holds up for me...bad fucking language and all. That's also what made it great, 'cause I was a little cussing, heavy metal listening son of a bitch when I was that age. Idk, wtf they're talking about.
I genuinely feel bad for James for not seeing this as a kid.
To be fair, I grew up during the 80's and I never heard of this movie till the 2010's. I looked up it's box office performance and it did NOT do well (it only made about 3 and a half million and had a budget of 12 million). I definitely did NOT see it on TV either (I didn't have cable, just the basic channels). It only got ONE VHS release during 1988 and nothing else and didn't come to DVD till 2007 (that's when it got popular with a cult following. Before that, few people saw it).Great movie.
I think the filmmakers assumed by 1986 everyone knew the universal monsters, and back story wasnt important, just the fun of having them all together was important
I'd rather have no explanation instead of a shoehorned one...
"It's not like the goonies where you remember every character. You remember Mouth and...and.. "
* proceeds to forget every other character *
😂😂😂
The Asian kid from Indiana Jones 2 is the only one I remember.
@@bobbobson110 Data!
Don't forget Thanos.
I remember Shortround, Samwise, Corey Feldman and Thanos being in Goonies. As far as Monster Squad goes the mom from ET and Cain from Robocop 2.
How do you forget chunk??
THAT'S IT! Justin doesn't like Monster Squad. He is off the show again ban him from the second store.
It's because there's no taco bell.
I think they should ban u from the second store
@@holeefuckingcow2757 Hey!Taco Bell is delish.
Justin's jealous because the guys are much thinner than him.
Justin sucks.
The irony of Justin not liking this movie when he, James, Mike, etc are a grownup version of the Monster Squad. They literally match all of the characters.
Lol
Question is, whose who?
The monster squad is a great childhood movie.
KING JAMES it truly is
He in fact means to harp on everything he says. Let’s compare a movie made in the 80’s to a tv show made today about the 80’s.
I'm kinda shocked that James of all people is concerned about the bad language used in this 😂
the angry video game dad :)
@@tomassmith2088 Yup, I've seen my friends become dads and they get weird.
@@rastas_4221 James created and writes the character, just as someone wrote and created the monster squad characters, not to mention you could get away with a lot more in the 80s with a PG13 rating.
Just certain words, maybe?
Diahoreeeeeeeee ah. Or fuck. Maybe.
I’ve never heard him say anything sexual.
Gotta be able to tell the difference between a character and a human there, bud...
Monster Squad is basically what happen when you combine the universal monsters movies and the goonies and coat it with the 80s.....and it's awesome
"The guy who directed Robocop 3"
Yeah... but before that, and Monster Squad, the guy made Night Of The Creeps, one of the best and most underrated horror/comedies of the 80s.
"Creeps" should be on Rental Reviews.
Jamston Julian 👍🏻
@bigevilworldwide1 I feel the bad for the guy, because both Night Of The Creeps and Monster Squad are quintessentially 80s movies... they should have been far more successful. And if they had been maybe his career would have worked out differently.
Frankenstein was Kane from Robocop 2
The good news is your dates are here
Whats the bad news?
They're dead.
Love that flick. That one shot of Tom Atkins' character canceling his suicide to deal with the zombie problem. Very cool
The Frankenstein holding hands scene was a reminder that Frankenstein's creation was never the monster. It was always Dr Frankenstein.
“Mummy came to my house.” And “Creature stole my Twinkie.” Are my favorite quotes from this movie.
Riddy Babbage don’t forget “WOW, Wolfman has Nards!”
My favorite scene
Horace: Man, you sure know a lot about monsters.
Scary German Guy: Now that you mention it, I suppose I do. [Scary German Guy closes door, revealing a concentration camp tattoo on his wrist]
I think its important they had that in the movie
Monster Squad is such a fun movie, the monster horror equivalent to the Goonies! I’m surprised it was PG!
I think it was before PG 13 was a thing
My copy says pg13 and no this was in 87 pg13 started in 84
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey Not sure about Monster Squad but I do remember that the VHS version of The Goonies was just PG and then the DVD version was PG-13, no idea if the theatrical version had swearing but it was all cut out of the VHS version.
@Griffith Moony PG 13 was kind of new, they still used PG throughout the 1980s for most movies.
Matt R even in the 90s PG was still pretty hardcore compared to now even freakin Casper had potty mouth
For some reason, I was expecting a more positive review.
Unfortunately the reviews that feature Justin are always negative and filled with "You can't do that's."
Hm I wonder why...
Yeah, same. I disagree with this one big time.
@Zero Cool just because you love something subjectively doesn't mean you can't still be objective about it. One doesn't have any bearing on the other.
@bigevilworldwide1 that's not factual. What people find amazing is subjective.
@bigevilworldwide1 Factually?
Care to present your 'facts' on a film which are subjective and opinion based.
I fucking love this movie.
I love Monster Squad!!! I don't care what anyone says.
Yes!!!
Iconic movie with iconic scenes. "Wolfman has nards..." come on. Just cause you didn't hear about this til the 2000's says it all.
@@ichi_go Yes!! Lol.
Dracula does explain when he finds the amulet how it got there. He’s mumbling to himself /van helsing about how van Helsing’s followers hid it there and he’s tracked them down
Seriously. Seemed like Justin didn't pay much attention to the movie.
Pssh tried to say the wolfman recreation scene was similar to T1000!?! Not even close.
I think you might be being too hard on this movie.
Completely agree with you!
Yeah just opinions tho. I personally think they were too harsh on king of the monsters but I still enjoyed the video
Residual Waste I agree with that too :)
This film is great- top 1pct of adventure movies
I love this movie
When the Angry Nerd complains about bad language...
Isn’t it ironic. 🤔
Even though the character of AVGN is not in this video I still feel ya man
drinking game: every time someone says ITS LIKE you must take shot...
What a s***** load of f*****
@Thomas Elder yes a character played by a man who is going vagina soft in his old age. It's still hypocrisy. Acting is not a hypocrisy shield.
Monster squad is horror, Goonies is adventure, Explorers is sci fi, I usually watch all three in a marathon. But basically the same plot with different genres.
That is a good marathon.
I always wanted to do Monster Squad and Night of the Creeps but this is much better.
I'm going to do that one day.
Why does everything need to have a backstory/explanation? Just stop overthinking things and enjoy it.
Wow, Justin is totally hating on this movie. Geez, man. Monster Squad is RAD!
Snack boy trying to get nit picky. “How does Dracula get the house?”
Idk Justin, how tf does he turn into bats or live forever? He’s Dracula derpnuts, he takes what he wants
😂😂😂bro be easy😂😂😂
A girl I used to work with brought up this movie one day and I was like, "Huh?" A week later, an Amazon package was delivered to me with the DVD of The Monster Squad and a note from her telling me that I needed to watch it. One of the best surprise gifts ever.
2 years ago I went to the 30th Anniversary Screening of Monster Squad and I met the cast there. It was awesome!
I like how mike got mad when James didn’t remember when he first saw monster squad 😂😂
He didn't get mad at all, you gaslighting weirdo.
This movie is absolute classic
Scary German Guy’s Bitchin!
“How do you say please don’t kill me in German” lol
Without question!
@@EvilDead24 bitte töte mich nicht
The portal opens to Limbo. They mention this a bunch of times in the movie. How did three adult people who have seen this multiple times miss that?
Diabetes makes you deaf, honestly I can't stand hi's comments, they add nothing, he sucks the energy out of any video he's in.
they missed a lot of things that were explained and referenced.
Justin has only seen it once.
@@floyd2386 That negates him from actually paying attention to the thing?
@@ConstantineFurman I'm just saying, he hasn't seen it multiple times as claimed by Chris.
If anything in this movie disturbs you, you need to go outside. This movie is fun.
No one said ever...
Like seriously, "this movie has such bad language" . What? I saw this as a kid with my parents and it was perfectly fine. Omg dracula says bitch..so? He is a bad guy
Agreed people take things to seriously today? That's why I'm glad I'm an 80s baby when people didn't complain about everything. That's why most of today's movies suck because movie makers are scared someone may get offended.
@@Eisenwulf666 Context is everything....
"You sure know a lot about monsters"
"I suppose I do"
That disturbed me a bit.
This is my all-time favourite childhood movie. I wore out so many vhs copies, that my dad got so sick of buying the movie, that he just rented it and switched out the old worn out copy with the rented copy...at least 3 times. I think I ruined 6 vhs' thorough my early to late childhood. Bless his delinquent heart.
Monster Squad is amazing! Yes, "it was the 80's, shit was different". Right on Mike!
The reason you didn't really hear about it is because the Lost Boys came out within 2 weeks of the Monster Squad! Completely overshadowed it. Regarding the language.. it was the 80s! We said a bunch of shit back then that wasn't really considered AS offensive. I think if you grew up watching it, it would hold up better. Andre Gower, who played the lead, Sean, actually made a documentary about this movie called, appropriately enough "Wolfman's Got Nards!".
Oh shit, didn't know that! Loved Lost Boys growing up. Hell, still do.
Monster Squad is fun but I don't think it holds a candle to Lost Boys. Granted, little different genres, but still...
Sad to hear
Lost Boys and Monster Squad on the same day? Great double feature!
Justin blow me this movie holds up.
August Hartman thank you!
They never said it was bizarre or foreign...
"It was the 80's though. Shit was different." And that's pretty much all that needs to be said. lol
I love when Tony has stuff to say on the reviews he's not in, so he just edits himself into it
Danny Duff Tony is my second favorite personality behind James. He’s light hearted and seems to like most things unlike Justin’s sour puss ass or Mike’s sassy mouth with all that attitude.
Danny Duff Tony is my second favorite personality behind James. He’s light hearted and seems to like most things unlike Justin’s sour puss ass or Mike’s sassy mouth with all that attitude.
@@jimjo8541 I get everyone's complaints with Justin but for some reason I find him funny
People used to say Goonies was one of those "You're an 80's kid if you've seen it.", but they show Goonies on ABC Family/Freeform all the time. THIS movie is a much better example of that.
Uncle Silver Gaming guess I’m an 80’s kid
Justin sniffed too many of his own farts before this review
And ate too many burgers
Right? Justin's a hater. This is a fun movie. His obesity prevents him from enjoying fun things.
shush
This comment is hilarious.
Wolfman got nards is amazing and i own 3 t-shirts and one hoodie version of that but "Creature stole my twinkie" doesnt get enough love. the line is almost forgotten as if never said.
1 movie 2 very classic lines
When I was a kid, I used to throw twinkies in the lake near my house because I wanted to make friends with Gillman
@@TripleShotMedia thats a great story. what jersey lake if you dont mind me asking?
@@creaturestolemytwinkie They call it Coopers Pond, but to me, it was a perfect "lake" because it was right next to a cemetery
I always loved the hardy boys line in the mansion
@@AceAllyn 'I'm in the goddamn club aren't I?"
Wow, Justin is waaaaay overthinking a super fun movie!
Yeah I'm convinced Justin doesn't like any movies that aren't totally 2019 PC approved. Hm I wonder why...
That's because Fatboy needs a whole restaurant in his belly.
I feel James. I didn't know anything about The Monster Squad until 2014 from the Nostalgia Critic. After watching Nostalgia Critics review, and watching it without his review. I ended up, liking it a lot. It is cheesy but I enjoy it.
It's a really really FUN movie. It doesn't need to explain things perfect.
"....Steve, but he doesn't count!"
DOESN'T COUNT!
Wait. As in Steve from Stranger Things?
Robert Martin PLOT TWIST
@@shawno263 I've always loved that flabbergasted reply in this movie.
A big "Oh shit!" moment for me was when the wolfman regenerated after being blown up with dynamite showing that silver is truly the only thing that can kill a werewolf.
Even the clothes regenerated
@@kurtshastany1945 That is the mark of a Ross fit
Blew all his Gnosis to soak all that damage.
"Only one way to kill a werewolf!"
But what if his limbs are being eaten. Would the tiny pieces leave the digestive system and reform the body parts? Or would the limbs simply regenerate?
If the second one is true, is this the solution to world hunger?
"Why did nobody mention Mummy Cop?"
Well, I think we know who the REAL monster squad is!
Justin is so negative towards this movie, does he even like movies?
He liked Spice World 😂
No but, he like food though.
He only likes movies ironically.
Only Shin Godzilla, cuz the director made Evangelion.
It's called an opinion. This movie is trash lol
Sometimes Justin’s negativity and contrarianism isn’t a whole lot of fun to watch.
I can respect his opinion, but I can’t help but think this video would have been more enjoyable if it were just Mike and James.
Agree.
@@Neocasturn if you think that you are just like him lol
Did you ever notice that the actress that played the mother in Goonies was the scene actress inmonster squad. I know that there is a connection but what I wanted to point out is that some people make it a fan theory that monster squad in Goonies are cousins because the mothers are twins in reality it's the same actress
I thought they would point that out when they mentioned Goonies.
“Kick him in the nards”
“Wolfman doesn’t have any nards”
-kick- -crunch-
“Wolfmans got nards”
Love that part.
The Monster Squad has a strange habit of introducing something totally serious, then going right back to zaniness. Like when the camera focusses on the old man's concentration camp tattoo...and they never bring it up again.
Yeah like when he told the boys he is used to seeing monsters or something along those lines forgive me i haven't seen that movie in a while
@@pjmcray101 wow I just got that reference - that's actually really deep. He indeed DID see real monsters, they were the Nazis. I never realized the tattoo thing before..
His name in the credits is "Scary German Guy", The tattoo is really to let us, the audience, know he's a good guy.
@@rossmorton7002 Being a victim doesn't make you good.
@@DeliberateContrarian Sure....but I guess we can all agree that if you were one of the millions of victims involved during the Holocaust, chances are you were just a random citizen picked up by racial/religious profiling and not some crazy serial killer or child rapist.
Come on now, that Werewolf scene was REALISTIC. How would you feel if you killed people as an awesomely terrifying wolfman and had to serve Dracula- and then woke up covered in blood as Uncle Rico?
Shit that is Uncle Rico isn't it
🤯
It's interesting to hear different perspectives from people who saw this at different points in their lives, because I always thought of this as one of those movies you really had to have seen as a kid to be a fan.
This movie from 1987 doesn't behold our modern language sensitivity.....the hell you say.
"Cinemassacre's got nards!"
Kick him in the nards!
NERD'S GOT NARDS?!
The BIGGEST nards!
Seen how they seem offended by the movie's language I think they lost their 'nards
@@Entropy3ko my thoughts exactly lol
"Why did no one mentioned Mummy Cop??" lol
I legit felt so bad for Tony during that, even knowing it was all a setup.
@@guerillagrueplays6301 I lol'd when he started to cry...haha!
Great, now I can't unremenber that Halloween episode of Power Rangers: Super Ninja Steel! Darn you, good sir!
Penny Dreadful, that's a series with the classic monsters
And well done, too.
Frankenstein is brilliant in that.
I have this still on VHS and DVD. I love the idea of living close enough to the drive in to have binoculars and a radio n view the movie. The closest drive-in when i was a kid was an hour away and were already in the midst of being phased out.
This was such a great movie.
Not only is it a fun Halloween movie for both adults and children, it taught us all an important lesson...
Wolfman has Nards
The guy in the middle reminds me of a young peter griffin
Just watched this with my 7 old daughter this past weekend. Classic!
Man, that Justin dude is just a bummer. He’s like Cinemasins personified.
Cinemasins is entertaining, at least.
"Cinemasins personified"
Weird, I watched this last night. It's on amazon prime if anyone is interested.
This movie is excellent, you guys have been engineered by PCness- in the 80s this movie was standard excellence
Fav as a kid and I watched with my 4yo and it’s one of her favs too now.
Martin RC me too, my daughter saw it when she was 6
Fred Savage's room in a princess Bride is awesome too
They literally say "monsters are real and nobody's going to do a thing about it but us"
I feel like a LOT of a the things they complained about were addressed in the movie and they just don't pay attention.
@@ConstantineFurman They got sucked into Justin's negativity and conceded too much.
@@llcoolray3000 Far too much.
Honestly, Justin ruined this review.
A rental review of “The Lost Boys” should be next!
I hate that movie. Same thing with Interview with a Vampire and all those other Anne Rice pieces of shit. They're just pretentious movies with homosexual undertones for teenage girls to fap to.
@@davidabest7195 Wow, someone has pretty fragile sexuality
@@davidabest7195 you sure you're not thinking of sparkles the vampire diaries
David Abest R/Inceltears
@@JackA066 I like Lost Boys , but it does have pretty obvious homosexual undertones. I am not saying that is a bad thing , it doesn't bother me. But it's there. I honestly think it might be more interesting if they played it up a bit more. Maybe in the inevitable remake.
The Halloween tree on display! that was my go-to childhood Halloween movie.
Me too still watch it every year I have two copies on VHS
Hell yeah!
I'm so glad I had seen this flick back in the early 90's as a kid.
James refers to this as the end of an era but I would say Abbott and Costello meet frankenstein was the true end of that paticular era, monster squad is an homage to that era and also the little rascals.
Agreed
Is the guy that produced AVGN on RUclips for a decade now talking about “offensive language”?? Are you kidding me?
James has two daughters, man.
This film is amazing, as someone who hasn’t seen it until 2021, it holds up. Wish I had grown up with it!
As far as I can tell. This Frankenstein's monster was trying to look more like the monster from the book more than anything.
That's my guess tho.
Universal owns the look of the Karloff monster. This movie was tri star and Paramount I belive
Universal owns the Karloff likeness which is why the bolts are on the temples rather than the neck
The only thing I remember from that old nostalgic movie is the little girl introducing Frankenstein to the boys and they go into hiding and the little girl says "dont be chicken shit!!"
I have the special edition dvd of this and they have a interview reel about the movie and they got the actress who played her and asked her about that scene and she said that was her favorite thing. She remembers asking her mom if it was ok to say that and was super stoked when she got the yes.
I love this movie and watch it every Halloween. Such an underrated classic
I never noticed until now, Frankenstein in this movie looks more like Bub from Day Of The Dead than Frankenstein!!!
He was the rain jacket guy in Last Action Hero
@@unclecreed2986 Tom Noonan. He was also Francis Dollarhide in Manhunter.
@@thetribalist6923 do you prefer Manhunter or Reddragon?
@@unclecreed2986 honestly, I like them both. Manhunter was more realistic, and Tom was scarier than Ralph Finnes, but there's more of an arc for Francis in Red Dragon. The modern presentation of Red Dragon is easier for me to watch, so gun to my head, I might go with that.
damn Justin complains about everything
Stores looking great. Business must be booming 🤓
Justin pisses me off in this review
When I was in 2nd grade in the 80's my group of friends loved this movie. We called our group of friends the monster squad and each took the nickname of one of the monsters.
this film is up their with the goonies, stand by me, the lost, boys , the explorers, and even ET
Ah yes. Parodies of all the great monsters.
Frankenstein
Dracula
Jekyll and Hyde
And of course:
...Justin.
Spock1777 Justin is a classic horror movie.
Spock1777 who’s Justin?
It’s the Marilyn from The Munsters bit.
Leave it to Justin to mainly complain about what's wrong with a movie.
Seriously. A lot of it is baseless too. Stuff he simply missed, but is complaining about not being there.
Who in the world wanted a scene showing how Dracula found the old abandoned civil war building? lol
A lot of the complaints were valid. Take off your nostalgia glasses and listen to what they're saying.
I was born in '88 and rented this movie many times and still absolutely LOVE IT to this day!
You guys need to make a supercut of james going "yeah mmm ahhh yeah ahh hah yeah" for like 10 hours or maybe like a hiphop remix.
I'm with Mike, I saw this with my friends when we were all 7 or so, and it fleshed out and related the OG monsters to our young lives.. so, so good. :)
Because of Cinemassacre and Monster Squad i went down a old school monster rabbit hole
Is it me or does Justin know nothing about movies? Every video he's in he brings nothing yo the table and has not seen the best movies.
was hilarious that everyone had some creepy opening shot, especially Justins! lmao
drinking game: every time someone says ITS LIKE you must take shot...
Dude, that's suicide
Condoning alcohol poisoning doesn't seem nice! BUT its Friday so I'm in.
☠️
Rented this movie on my 8th birthday in 1988. Everyone was entertained. Classic.
_"Hi, my name is Justin. I unironically love the terrible Doom 2005 film, now I'm going to spend half an hour complaining about how bad Monster Squad is."_
When the amulet activated, it drew all the monsters to it. Story explained. That was super hard to conclude.
I like how Justin is a heel just because he’s Justin.
I like ur vader head
Big Van Vader! They called him that because he had a big van.
VADER BOMB!!!
Terminator: Hypahmettipolyalloy.
Kid: what's that mean?
Terminator: Liquid wolf.
This and ‘La Bamba’ were my two favorite movies when I was 4 years old...I think I was a weird kid
Same and Kickboxer
That "Coming Out of Their Shells Tour" poster in the corner is legit upsetting.
My mate had wall full of VHS, including this, I would've been about 11, and it's been a firm favourite film from back in my youth