Very annoying Dick Club I might add =p

And that scene where that monster cuts off his head.... just because there's no blood in there doesn't mean it's not gruesome. We all learned that from The Pebble and The Penguin reveiw didn't we?

And my I say Congratulations about the donation. I turned into the last part of the webcast just a little before you all danced and went to bed. Great job again Critic. =D

If they stayed there during the day, they would have permantly turned into monsters.

The Critic didn't mention it, but it was stated in the movie that if the kids had stayed down in monsterville all day, they would have turned into monsters themselves.

Remember Savage was in monsterville for short periods of time before he would go back to go home or visit another person's home, and he started turn into a monster himself. So, if the kids had spent the entire day in monsterville, they would have turned into monsters.

Which I think would explain for the other monsters. They were probably kids that some how discovered monsterville, but got stuck there when the sun came up, and when they could return home the next night, they had turned into monsters and could no longer return to their lives because they would die when the sun comes up. Even Maurice said that he was a kid that had turned into a monster after staying in monsterville.

Interesting theory, but that still doesn't explain what the hell and over the shoulder boulde- OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHH i'm scared now. O_O

Pixar movies aren't shit.

Wait, did you just say that Pixar was sh*t? Pixar has never made a bad movie in their career. The only movie they've made that was less than stellar was Cars, and even that was okay.

Did you really just say that Pixar movies are shit? What the FUCK is wrong with you?

"Pixar movies might be shit"? Are you trippin', dude? Their "worst" movie was Cars, and even that was decent. Have you SEEN The Incredibles or Wall-E?!?!?!?! D8

Um, anyway... Yeah, this movie looks unpleasant and creepy. Just watching clips from this review makes me feel disturbed and uncomfortable. NC is right, it's one of those films that has potential because of a good premise, but was ever-so-poorly executed.

On that note... Anyone else notice how much looser the standards for kid's films were in the 80's? As in, they could swear more and stuff? I guess that's why this movie has the vocabulary is does.

what's with all the hating on Cars? I liked Cars. All movies from Pixar are master pieces, including Cars.

I liked Cars, but like the others above, I feel that it's definitely Pixar's weakest film.

My main problem with Cars is that it always felt just like an animated comedy and nothing more really. I didn't really connect with the characters like I did with those in Pixar's other films. With A Bug's Life, I felt for Flik and wanted him to find his place in the ant colony. With Marlin, I wanted him and Nemo to find each other and reconnect. With Cars, it didn't have this kind of impact. Lightning McQueen was just kind of a snobby racer and I didn't care much if he got to the Piston Cup or not. Pixar's movies generally entertain, but also fill you with sincere emotion and Cars didn't really do that for me.

But eh, that's just me.

The movie is supposed to be about Lightning learning that friends and being cooperative with other people is more important than fame and glory. He learns the true meaning and importance of friendship and consideration of others. How is that not a good message?

He didn't say it wasn't a good message. He said he found it difficult to relate to the character. And I can understand why: for the first half of the movie, McQueen is a total douche. Sure, we've all been total douches in our lives, and have had something right within our grasp only to risk losing it all over one stupid mistake, but you have to admit: it's kinda hard to love McQueen until we start to see him a a genuinely lovable character later in the movie.

Of course, the same can be said about Woody from Toy Story, but with one difference: he's lovable at the start, becomes a douche when his world is threatened, and only becomes lovable again once he realizes what a douche he's been.

The way I see it, most Pixar movies are about self-discovery. In Toy Story, both Woody and Buzz must discover that they aren't as great as they make themselves out to be, but that's okay, because they are loved by Andy anyway. In A Bug's Life, Flik must find his place in the ant colony as someone who can use his brains to get the job done. In Cars, McQueen has to discover that life is about more than winning and getting what you want: it's about having true friends and being a true friend to them. In The Incredibles, the whole family must learn to balance their special talents with their ordinary lives, so that they can be the true heroes that they were always meant to be. I could go on. But this is why Pixar makes such great movies: they connect with us on that emotional level. With almost every character, we can look at them and say, "Yep! I've been there!"

But I still can't help but think of McQueen as a douche. A douche who finds redemption in the end, but a douche none the less.

how is he supposed to evolve into a better person if he isn't flawed in the first place? sometimes, characters need to be unlikeable in order for them to have the room for self improvement. having an already likable character learn a life lesson that makes him even more likable and more of a good person isn't as entertaining as seeing a bad character morph into a good one. Cars has the same type of thing as A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is a selfish asshole douche too, and learns the error of his ways and becomes a better person. there is nothing wrong with Cars.

I actually prefer Cars to Ratatouille. Sure, it was formulaic, and McQueen is annoying in the beginning, but it was fun. I thought Ratatouille was boring and nonsensical. It's subject matter is uninteresting to kids (gourmet food, really?), the story is too ridiculous for adults, and the romance is only slightly more believable than Anakin and Padmé's.

If other people disagree, that's fine. I just think Cars is superior to Ratatouille.

I never liked Rataouille much either. I mean, it was a nice film, but there wasn't really anything memorable about it and unlike other Pixar movies, it didn't really have that "wow" factor and wasn't too much on the emotional level. (doesn't help that the protagonist, Remy, is a racist. Seriously. In one of the Pixar shorts where he explains the history of rats, he directly says that brown rats are superior to black rats. D8 )

well then you're a heartless idiot.

This movie was cool.... whatever. I love it, and Last Action Hero dammzit! ;)

Well, there's always something better and always something worse. A glass of moose piss is not nearly as bad as a glass of Rosie O' Donnell's poo. That doesn't mean one should go easy on the moose piss and praise it just because it's not nearly as bad Rosie poo. The moose piss still deserves hate, disgust, and criticism.

Judge something as an individual, not just how it compares to something else.

he criticizes all things nostalgic. thats his angle, so anything from the 80s-90s is up for grabs at this point.
sorry, but it looks like your going to have to learn to take it with a grain of salt.

well now that looked like a depressing movie to watch.
and at least genie is kinda funny. unlike howie mandell

love the movie lol

Eh… slow-mo this time around wasn’t as scary as SING.

Excellent jokes towards Stern in Home Alone and The Wonder Years, along with the voice over parody from the Sidekicks review. I remember watching this film for the first time and thinking how weird it was to see Stern and Savage as father and son. Doug also closely resembles Stern. Also, the kid who played Ronnie, the bully, was Buzz in Home Alone.

That Pazuzu! lolz

NICE lyrics to the montage sequence.

Funny to see the use of The Genie from Aladdin. It was written by the same writers of this film.

I can’t believe he didn’t comment on Maurice pulling down Brian’s pants. That was more disturbing than seeing the kids being punished.

I knew the “FOOD!” reference was coming a mile away.

Finally, he said that “we are literally given no introduction” to the Boy character, but Snik referred to him in every scene he was in. Not a great set-up, but it’s still a set-up.

I have not laughed at an NC that hard in a while!

My thoughts exactly. I like the film and it felt more like a good roast, which is the reviews of his I like the best.

we have a film aimed at children containing mythical creatures afraid of sunlight, breaking into love interest's rooms as they're sleeping, antagonists who antagonize for no reason and the film imparting absolutely awful morals and messages...

is this "Twilight?"

I wonder how much Doug threw up while adding the scenes from Twilight...

yeah, seriously, that part almost killed me. I'm just minding my own business watching the Nostalgia Critic and BOOM! a scene from Twilight comes outta nowhere. that hurt. that physically hurt me. and I've never actually seen that movie, nor do I stay on the same channel whenever a commercial for it comes on. and I gotta say, if that scene is anything like the rest of that movie, then it sucked far beyond what I dared to imagine. somebody needs to die.

Stephanie Meyer. Stephanie Meyer needs to die.

And guess what? The books are WORSE.

I'm not kidding here. They are the literary equivalent of a serial killer. Those books find everything good, true, and inspiring about literature and rape and slaughter them until all that's left is an ugly casing of skin that looks nothing like the original.

That imagery may be icky but because of those horribly written, pointless, degenerating pieces of shit, I've had to deal with my 17 year-old younger sister PUT UP TWILIGHT POSTERS ON HER WALL.

Meyer has destroyed teenage literature for years to come. More than that, she has irreversibly tainted and damaged the whole gothic-vampire subset of the fantasy-horror genre beyond belief.

Anne Rice's sanity must be spinning in its grave.

My only theory to why Twilight is so popular is that it is the equivalent of porn for female idiots.
(I've met plenty of girls who hate Twilight just as much as the rest of us do)

REALLY?! Sorry if I was being rude there for a sec, but come on. If you've read the book (I made the mistake of doing so... *shudders* never again...) there is so much unnecessary detail given by Bella about how sexy Edward is and how gorgeously pale his skin is. (I just assumed she had a white guy fetish) If the commercials and merchandise are anything to judge by, Jacob in the second movie spends a LOT of time running around with his shirt off. That IS the only reason it's popular, dude. The book was really nothing but Bella fawning over guys. The girls who read and enjoy the books do so because they like hearing about how hot Edward is.

Sorry you had to read the book. Seriously...

Take my advice and DON'T EVEN TOUCH IT. Seriously. It was so horrible I read nothing but comic books for like, three months after I finished it. You can tell from the first page that you're going to hate the protagonist. (she's just so damn whiny and shallow...)

"Stephanie Meyer needs to die"

yes, that is pretty much what I meant. but not just her. those disgusting Hollywood producers and directors, those HIDEOUS looking actors (although that's probably because of movie makeup and special effects) who signed on for the movie, everyone who had a part in that movie is also to blame.

and, actually, no, the books are not worse. in the books we didn't have to actually SEE that nauseating, gruesome Robert Pattinson. we didn't have to put up with trailers and commercials that attempted to rape our eyes and ears. in fact, if you'll believe it, the book's copyright date is 2005. that's right, Twilight existed in this world, was available for anyone to pick up and read for THREE YEARS before it became so popular. and why has it become so popular? because of that horrible, HORRIBLE MOVIE!!! that abomination of film is the ONLY reason that twilight is as famous and popular as it is. if it wasn't for Hollywood, not even a third of the Twihards would even know it existed.

the existence of the movie does not add to or subtract from the shittiness of the story itself, but if it didn't exist then we wouldn't have to put up with the book nearly as much. it would just be some sappy diary entry sitting on the bottom shelf in some remote corner of Boarders gathering dust, and we wouldn't have to even acknowledge it. but because of the disgusting movie adaptation, twilight is as famous as Harry Potter or LotR, and that's a disgrace. all because of Hollywood. Stephanie Myer may have been the one to take the shit, but it was Hollywood who took that shit and rubbed it all over the world, forcing and cramming it into our lives.

Yeah, but if the book didn't exist, there would'nt even be a movie.

well, yeah, if the book didn't exist that would be awesome too, but my point is that the movie is the only reason that it's as popular as it is. if the movie didn't exist, there wouldn't be as great a need for the book not to exist.

im just so used to seeing howie bald that when theres anything on that head, hair or horns, i start to question whether that is him or not


btw the casting definitely is quite convenient

I'll always associate Howie Mandel with "Bobby's World" -- largely thanks to the slightly bizarre practice of having Howie interact with the cartoon before each episode.

So wait... you -did- like Beetlejuice, right?

The Bettlejuice snake was featured on the Top 11 Scariest Nostalgic Moments list. So, he Must like it. I also liked it as a kid, but not so much now.

I saw Howie Mandell on the cast list on imdb. I thought maybe this movie had a shot of being good. Turns out I was wrong.

80'S MONTAGE!!

I hate to inform you critic.... but you spelled "boulder" wrong....

Dushy, is that you?

You spelled Doushy wrong

You spelled Douchey wrong.

Oh yeah?
Well, you spelled SHUT UP wrong! :D

Sorry for the misspell.

It's not "Douchey" ?

You know, not everyone who points out a mistake the Nostalgia Critic makes is a Douchey McNitpick. The key point is for them to be a douche about it.

Didn't the Critic tell us to point out his spelling mistakes, because he would never learn otherwise, as long as we do so without being annoying? The Soda Jerk was clearly obeying that request.

Awesome review. :)

I always remember seeing this movie at the video store when I was a kid and thinking it looked really weird... Now I'm glad I never watched it, holy shit it looks terrible.

Great review Doug!

I love your callbacks to The Wizard, and I can tell you're going to get mileage out of the "FOOD!" However, by not addressing Howie Mandel debagging Fred Savage, you missed a good chance to bring back either the "Bad Touch" or "Sonic Says-Sexual Harassment" jokes.

I also note that Howie has been bald for so long, I don't even remember when he had hair, so this is odd seeing him like this.

they actually do explain why they take the little brother.

The current "leader" of the little monsters is called boy, and he wants as many monsters under his control as possible.

Since every monster used to be a kid, Savage is boy's next choice for monsterdom. so when Savage stops going, he loses a possible monster. This pisses off the spoiled little wretch. hence the kidnapping.

This movie was nightmare fuel for me as a kid. I kept having this fear that Howie Mandel would pop out from under my bed...I'm still afraid of that.

dude, i'm pretty sure that would give ANYONE nightmares

It gave me nightmares as a kid. Now, most of my nightmares are about weird-looking monsters with sharp teeth.

Then again, I was also scared of Are You Afraid of the Dark?.

Howie Mandel was Gizmo? i guess you do learn something everyday

And knowing is half the battle. G.I. JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOE!! !

well played

Oh Howie Mandell how much you annoy me. >:(

Great video Doug! :D

I get the distinct impression that very few of the writers for this film had children of their own.
I mean, seriously, a decapitation? What the hell, writers? What the hell? That's worse than Bambi's mum! ...Sorry, Skippy. I mean, "Bumby's mom," of course.

Yay Jurassic Park! :D

Yay Monty Python! :D

All this needed was a Princess Bride reference, specifically one related to Savage, to remind me that he has indeed been in movies that are enjoyable and funny.

I agree about the head decapitation. If I want to see head decapitations (which have meaning and purpose), I'll go with any horror film and the first Highlander film.

Damn, for a kids movie I though the head decapitation was pretty morbid. There wasn't blood or anything, but his arms still moving around was pretty frightning. It actually reminded me of Return to Oz...*shudder*

And wow, pissng in an apple juice bottle take pranks to a whole new level, lol.

Fun Fact: Pissing in apple juice and someone drinking it spreads disease. NOT FUNNY.

I don't think Naruto was originally made for children, was it?

I remember being a kid and seeing the preview to this movie and I thought to myself, "That looks stupid, who wants to see that?" And back then I WAS the target audience. You know you're doing something wrong when a child (target audience) thinks your movie is stupid.

SO MANY MEMORIES. O_O Wow. God this was horrible.

I remember watching this movie as a little kid too...

Wow... it's nothing like I remember... O.o

80s montage! Dang, that sucked.

I absolutely want an mp3 of that 80's montage song >>

I also enjoy "Monsters, Inc." because I didn't watch anything like it before.

Howie Mandel's character immediately reminded me of Drop Dead Fred.

I think the Scary Slo-Mo in this episode is the scariest one so far.

I call the ending of "Skyline" a mini-holocaust of expectation. ...Why the hell did I see that stupid movie?

11:26- And so, an idea for "Malcom in the Middle" was born.

Over the shoulder boulder holder sounds like a braw from the Dr. Seuss universe.

13:54- You and me both, dude.

Should we call the teddy bear drill scene as a Big Lipped Alligator Moment?

"Little Monsters" is a hair close of being just as awful and stupid as "Garbage Pail Kids." Now if you'll excuse me, I need to throw-up after mentioning that goddamn movie.

I saw this as a little kid, around the same time as Drop Dead Fred. Because of that, I'd been thinking they were the same movie until the Critic reviewed DDF. Until this review, I thought Little Monsters was just something I imagined or dreamed about.

Well, Critic, thank you for digging up disturbing parts of my chilhood memories. Hard to believe you're nine years older than me.

I misspelled "childhood." I see that now.

I actually recall bits and pieces of this moive when I saw it when I was very young, which thankfully now that I have seen this review I am very gald I forgot it.

Just wow this moive was horrible.

I get the feeling that this is a film you might've never had seen unless you owned it as a VHS...and when my dad told me recently that he didn't like me watching Ninja Turtles (at 5) because it was too violent, I get the feeling my family kept me away from this film for my own good.

Because of this I only saw parts of the film when it aired on TV and I was confused and intrigued enough to forever be haunted by it (for not fully remembering what it was about other then a blue monster and Fred Savage). Sorry to say Critic, despite you're warning, I still want to see this movie and make my own opinion about it.

What I saw as a kid was really gritty, mean, dark, and it was about monsters. For a movie about monsters, I wouldn't have expected this movie to be cute, fluffy, light hearted and free of nightmare fuel. It was being creepy and mean for the kids who couldn't take the terrifying gore of the slasher films their older brothers watched.

Plus why does a movie have to be mean spirited and need to have a moral? It's messed up for sure, but I think Fred saw that when he did bad things, bad things happened to him...though his dad is such a creepy ass in this movie, I think the parents getting a divorce was a reward.

Frankly good review, but it's another Critic turning a mole hill into a mountain. So long as it's not Garbage Pale Kids, this movie can't be that bad.

You DO realize that exaggeration for comedic purposes has always been part of the Critic's act, right (like many other reviewers on this site)? Of course you don't have to agree with him, but take his reviews with a grain of salt. HE'S certainly not taking them seriously.

Also, you seem to be saying that Fred's parents divorcing might have been a result of his actions. Now there's a terrific message for kids - if your parents divorce, it's somehow your fault. Not to mention that plot point never really went anywhere, so it didn't seem to serve any purpose other than a poor attempt at a dramatic twist.

There's certainly nothing wrong with things for children being creepy - there are plenty of acclaimed books and such that prove this - but the kind of creepy in this movie wasn't the fun kind. A decapitation? Someone breaking into your house and getting you in serious trouble for something you didn't do? That's not funny, that's just disturbing. Are You Afraid of the Dark? and even some of the Goosebumps books had plenty of creepy moments (at least for their target audiences), sure, but they were the kind of scary that wouldn't scar a kid for life and was even funny at times.

As to the review: nice work as usual, NC! I liked your creative "Wizard" joke at the end ("Cawwifornia" would have been funny, but too obvious), the Twilight clip was hilarious, and I had to pause twice from laughing at your '80s montage song. 8-)

I'm criticizing the critic. For all the people who'll say this was the funniest thing they ever saw, I'll the one to say that it was just so-so.

What he did do right was bring up how awful Howie Mandel was in the film. It was like all that makeup on him was putting his OCC on the fritz and he couldn't do anything but move around like a puppet and yell out in frustration. He was tweekin.

Eh, when you want to make a "creepy" kid's film, there is still a limit. Ever see "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy", or perhaps "Courage the Cowardly Dog"? Those two TV shows, aimed at children, did it right. They were creepy and focused heavily on the supernatural, but they weren't downright disturbing and they didn't serve as Nightmare Fuel Stations.

I get what you're saying, that if the movie was ment for kids it should've been kids friendly, but we might be using our adult 2010 minds to pass judgment here. Cause I never saw the full movie when I was a kid, all I can say was that the movie looked pretty cool for my young 1990s mind. I don't think I would've made the connection that Freddy and Howie were doing bad things with no fear of punishment for it. That might've been the "magic" of the underground world, you can get away with being a little shit. Granted even movie makers in the 90s thought differently then they do now. Movies in the 90s got away with things and didn't suffer punishment for it, except for a bunch of tormented scared children...which is us now.

As for nightmare full, I'll just quote Eddy from Ed, Edd, and Eddy, "A little childhood trauma builds character." Maybe it's cause kids today don't have nightmare fuel the way we did they're a little more boring? I would say the things that scared me as a child influenced my own art and creations, and who's to say there weren't children creeped out over images from Courage either? I praise nightmare fuel, cause then how should we know what to really be afraid of?

Because there are no morals in this film, I can understand why there isn't a big cult fallowing or why parents don't share the film with their children. We all want this film to disappear because it gives us nothing of value.

Kids have plenty of Nightmare Fuel these days, honey. There are certain episodes of Spongebob that have a few jarring scenes. Especially that cleanliness vs. dirtiness episode, and, oh God, the teleporter episode. D8 And, have you seen Avatar: The Last Airbender? Koh the Face Stealer is like, number two on my personal top eleven list of scariest animated characters. I really do appreciate good Nightmare Fuel...

But, there's Nightmare Fuel and then there's just being downright disturbing. When watching clips of a movie makes you want to throw up in your own mouth a little, (I was just recovering from a bout of nausea when I watched this review) it's pretty bad. It's really just unpleasant. You can have Nightmare Fuel without being gross. Ever watch Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water? The villian, Gargoyle, is WORSE than Koh the Face Stealer, but there's also a certain scene from one episode where *SPOILER ALERT* Mr. Fait dies. That particular scene was pretty jarring; I was just horrified watching it. D8 (although I'm not sure if that's considered a children's show)

As for morals... I don't really care whether or not a film has a moral, but if it's not even entertaining, well, like you said, it gives nothing of value.

Nope, sorry, Annie-Mae won this argument. Also, all you people here, who I presume are grownups or at least over 18, seem to still be watching children's cartoons. When I was growing up during the 80s and 90s I seldom or never watched cartoons, because even as a kid I found them, well, childish. I grew up with movies like Alien(s), The Terminator, Jaws, Friday the 13th etc. They scared me intensely and sometimes gave me nightmares. And I quite like the way I turned out. And despite me not really liking cartoons as a kid, I became a painter. In fact, when I think about it, the older I get the softer I become. Give kids some credit, I know I loved gore and horror a lot more back then.

Btw, using the word "honey" like that was needlessly condescending.

I saw this movie on TV awhile ago i didn't think it was that bad

"Appalling." What happened to the spell check?

I remember seeing bits and pieces of this movie when I was a kid. Glad I didn't stand by to watch what it really was xD my brain probably would've melted...

Oh my gosh, thank you for this!