I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
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Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
View MoreOne of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
View MoreAny film that has a conversation about how to make prettier pickles is classic in my book, and this ends up being probably the best of the Bowery Boys films,an Abbott and Costello style horror film. There's a Lurch like Butler (Grisom, whom they keep referring to as Gruesome) who gets the predictable reaction when he orders Sach and Slip to "walk this way", a series of wacky relatives and an exotic Theda Bara like vamp, all gathered together in a spooky mansion where it's best to expect the unexpected. Some great character comics (among them Ellen Corby and Lloyd Corrigan) have a ball emoting dramatically for laughs. Corby has a tree monster who happens to like cats (as a snack, I'm sure), and Gruesome, err Grisom, takes a potion that makes him Mr. Hyde's long lost twin. A funny looking robot and a gorilla round out the ensemble of wacky creations/creatures.There's more laughs in this single entry than all of the series up to that time. The script is filled with funny gags and dialog ("The living of today are the skeletons of tomorrow"), and it's an interesting set design as well. Corby, looking like granny without the Tweety Bird, will delight her fans from "The Waltons", looking the same but no match for her no- nonsense matriarch as she regrets the lack of living flesh for her funny looking tree. Minimal screen time of the gang for all but Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall doesn't matter, as the wacky characters of this madhouse are entertainment enough.
View MoreThe Bowery Boys films simply went on way, way too long. After all, they made 48...not counting the ones made before this by many members of the group in such incarnations as the East Side Kids, the Dead End Kids and the Little Tough Guys! Talk about over-saturation!! And, to make it worse, after Bernard Gorcey died, his son, Leo, quit the series...and yet they still made more films!!! To make things worse, they often tended to reuse plot ideas--and the Boys ended up battling baddies in haunted houses many, many times...too many! This is why I really was not impressed with "The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters".So despite all this, is this later Bowery Boys film worth your time? Well, for some (those who hate the films), no...and for devoted fans, yes. But for the average person...it's probably NOT a good place to start. Instead, find one of their earlier films--the ones they made just after WWII.This film finds the gang going to Gravesend Manor--where the weirdos living there are anxiously awaiting the visit. At first, they are excited by how stupid Slip sounds when he phones them but upon meeting Sach they realize he's perfect for a brain transfer to a gorilla...something they actually did in several other previous films!! The lack of originality make this hard to distinguish! It's all essentially a retread...and the earlier haunted house/brain transfer with ape films were better. The only major difference? They've also got a giant silly robot in this one...ugh!
View MoreMaybe if the Bowery Boys had crossed paths with Universal Pictures along the way, they might have put together a meaningful monster flick a la Abbott and Costello. The word 'Monster' in the title is a bit of a misnomer, as all you get here is a man in an ape suit and a tin man robot that's not all that scary. My two year old granddaughter was watching the flick with me and she couldn't take her eyes off Gorog, and she was smiling the whole time.But as far as Bowery Boys flicks go, this is as entertaining as most, near the end of their run and down to only four members for this story, along with patron Louie (Bernard Gorcey). The story nominally involves the gang looking to pick up a ball field for the neighborhood kids, and wind up confounding the members of a pre-Addams Family assortment of mad scientists. In turn, Slip (Leo Gorcey) and Sach (Huntz Hall) become the target of Dr. Gravesend (John Dehner) and his brother Anton (Lyoyd Corrigan), who both need human brains for their respective scientific pursuits. I was a bit surprised to see Paul Wexler doing the 'Lurch' gimmick a full decade before Ted Cassidy gave it a whirl in the TV series a decade later.For once, Slip's malapropisms are given their proper due by Dr. Gravesend, who figures that Slip is no mental giant the way he fractures the English language. For his part, Slip doesn't disappoint with any number of his stereo-optical delusions.The entire escapade falls into a slap dash finale, not as well choreographed as say, the Marx Brothers, but still zany nonetheless. If you keep a sharp eye, you'll note it wasn't Sach under the goofy monster mask when he put the Gravesend's into those body slams and airplane spins. The stunt double they used was obviously broader in the chest and shoulders, even under the suit. In contrast, Sach did all of his own wrestling moves in the 1952 Bowery Boys film, "No Holds Barred".
View MoreGrowing up in new jersey i remember them showing the Bowery boys movies every Sunday,and being a monster fan this was my favorite Bowery boys movie,huntz hall and Leo gorcey want to turn a vacant lot into a baseball field for the Bowery kids so they will have a safer place to play baseball,actually called stick-ball in new jersey and new york. they find it is owned by some kooky Addams family types.there's a gorilla in a cage,a man eating plant,and a big clunky robot.its all slapstick hijinks when the Bowery boys show up,some people called this the poor mans Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein.though not as good its funny,especially Leo gorceys vocabulary.as a Bowery boys movie i would say its the best one.made by allied artists(earlier known as monogram pictures)the Bowery boys went through many name changes, the Clancy street boys,dead end kids,eastside kids,and later the Bowery boys.i give this vintage gem 7 out of 10.
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