Love and Monsters (2021)
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- Synopsis:
In the distant future, mankind is facing complete extinction after the earth has been overrun by a wave of various monsters. The last groups of people have sought shelter in underground bunkers, where they are living more than badly. One of them is the young Joel Dawson (Dylan O'Brien), who is the only single in a group of 18 couples who does not even meet a minimum of love and who wants nothing more than a girlfriend. As luck would have it, one day Joel's Bunker receives the radio signal from Aimee (Jessica Henwick), who lives an equally lonely life only 30 miles away from Joel. Although the connection is poor and only remains stable for a short time, Joel sees the rescue from his misery in the voice from the radio and decides to put everything on one card: willing to conquer the love of his life, he sets off on the way their. But the multitude of creatures, - Actors:
- Dylan O'Brien, Jessica Henwick, Michael Rooker, Dan Ewing, Ariana Greenblatt, Ellen Hollman, Tre Hale, Pacharo Mzembe, Senie Priti, Amali Golden, Te Kohe Tuhaka, Tasneem Roc, Tom Feary-Campbell, Joel Pierce, Melanie Zanetti, Bruce Spence, Hazel Phillips, Miriama Smith, Andrew Buchanan, Tandi Wright
- Directors:
- Michael Matthews
- Producers:
- Dan Cohen, Shawn Levy
- Writers:
- Brian Duffield, Matthew Robinson
- Others:
- Brian Cox, Matt Sloan, Genevieve Camilleri, Matt Everitt
- Aka:
- Monster Problems
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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- Release Date:
- Not released
- Run Time:
- 109 minutes
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Fun Filled Creature Feature - Love and Monsters review by GI
A fun filled family fantasy movie reminiscent of those wonderful matinees from years ago such as The Lost World (1960) and Jason & The Argonauts (1963), and in similar vein to Zombieland (2009), with a tongue-in-cheek adventure story full of those scary thrills that appeals to the young and the young at heart. The story here is that the multiple missiles fired to destroy an approaching asteroid resulted in radiation fallout contaminating the world and causing insects, amphibians etc to mutate into giant monsters. Survivors have fled to various ramshackle bunkers and seven years after the event hapless Joel (Dylan O'Brien) yearns to see his former girlfriend Aimee (Jessica Henwick) who is 85 hazardous miles away. With hopeless survival skills Joel heads off to find her. The film is funny and has a central hero who shrugs his way through the dangers barely making it each time when he is pursued by various creatures all of which are superbly constructed with CGI. O'Brien plays the part of a lovesick fool just right mixing accidental heroics with utter hopelessness. There's a cute dog thrown in just to make it all the more appealing. Like with most apocalyptic narratives it turns out its the humans who are the most dangerous. Michael Rooker has a cameo in this entertaining little film that's just right for family viewing.