{"id":450,"date":"2006-08-04T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/churchofthemasses\/2006\/08\/monster-house-great-story\/"},"modified":"2006-08-04T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T18:10:00","slug":"monster-house-great-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/churchofthemasses\/2006\/08\/monster-house-great-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster House Great Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I don\u2019t have time to do a full review here as we are in the last weekend of the Writing Program.  However, I do want to give a thumbs up to Columbia Pictures\u2019 <em>Monster House<\/em>.  It\u2019s a very clever story.  Really clever.<\/p>\n<p>(I offer it as a beginner\u2019s textbook to those who thought that <em>Lady in the Water<\/em> was a good story. More on this later\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>My only question watching it was whether it is too creepy for the kids for whom animated films about Halloween should be the main audience. I think it would be fine for ten year olds and up.  I would be wary of littler kids going \u2013 NOTE TO AL:  I think it would be too much for Little John.<\/p>\n<p>But it is a good piece of work.  Again, a good story.  Nothing extra.  Great execution.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t have time to do a full review here as we are in the last weekend of the Writing Program. However, I do want to give a thumbs up to Columbia Pictures\u2019 Monster House. It\u2019s a very clever story. Really clever. 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