Monster Brawl

Monster Brawl

Far less clever

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Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2012

Finally! A movie for those who find professional wrestling too highbrow. In a nutshell, this overextended, underdeveloped comedy sketch pits four “creatures” (Wolf Man, Cyclops, Swamp Gut and Witch Bitch,) against four “undead” (Zombie Man, Frankenstein, Lady Vampire and the Mummy) in a WWF-type elimination smackdown. Writer/director/producer Jesse Thomas Cook is to be commended for his attention to the comic details such a mongrel-movie premise suggests, but overall, this plot-free one-joke monster mash-up is mainly bad actors in bad makeup, and far less clever than it thinks it is.