Fans of The Munsters as you'll have no doubt have worked out be now i've been very freaking slowly working my way through all of the live action film adaptations of The Munsters. Which brings me to this review since this film is the next film in the The Munsters films series and so join me as I review the film that brought the The Munsters into the nineties with the film in question being called simply just "Here Come The Munsters" enjoy.
The plot of this film is Eddie , Herman , Lilly and Grandpa are sick and tired of their lives in Transylvania and so move to American to live with there cousin Marilyn and it turns out that Marilyn's father has been missing for sometime and to it's up to the entire Munster clan to find Marilyn's father begore Marilyn's mother dies of a broken heart. Now then in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot of this film in all honesty I in all honesty thought / felt that the actual plot of this film was really freaking good and was shockingly both engaging and very entertaining to watch play out in this very freaking film in my freaking opinion anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is Edward Herrmann as Herman Munster , Veronica Hamel as Lily Munster and Robert Morse as Grandpa. Also starring in this film is Christine Taylor as Marilyn Hyde , Mathew Botuchis as Eddie Munster , Troy Evans as Detective Warshowski , Joel Brooks as Larry Walker , Sean O'Bryan as Detective Cartwell , Mary Woronov as Mrs. Edna Dimwitty , Jeff Trachta as Brent Jekyll , Max Grodénchik as Norman Hyde , Judy Gold as Elsa Munster Hyde , Amanda Bearse as Mrs. Pearl and Francesca Smith as Monique.
Now then in terms of / as for what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well in in all honesty i in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this film was really freaking good. With Edward Herrmann in particular really capturing the spirit of Fred Gwynne's original portrayal of Herman Munster in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then this film is both a prequel to and a reboot of the original The Munsters TV series from the early to mid 1960's. Since this film goes to great lengths to explain how The Munsters got everything that we know and love from the original The Munsters TV series however enough of the already established canon is changed for it to be it's own unique thing like for example in the original TV series Marylin is Lily's niece where is in this films continuity she is Herman's niece this is a small change and it's also a rather pointless change as it adds literally nothing to the overall plot of the freaking film in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then this film does infact include a rather cool cameo from all four of the surviving original cast members from the original Munsters TV show. However what I thought to be a pretty cool thing is that all of the characters that the original cast member are playing act like there original character from the original Munsters TV show even down to Pat Priests being the odd one out which is a nice little touch in my opinion anyways / at least.
So now then there are a few things that I personally didn't like about this film with one of those things being the whole subplot of Eddie being bullied at school goes absolutely nowhere and because this is a Munsters of course there's a rather freaking rushed romance subplot with Marylin. Which again goes absolutely nowhere with both subplots being there just to give the kid characters something in this film to do in my opinion anyways / at least.
So now then I have to admit I really did like what they did with Herman's sister Elsa Munster Hyde since she's made up to look like the titular bride from the 1935 film which is called simply just "The Bride of Frankenstein" and heck even the characters first name could be seen as a reference to actress Elsa Lanchester who played the bride in the aforementioned movie. However I do find it a bit weird since Herman is meant to be designed after Frankenstein and his sister in this film is designed to look like his wife from The Bride of Frankenstein if anything it would have made some sense to make Lily look like The Monsters Bride from The Bride Of Frankenstein in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
So now then this film has / had a grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty nine minuets exactly / dead on and well in all honesty I in all honesty really didn't mind this films running time at all. This is since / because of the fact that this film has more then enough there in terms of freaking both plot and story to more then freaking cover this films freaking running time in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Now then since this film is meant to be a comedy film that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film and well if i'm being well and truly freaking honest here people the comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film is really freaking good. With alot of the jokes that are in this very film getting some really big and good laughs out me and it really does help that all of the jokes that are in this very film feel like that they've been ripped straight out of the original Munsters TV series / TV show in my freaking opinion anyways / at least.
Overall this film is in all honesty a really good reboot of these now officially iconic characters since it keeps the spirit of the original show and it keeps of the original characters whilst at the same time also updating both the show and the show and thus this films main cast of characters to the then present day of the 1990's in my opinions anyways / at least. Now i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very in this very review and as such that means that this film earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official The Munsters fandom wiki page , Wikipedia and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images that are actually from this film and that that I personally / actually used in this very review being Google Images this is simply because Google Images actually has alot of images from this film and plus alot of / nearly all of the images that are from this film and that are currently up on Google Images are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly high definition and as always we end this review as we always do which is with one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams indeed.
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