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Mystery Monsters

  • 1997
  • PG
  • 1h 21m
IMDb RATING
4.2/10
227
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Mystery Monsters (1997)
Trailer for Goobers!
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Tommy has just joined the cast of the top-rated kids' show, "Captain Mike's Mystery Monsters," and is anxious to find out just how the special effects crew gets the monsters to work. Imagine... Read allTommy has just joined the cast of the top-rated kids' show, "Captain Mike's Mystery Monsters," and is anxious to find out just how the special effects crew gets the monsters to work. Imagine his surprise when he discovers they're not special effects at all! Adding to the situatio... Read allTommy has just joined the cast of the top-rated kids' show, "Captain Mike's Mystery Monsters," and is anxious to find out just how the special effects crew gets the monsters to work. Imagine his surprise when he discovers they're not special effects at all! Adding to the situation, the monsters' original owner, evil Queen Mara, has returned to Earth to reclaim her pro... Read all

  • Director
    • Charles Band
  • Writer
    • Neal Marshall Stevens
  • Stars
    • Ashley Tesoro
    • Tim Redwine
    • Daniel Hartley
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.2/10
    227
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Charles Band
    • Writer
      • Neal Marshall Stevens
    • Stars
      • Ashley Tesoro
      • Tim Redwine
      • Daniel Hartley
    • 8User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • Videos1

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    Goobers!

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    Ashley Tesoro
    Ashley Tesoro
    • Susie
    • (as Ashley Cafagna)
    Tim Redwine
    • Tommy
    Daniel Hartley
    • Jimmy
    Michael Dennis
    • Captain Mike
    Caroline Ambrose
    • Queen Mara
    Sam Zeller
    Sam Zeller
    • Groon
    J.W. Perra
    J.W. Perra
    • Mr. Hildebrandt
    Tom Thomson
    • Stage Manager
    Eileen Wesson
    • Mom
    Alli McGuire
    • Receptionist
    Lee Hatch
    • T.V. Director
    Robert Craighead
    Robert Craighead
    • Attorney
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Charles Band
    • Writer
      • Neal Marshall Stevens
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    6Joropukki

    Back to the Limbo, but with Six Points for Absurdity

    Funny thing, I see why this flick hasn't scored too well so far, but it still tickles my funny bone. Sort of schizophrenic, I guess. The acting looks like a school play, the special effects are lousy-ish, but there's a certain absurdity that makes it watchable. Maybe a contact between stylish devilish entities and Hollywood folks could really be like this.

    One important thing in watching a movie is to become curious about how it will go on and be finished, and here a positive tension arises, because the storyline blatantly equates the devilish visitors with movie making people. Hollywood is Hellwood.

    The dolls are nice and the baddies stylish. Watching Mystery Monsters brought up the inner four-year old me. I childishly give this one six points.
    8cmoreland-50752

    So cringey but I LOVED this movie as a kid

    I gotta be real about this movie. It is cheesey and "bad" in every way that a B-movie from the 90s would be. But we had it on VHS as a kid and I watched it all the time. Am I bias from nostalgia? Yeah probably.

    Mystery Monsters sort of reminds me of a low-budget Labyrinth (Labyrinth fans please don't come at me!) It's got weird puppets, the cheesiest evil queen lady, kids figuring out a mystery and trying not to get in trouble... some fun adventure elements that kids will enjoy even if the acting and writing is unbearable at times. It's wonderful in every "bad" way!

    I used to pop this baby into our little portable VHS TV and stick it in the back of the car to watch while on road trips...Nostalgia box checked. You probably won't love this movie, but your kids might!
    10thecolonade

    A masterpiece

    charles band excites and delights with horrific monsters and creepy David icke scaring reptilians. A great title i will be exposing my future children to, I am a huge full moon fan though ... the style of the monsters the in jokes the slight tongue in cheek nature its all there subtle and magnificent!!!!

    Watch if you love puppet master or ghoulies or hideous! or head of the family or demonic toys ...but you are looking after some kids and you want to give hem nightmares for years to come ahaahahhaha

    genius a rip roaring success

    10 out of 10 BRAVO CHARLES BAND
    613Funbags

    Better than the others say.

    It's low budget but not in a bad way. They saved money by only having a few characters and sets. The acting, story and over all look wasn't bad for a 20 year old kids movie. The only thing I didn't like was that the evil queen didn't know some words but quickly understood their complex definitions. As someone who has seen loads of bad movies, I know that's common among aliens who come to Earth so I can let it slide. I didn't really understand the ending but it didn't change my opinion. But it's a kids movie and they won't over think it and will probably love the end. The version I saw was called Goobers!, which was a much better name. After seeing the original name it's easy to understand why they changed it.
    4lee_eisenberg

    that's the most accurate description of the FBI that I've ever heard

    Charles Band's "Mystery Monsters" is one of those second- (or third-)rate TV movies made to appeal to the tykes. It focuses on a kids' show whose grotesque stars turn out to be monsters from another dimension whose queen is after them. Yeah, it's obvious that they didn't put much if any thought into this.

    I didn't give it a one-star rating simply because the sheer weirdness and over-the-top cringey acting makes it the sort of movie that you have to see to believe. Well, if you can tolerate something this lowbrow. If you expect anything even remotely intelligent, then you'll want to avoid this like the plague.

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    • Trivia
      The film's trailer re-uses music from Trancers 4: Jack of Swords (1994) and Trancers 5: Sudden Deth (1994).
    • Alternate versions
      There is a Blockbuster exclusive release of this title that runs just under an hour.
    • Connections
      Edited from Doctor Mordrid (1992)

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    • Release date
      • July 29, 1997 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Goobers!
    • Production companies
      • Pulsepounders
      • The Kushner-Locke Company
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 21m(81 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • DX Stereo

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