{"id":30642,"date":"2022-09-29T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30642"},"modified":"2022-09-30T21:56:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T01:56:50","slug":"rob-zombies-the-munsters-2022-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30642","title":{"rendered":"Rob Zombie’s “The Munsters” (2022) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Munsters<\/em><\/strong> (2022)<\/p>\n

Director:\u00a0 Rob Zombie<\/strong><\/p>\n

Screenplay:\u00a0 Rob Zombie <\/strong>based on the television show The Munsters<\/em> by Allan Burns, Chris Hayward<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stars:\u00a0 Cassandra Peterson, Sheri Moon Zombie, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Richard Brake, Daniel Roebuck, Dee Wallace, Sylvester McCoy, Pat Priest, Jorge Garcia, Catherine Schell <\/strong>and Butch Patrick<\/strong>
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The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers…<\/p>\n

The Munsters<\/em> was a television comedy that ran for two seasons from September 1964 to May 1966.\u00a0 The show featured a family of monsters living in the suburbs.\u00a0 The family consisted of Herman Munster, based on Frankenstein’s monster; his vampire wife, Lilly; their son Eddie (a werewolf); Lilly’s father, Grandpa who was a vampire and their niece, Marilyn who was pretty by conventional standards (but the family thought of her as unattractive).\u00a0 The comedy came from neighbors’ reactions to the Munsters and the family’s interactions with each other and normal folks.<\/p>\n

Rob Zombie’s reboot explores how Herman and Lilly first fell in love.\u00a0 I wanted to like The Munsters<\/em>.\u00a0 While I wasn’t a huge fan of the original series, I did watch it as a child.\u00a0 My wife who is just a few months younger than me was a huge fan.\u00a0 She had high hopes for the reboot.\u00a0 We started watching and she was ready to bail after the first few scenes.\u00a0 Ultimately we stuck with it for about 30 minutes before tapping out.<\/p>\n

Part of the problem is the movie starts with several scenes and no Munster in sight.\u00a0 Instead we have a mad scientist and his halfwit hunchback, Floop (I kid you not.\u00a0 His name is Floop.\u00a0 Is that supposed to get a cheap laugh?) robbing graves.\u00a0 When Floop is sent to retrieve the brain of one of the world’s smartest men, he instead brings back the man’s brother’s brain.\u00a0 The world’s smartest man and his brother, who happens to be one of the world’s dumbest men both conveniently (for the joke to work) died within hours of each other.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Grandpa is trying to hook Lilly up with a Nosferatu-looking vampire.\u00a0 We get to see them on a date.\u00a0 Lilly’s brother (a werewolf) is trying to get Grandpa to sell the house.\u00a0 Meanwhile the mad scientist is creating Herman.\u00a0 Oh, and there’s scenes of Grandpa watching Transylvania tv talk shows.<\/p>\n

Does this sound like fun or anything even remotely funny?\u00a0 If you think so, then give The Munsters<\/em> a go.\u00a0 It wasn’t for me… or my wife who is a Munster<\/em>‘s fan.\u00a0 Of course your mileage may differ.<\/p>\n

The Munsters <\/strong><\/em>earns 1 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n

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