Squad's gleeful monster mash anticipates bloated CGI orgies like Van Helsing, which likely cost a hundred times as much, yet boasts a hundredth of Squad's scrappy, ramshackle charm.

| Original Score: B | Oct 5, 2018

"The Monster Squad" is such fun, it makes you wish you were a kid again.

| Oct 5, 2018

Sharper than a stake in it's genre references, The Monster Squad appeals to cinephile as well as teen sensibilities.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 5, 2018

Dekker plays around imaginatively with the genre while delivering several nice touches.

| Feb 9, 2006

A silly attempt to crossbreed an Our Gang comedy with a classic horror film, which usually means that both genres have reached the end of the line.

| Aug 30, 2004

The movie plays like it was written with a power tool.

| Jan 1, 2000