Review of Monster Trucks (2016) by Evan J — 26 Jan 2017

Lucas Till who looks like he's 30 plays a high school student that rides the short bus to school.

I decided to see MONSTER TRUCKS out of morbid curiosity. Between the trainwreck of a production and the fact this movie was supposed to originally come out in Summer 2015; I couldn't help but want to see the final product. All things considered this movie truly isn't that bad and I liked it to a degree. There are plenty of issues, such as the opening line of my review. It's not even necessary to have him be a high schooler, the fact he's in high school is literally touched upon for about a total of 30 seconds. The script is weak and a lot of the dialogue is lame.

Surprisingly enough this film is pretty competently made. Visually, it's actually quite impressive. The special effects are pretty decent. I mean the 125 million budget had to go into something, right? The CGI monsters look fine. The action sequences are fun. Lucas Till and my future wife Jane Levy both give good enough performances.

My biggest problem with the movie is that Till's character is a total dick to Jane Levy's character for about 70% of the movie. HOW COULD ANYONE BE MEAN TO JANE LEVY!? SHE'S A SWEET HEART! So yeah the movie's biggest problem is the writing.

Despite all the production issues this movie had the final production is actually ok/fine, which is pretty amazing all things considered. MONSTER TRUCKS is a corny kids movie that I couldn't help but to somewhat enjoy. Or maybe I'm just crazy, that could be it too.