![]() ![]() Pun intended writers Billy Eddy, Matt Eddy, and Jenny Jaffe delight in penning monster humor and retooling familiar high school scenarios around monster problems. It’s hard not to be charmed by how fiercely they go to bat for each other. The monster trio’s quick acceptance of each other’s quirks begins an endearing friendship that anchors the entire movie. ![]() There’s a much firmer commitment to practical makeup applications regarding the characters and ensuring they match their doll counterparts. It’s not the school that’s important here anyway, but the core friendships between Clawdeen, Frankie, and Draculaura. ![]() Even better is that the more Clawdeen becomes comfortable at her new school, the more the set pieces embrace the practical. Luckily, the catchy song and dance number that ensues, introducing key players in the process, helps distract from the initial rocky VFX. A quick emotional parting with dad and Clawdeen’s singing her way on the moonlit path to an atrociously CG gothic right out of a cartoon. All that newfound acceptance threatens to come toppling down when strange happenings and body changes threaten to expose Clawdeen’s human half.ĭirector Todd Williams serves up a breezy romp through Monster High, never slowing down a second in this wholesome monster tale about getting comfortable in your own skin. ![]() Clawdeen quickly makes friends with roommates Frankie Stein ( Ceci Balagot ) and Draculaura ( Nayah Damasen ), enemies with Cleo de Nile ( Jy Prishkulnik ), and even forms a crush on the kind Deuce Gorgon ( Case Walker ). That means she’ll have to keep her human heritage a secret. Feeling shunned by humans, Clawdeen decides to follow in mom’s footsteps and attend Monster High, a school reserved solely for those with true monster hearts. Its popularity only continues to grow, resulting in a new live-action movie for tweens, full of catchy tunes and monster charm – just in time for Halloween.Ĭlawdeen Wolf ( Miia Harris ) struggles to find her place in the world as a half human and half werewolf teen. Mattel’s Monster High toy line gave a classic monster twist to dolls along with a web series that segued into other forms of media to flesh out the dolls’ fictional stories. ![]()
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