Kelly WandMad Monster Party
October 21st 2006 03:41
In life, we become a series of people. Our five year old selves would not recognise the concerns of our fifteen year old selves and visa versa. Any relationship those characters will have to our forty five year old selves is purely coincidental.
The child I was remembers this film. He had a Gold Key Comics adaptation too. The title said it all, really. This was his favourite film in the whole world ever. All the monsters were there and they were having a party. Frankenstein, Dracula, The Invisible Man, The Wolfman, The Mummy, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. They all turned up. Except they were cute clay-mation kind of puppet things. Boris Karloff voiced Uncle Boris Frankenstein. The puppet looked just like him, too. Could it get any better. Only if King Kong turned up.
There was a band with skeletons playing what I thought sounded like the coolest music ever. There were food fights. There was Francesca the puppet monster girl who helped define my growing sense of heterosexuality. It was all good.
I’d tell people about this film but no-one had heard of it. Well, I knew someone had. There wouldn’t have been much of “A Nightmare Before Christmas” if Tim Burton had not had his childhood similarly warped by this genre classic.
Finally, I have found it and I want to share the good news with you. Sure, it’s a Region 1 Disc but it is a Region 1 Disc from Anchor Bay. It features the kind of loving packaging these guys are famed for. It has a groovy little booklet with lots of pictures. When you see it, you will want it too.
Look, I’ll be honest with you. The action is paced a little slowly, the animation a fraction off. The jokes are not as side-splittingly hilarious as my younger self would have me believe. It is still way cool.
Some expectations cannot be lived up to and the expectations of a hyperactive eight year old take a lot of topping. With that in mind, you should still take the plunge. Any film that features the line “Go, Zombie Birdmen, Go!” can’t be anything less than brilliant.
The child I was remembers this film. He had a Gold Key Comics adaptation too. The title said it all, really. This was his favourite film in the whole world ever. All the monsters were there and they were having a party. Frankenstein, Dracula, The Invisible Man, The Wolfman, The Mummy, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. They all turned up. Except they were cute clay-mation kind of puppet things. Boris Karloff voiced Uncle Boris Frankenstein. The puppet looked just like him, too. Could it get any better. Only if King Kong turned up.
There was a band with skeletons playing what I thought sounded like the coolest music ever. There were food fights. There was Francesca the puppet monster girl who helped define my growing sense of heterosexuality. It was all good.
I’d tell people about this film but no-one had heard of it. Well, I knew someone had. There wouldn’t have been much of “A Nightmare Before Christmas” if Tim Burton had not had his childhood similarly warped by this genre classic.
Finally, I have found it and I want to share the good news with you. Sure, it’s a Region 1 Disc but it is a Region 1 Disc from Anchor Bay. It features the kind of loving packaging these guys are famed for. It has a groovy little booklet with lots of pictures. When you see it, you will want it too.
Look, I’ll be honest with you. The action is paced a little slowly, the animation a fraction off. The jokes are not as side-splittingly hilarious as my younger self would have me believe. It is still way cool.
Some expectations cannot be lived up to and the expectations of a hyperactive eight year old take a lot of topping. With that in mind, you should still take the plunge. Any film that features the line “Go, Zombie Birdmen, Go!” can’t be anything less than brilliant.
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