'Monster Squad' is basically 'Goonies' vs. the Universal Monsters. There is a plot, I mean the movie explains why they're there, and terrorizing a mid sized American town. This is the second film directed by Fred Dekker, whose film 'Night of the Creeps' came out the previous year and I'm kind of partial to it, and not just because of Jill Whitlow. Both films are well witty, quite well written and full of self conscious genera references.
Watching 'Monster Squad' today the pure 80'sness of it stands out, including troupes and humor you probably wouldn't see if the film was made today. The movie never fully mainstreamed, it's got a cult following but never made the 'cannon' of 80's family fair, because frankly it might have been a little too naughty. **1/2
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