La familia Monster

When I first heard about this being made I was excited but worried at the same time. Since the original the straight to DVD/TV movies were just horrible. The only Munster related show that was any good was canceled and that was "Mockingbird Lane". When I read that Rob Zombie was making a movie about the Munsters I thought to myself, he was a big fan of the TV show he will probably do this justice.. Well.. Not quite what I expected.

When I first heard that his wife was going to be playing Lily, I didn't have high hopes for that character. I will have to say I think she did a great job. I have no complaints when it comes to the actors in this movie. But when it comes to the story it is just a mess. I don't think we needed a backstory to this movie. Everyone knows the story of Frankenstein. I think all it needed was a short 20-30 minute backstory and then jump right into them living at 1313 Mockingbird Ln. The story needed to be about them adapting to where they are now living. Instead we just got a small piece of that at the very end.. The set that they built for the movie (The Munster House) Looked amazing. It looked and felt very much like the old TV show. But the sad part is we got very little time spent there. It almost felt like it was a waste to build that house if you were only going to use it at the very end of the movie.

At the end of the day I really hope people and fans see the potential of this movie. I really believe it would make a good TV show with this cast rather than a stand alone movie.. but with someone else writing the scripts. I know Rob Zombie has been complaining that the budget was slim but after seeing this movie I don't think it was the budget that hurt the movie in the end. I believe the lack of storytelling and moving the story along is where the movie fell flat.

I'd give this a 5.7 out of 10.