Munster, Go Home! Film Review

When people think of scary but family friendly horror families they usually only think of The Addams Family and for good reason. Yet not alot of them no that around the same time as that show was starting another family of monsters was just starting out The Munsters and while they aren't as well known today as they were back in the day with even there latest film being that god awful Rob Zombie movie it doesn't change the fact that they did have one theatrically released movie starring alot of the TV actors and it's that very film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today and so then join me as I review the film that sees The Munsters appear in color with the film in question being called simply just "Munster, Go Home!" enjoy.

The plot of this film Herman finds himself becoming the lord of a town in England and along with his entire family have to stop a counterfeiting ring taking place in there new home. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good.  While this films plot is a cheesy plot given the fact that this film was meant to serve as the final episode of the show and the show itself was pretty cheesy in all of the best ways possible it does make sense that this film would have a plot that is just as cheesy. Heck one could even make the point that it's the fact that this films plot is as cheesy as it is that it makes it alot of fun to watch as by all rights this films plot shouldn't have worked and while it could be argued that it still doesn't work it's the fact that it does have this cheesy almost sitcom like plot to it that does make fun and campy and heck even the fact that the film reverts back to the status quo of the show at the end is something that does hit home the fact that this is a sitcom style plot but here's the thing while having a plot like this works well for the show for the movie you do want something a little more grander and while having the family go to a different country does work in this regard the plot it self does need to reflect this by being more of a plot that could only work in a movie as this films plot as good as it is feels like an extended episode of the show with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster , Yvonne De Carlo as Lily Munster and Al Lewis as Grandpa Munster. Also starring in this film is Butch Patrick as Eddie Munster , Debbie Watson as Marilyn Munster , Terry-Thomas as Freddie Munster , Hermione Gingold as Lady Effigie Munster , Robert Pine as Roger Moresby , John Carradine as Cruikshank , Bernard Fox as Squire Lester Moresby , Richard Dawson as Joey , Jeanne Arnold as Grace Munster , Maria Lennard as Millie Cruikshank , Cliff Norton as Herbert , Diana Chesney as Mrs. Moresby , Arthur Malet as Alfie and Ben Wright as Hennesy.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. To be frank if your expecting this film to have OSCAR worthy acting in it then more fool you as whilst this films acting is indeed really good it's also the kind of good acting that you would expect to find in a sitcom which for this film does oddly work as that's where the characters started life with of course the four retuning actors having a huge advantage in this regard as they would all know how best to portray there respective characters and while the new actors do there best in this film it doesn't hold a candle to what the TV actors do in this film. With the best actor in this film being Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster which might be a cliche thing to say but it is true as he really does nail the character of Herman down perfectly with him giving us a performance that does suit the character and while the doesn't go to child like with his performance like alot of the other actors do that play this character he takes it far enough that it almost feels like a performance that's worthy of being on the big screen with him brining this likable energy to the role that really does come through in his performance. With the acting that's in this very film really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all this films actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Whilst the characters from the TV show are written how they usually are in the show it's the newer characters that aren't that well written. As the films new characters are written very much as being these over the top characters and while again this is something that would work in an episode of the show for the movie tho you do expect them to be better written as there really isn't all that much to this films new characters outside of the film just straight up telling us which characters we should like and which others we should hate and that's really it and even that doesn't work as the film doesn't give us a reason to care for for the characters that are meant to like and we feel indifferent about the ones that we are meant to hate. With the main Munster family being the better written of the films characters and even that is more die to the fact that the writers of this film had the expirence of writing for these characters in the show and even then some characters from the show do get the short end of the stick as both Lily and Eddie get nothing to do in the plot of the film with Herman and Grandpa being involved in the main plot and Marilyn being involved in a subplot and while one of the shows characters was always bound to get the short end of the stick when it comes to doing things in the film it feels weird that the makers of this film allowed it to happen to two characters that the fans of the show do love with the pair of them not really getting alot of time to show of just why there character was as beloved as they were in the show all for seemingly no reason as it's a very common thing with all of the live action Munsters movies, yet both Herman and Grandpa are given a chance to show of just why they were liked as characters in the show with them oddly enough getting alot the more better scenes in the film with Marilyn just kind of being there which does make as she was never really given alot to do in the show either.

Speaking of the show believe it or not this is the last time that the actors playing Eddie , Herman , Lily and Grandpa would all appear in a Munsters project together. With the only missing actor from the show being Pat Priest as she for some unknown reason was replaced by Debbie Watson with the only reason being that I can think of for her casting being the fact that she had a contract with Universal Pictures and that's really it and even then that doesn't make her casting right as Pat Priest was the more well known actor as Marilyn as even tho she took over the role from Beverly Owen she was the longest serving person to play that role and was more well known to the fans of the show as that character therefor it does seem weird that for the movie and for quite literally alot of the live action Munsters movies they would just recast the character over and over again. With the real only reason to go and see this film is to see the characters in color as up until this point in the time the characters had only been seen in black and whit and to be frank this film would have worked all the more better if it was a black and white movie as that would make it visually look more like the show but in all fairness to the film it was fun to see these characters in color and while they do get a few things wrong like for example making Herman's green skin now appear to be blue and making things perhaps a bit to colorful it was still fun to see these characters in color as the only time there had been coloured version of The Munsters was in one of the failed pilots for the original show which again like this movie had Herman's skin coloured blue, heck if this film was done as a black and white film then it could have been done more as a parody of the Hammer horror films of the time think Carry On Screaming but American and you'll get the idea.

Much like with all of The Munsters films in which she appears in Marilyn is given the same plot line in this film where she falls in love with someone who is tied to the main plot in some very loose way. While this is something that does get repeated alot in all of the other live action Munsters movies that feature Marilyn as a character this was the first film to really do that with her when it comes to the movies therefor this film does get a little bit of slack as they did have to give us a love interest somewhere in the film for one of the characters and it can't be any of the adults and Eddie is to young therefor by default it had to be Marilyn but this was also something that they did alot of the time on the show as well and it's something that does do more harm to her character then it does good. As while giving her that kind of a plot is fine for one maybe two episodes of the show for the film you do want to give her something different as your not going to have countless other episodes in which to fall back on should this plot line have failed and this is something that the nineties made for TV Munsters films did try to do as while they did give her a love interest it was someone that actively tried to help her family out, yet here in this film this plot line does feel played out as the makers of the film do nothing with it when they really could have taken the time to create something truly romantic with those scenes and yet they don't do it which does make those scenes with Marilyn feel forced as the character plays no part in the films main plot outside of having a love interest that Herman has to race against in the films third act and that's and that's not really something that justifies her being given a love interest as you very easily could have said that Roger was was her pen pal or something like that and it still would have worked as nothing about the films plot would be affected by it heck even it's own subplot wouldn't be affected by it.

To be fair to this film it's villains even tho they are badly done as characters are still really entertaining to watch in the film. As all the four them want is for Freddie to named Lord Munster which does involve the having to find ways to rid of Herman and yet every time they do Freddie throws a tantrum which is always funny to see as it does add to the over top almost cartoon like nature of this villains and yet alot of them aren't really given much screen time with alot of it going to Freddie and his mother with his sister Grace being more of an afterthought as while she does year appear in the film quite alot and even takes part in one of the families schemes to scare Herman and his family away outside of that one scene she doesn't really do anything to help to further there end goal rather she just fades away into the background while her mother and brother take the centre stage. With this not really being helped by the fact that the film does try to have a mystery over who this person telling hem how to do these things is as they only know them by The Griffin and that's it this is something that could have worked if the makers of this film had given us clues as to who The Griffin was in the first place therefor allowing for us the audience to work it out for ourselfs which does make the big reveal of it being the barmaid all the more of a let down as it literally comes out of nowhere with it making no sense be it from a character point of view or the point of the view of the movie and heck it would have given us the audience a reason to rewatch the film if there was clues sprinkled all throughout the film like for example one of the characters mentions her knowing a little to much about cars for a barmaid that would have made for a great clue to have in the film and yet we aren't given it rather we are given nothing interms of who The Griffin could be as we don't even get any sort of Red Herrings for whom the character could be either.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty six minuets and nineteen seconds. Which again to be fair to this film is pretty much the exact grand total running time that you would expect a film like this one to gave and the film does need that long of a running time to tell it's story as while you could very easily tell this films plot in a two part episode of the show if you cut out all of the padded scene in the film this is still a plot that does work well on the big screen with the films running time reflecting as while alot of sitcom to movie adaptations would feel like sketches from a sketch comedy show just loosely edited together this film does feel like exactly that a film and while yes the film doe have obvious padding with the sequence with the characters on the boat last for far two long there's no denying the fact that this running time is solid for this film with the film even having enough plot there t cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet even so this film really doesn't use its running time all that wisely as the film doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot with the film just not being bothered to add things to the plot that help to make the plot feel more developed with this adding to the feeling that this is just a sitcom style plot only now instead of being twenty two minuets it's at a feature length running time with the makers of this film being more focused on giving us over the top villains then they were in giving us a well developed plot. This is something that does also effect the films character development as while normally you could make the case for all of the tv show Munster family getting there character development in the show and therefor don't need it in the movie given the fact that the characters started out live on a sitcom that resets itself every week that was never going to happen therefor if they did stand a chance of getting character development it would have been in this movie and that's the one thing that both they and the films newer characters don't get with the makers of this film being more focused on making sure that we knew that this was the first time that we seeing these characters in color then they were in giving them character development but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy thats actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally tought / felt tat the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. The fact that we do have some good comedy in this film does make alot of sense as the films characters especially the villains are portrayed as being these over the top cartoons that it does make it easy for the makers of the film to craft jokes for them as they can go over the top with the jokes and that it would work and its something that does work with the TV show characters as well as they whilst there not as over the top as the villains are they are still wacky enough that they do still work. With the films best joke not really being one joke as its a running joke where alot of the people that first see the TV show Munsters are afraid of them and run of in over the top and dramatic ways which is something that whilst it is over played in the film and is a bit cheesy it does add to the films almost sitcom like nature as that is the kind of joke thar they do on an episode of the show and it's one that does still work in this film as of course these people would run of in fear as to them The Munsters are monsters and whilst The Addams Family would lean in to the fact that they are this creepy family the thing that makes this joke work not only in the show but also in this film is the fact that The Munsters think that they are normal looking people with the rest of the films jokes being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall it doesn't need saying but its going to be said anyway but this film is easily better then the 2022 The Munsters film as this film does ta the very least make an attempt to not only recapture the spirit of the the original show but also adapt for a the feature length format whilst also doin it's own thing as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very revie and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally sued 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 Amazon . Co . Uk , Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.

The Munsters Film Review

When it comes to family friendly horror families you do usually think of The Addams Family and for good reason as nearly every single TV show and movie that they've been in they've knocked it out of the park. The same thing cannot be said however for The Munsters as while they did have a wildly popular TV show at the same time as the original The Addams Family show and have had a several movies including a theatrically released movie starring most of the cast from the show the family has largely been forgotten about and well there is one movie that alot of Munsters fans think back on in dread and it's that very film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today and so then join me as I revie the film that is a prequel to the show with the film in question being called simply just "The Munsters" enjoy.

The plot of this film is the very first thing that's wrong with the film as the film essentially has no plot outside of the premise of telling us how Herman and Lily met and why they came to America with Grandpa in the first place and that's it. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this verry film well then in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad. To put it frankly this film doesn't have a plot for alot of it's running time with the only vague hint of a plot that we get in the film being when Lily's brother Lester convinces Herman to sign over the deed to Lily and Grandpa's castle so that he can sell it and make a profit and even then that small hint of a plot doesn't come into plot until nearer the end of the film. Which does make it look like that this films writer , producer and director Rob Zombie forgot to add in a plot and only added in at the last minuet which is a shame as telling an origin story for the show and it's characters is a really good idea and it is one that could have worked with Zombie's style as a film maker but it's also an idea that was done ten times better in the nineties TV movie Here Come The Munsters which makes this film feel like it's ripping off that film with the only difference being that that film had a plot to begin with and this film barely has a premise. This films premise could have worked as a plot for a new Munsters and having life long fan Rob Zombie be the one to tell that story does oddly make sense but there still needed some actual thought and effort put into this films plot to make it worth while in the first place with the plot of this film not really being really rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Jeff Daniel Phillips as Herman , Shecky Von Rathbone and Zombo and Sheri Moon Zombie as Lily and Donna Doomley. Also starring in this film is Daniel Roebuck as Grandpa and Ezra Mosher , Richard Brake as Dr. Wolfgang and Orlock , Jorge Garcia as Floop , Sylvester McCoy as Igor , Catherine Schell as Zoya Krupp , Tomas Boykin as Lester , Levente Törköly as Bela Krupp , Jeremy Wheeler as Mr. Gateman , Roderick Hill as Mr. Goodbury , Mark Griffith as Mr. Graves , Renáta Kiss as Uncle Gilbert , Butch Patrick as the voice of Tin Can Man , Laurent Winkler as Shelly Von Rathbone , Fred Coury as the voice of Franz Pennywhacker and The Munsters Cuckoo Clock , Miklós Kapácsy as Shady MaGoon , Pat Priest as the voice of the Transylvania Airlines Announcer , Dee Wallace as the voice of the Good Morning Transylvania Announcer and Cassandra Peterson as Barbara Carr.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this verry film well then in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty OK at best. This is a Rob Zombie film and with that you do know exactly what kind of acting that your going to get and yeah sadly it is more of the same here as while actors like Jeff Daniel Phillips and Daniel Roebuck are clearly trying to turn in a good performance alot of this films just feel like that there sleep walking through there performances however tho Sheri Moon Zombie is at the very least trying to recapture what Yvonne De Carlo did with Lily by having a very similar voice and mimicking her hand movements but that's really it interms of praise for her performance as it's just as wooden as you expect from her. With the best actor in this film being Jeff Daniel Phillips as while he sounds nothing like Fred Gwynne he does try to recapture the spirit of the character and he is charming enough in the role that you do kind of forgive him for having a really annoying speaking voice, with it feeling like that he was a fan of the show and therefore wanted to turn in a performance that would both honor the original actor whilst also doing his own unique thing as alot of the actors that are playing characters from the original show feel like there trying to do one or the other and yet with Jeff it feels like that he found the perfect balance between the two with his performance echoing things that Fred Gwynne would do whilst also taking the character and somewhat making him his own. With the acting that's in this very film not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none pf this films absolutely anything to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

If you know Rob Zombie character then you'll know that he typically creates hillbilly characters that don't know when to stop swearing and yet here whilst this films characters are still really unlikable there is still an attempt made to make them more like there original show counterparts. As all of the characters from the show do still feel like there old selfs with this being due to the fact that Rob Zombie is a massive fan of the show so much so that his song "Dragula" is named after The Munsters car from the first film Munster, Go Home! therefor it does make sense that he would go out of his way to try and get the shows characters as close to how they were in the show as he possibly could do as this is something that only a true die hard fan of The Munsters would care to do in the first place. However tho while the main Munster family are written like there old selfs and feel true to who they were as characters none of the films others characters are written all that well with alot of them coming across as being one joke characters that have nothing to them like with Lester for example he is the typical loser brother character and yet there's nothing to his character that makes him interesting whereas it would have been all the more better if we did get to see another side to him like maybe he does deeply care for sister even tho his father hates his guts just something would have done to make him feel alot less like a bland character. The same thing could also be said Dr. Wolfgang who did have all of the potential to be this really funny character as the film does set him up as being someone who is really smart but is also really pompous and yet the film just drops him the first chance that it gets when it would have been more funny to see go from someone who did have these fans to someone who is now struggling just to get by and yet this seems to be the thing with this film as the film will set up interesting and funny things with its characters but then it won't follow through on any of them in favor of just setting up more pointless things with its characters.

For some odd reason the makers of this film chose to make this film be a prequel to the show which does mean that not all of the Munster family are present as there's no Eddie and there's no Marilyn in this film. This is despite the fact that Marilyn would technically be alive as she was Herman's niece in the original show and not his daughter which makes her absence in this film all the more weird but at the same time tho making this film a prequel is a smart move as it does mean that people who are none fans of the show can now use this film as a jumping off point moving forward as the film does explain alot about how both Herman and Lily got alot of the things that they have in the show including there pet dragon Spot. This is also something that could be seen as being a bad thing as the film does throw so much backstory and lore at you that it could be seen as being off putting and while all of those things are great for the fans of the show to see they are things that could be seen as being off putting for the mainstream viewer who perhaps hasn't seen a single episode of the show, but to be fair tho The Flintstones In Viva Rock Vegas also did a very similar thing and yet that's not something that will stop people from using that film as a jumping off point for the 1994 film but here tho it is something that does ultimately hurt the film as the film is throwing alot of easter eggs at you so much so that it does make it obvious that this film does care more about the easter eggs and the obscure characters then it does in telling a complete story as no joke the film just stops for no reason as that's how little that the makers of this film truly cared about the story of the and while granted it was always going to be hard to end this film that doesn't mean that the film just had to stop as they could have found a way for the film to come to a natural conclusion where the next logical step is either the first episode of the show or a potential for a sequel like maybe the film could have ended with Lily finding out that she was pregnant with Eddie.

To give this film some form of credit there are times where it does make an attempt to feel like The Munsters TV show. Like for example there's a scene in Paris where Grandpa is trying to tell Herman what Lester has done and Herman thinks that Grandpa is the main that is a very Munsters TV show gag and it is something that does work well in this film with it even being one of the few times where the Herman and Grandpa relationship feels more true to how it was in the show and not something that was quite badly handled like it very easily could have been due to the fact that Rob Zombie really hasn't made good films before now. With the only other time where this film does feel like classic Munsters is oddly enough at the end of the film where they just straight up play the films teaser trailer complete with a rendition of the classic Munsters TV show theme these are thing that do make it clear that the makers of this film did know how to recapture the spirit of the original show and yet both times they came to little to late as for a lot of the time the film doesn't feel like anything to do with The Munsters heck it doesn't even feel like any of The Munsters reboots or sequels either rather it feels like something that is trying to recapture the spirit and tone of the original without realising what it was that made the original show stand out in the first place with this making those few times where it does feel like the show again stand out all the more as then you do realise that actually the makers of this film did know how to make a Munsters movie it's just that they weren't trying hard enough in the first place. Yet if the makers of this film did put in more thought and effort in getting this film to feel more true to the spirit and tone of the original show and if the makers of this film had been allowed to film this film in black and white like the original show then we might have gotten a more better product out of it.

Understandably this film does put alot of focus on the relationship between Lily and Herman which is fair enough as that's the whole point of the film in the first place. However we don't get to see many of the ups and downs that a relationship like there's might have ran into as we don't to get see them falling for each other as they both fall for each at first sight and nor do we see them arguing alot of the time which yes is a small thing but if your going to do a film that revolves around two people falling in love then there should have been alot of thought and effort put into making there relationship seem alot more believable. Not that it's handled badly as indeed it is handled in a very sitcom type of way which for this film is something that is oddly fitting it's just that it is something that could have used alot of work like for example we should have had a scene where Lily and Herman do fall out which yes would have been a cliche thing to do but it's a cliche for a reason or we could have seen them getting used to being around each other as while we know for a fact that Lily is after a husband Herman on the other hand has only been alive for a few months maximum by the time he meets Lily and therefor he wouldn't know what he wants an that is something that could have been explored with this film but again that seems to be a common thing wit this film as the film does put alot more thought and effort into giving us these obscure Munsters characters then it does into making it's key relationship work with it being the relationship that people are coming to this film to see and when that can't work as well it could have done due to all of the easter eggs then the whole film just falls in on it's self.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and forty nine minuets and forty six seconds. Which to be fair is both a sold running time for this film and also the wrong running time for this film to have as while you do expect films like to be around this films running time you do also expect comedies let alone direct to DVD comedies like this one to be around the one hour and thirty minuet mark and yet because of the fact that this film is almost twenty minuets longer it does sadly mean that you do notice all of its flaws alot mire due to the fact hat we the audience are now being forced to focus on them alot more with this film not really having the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place. The film doesn't even use its running time all that wisely due to the fact that this film really doesn't take the time to develop what very little plot that it has in the first place with the film being alot more focused on giving us these over the top almost cartoonish visuals then it is in giving us a well developed and thought plot as on paper the story of how Lily and Herman met and fell in love could have worked. The film even doesn't take the time to fully develop any of it's characters with all of them including the characters from the original show being these very bland and very one note characters where you know right away just what it is that there going to say and how there going to react to any given situation with that being something that does rob the characters the chance to be these interesting and fun characters but as the makers of this film are alot more interesting in focusing on quite literally anything else then its characters it does mean that all of its characters do come across as being half baked and undercooked but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. Heck this films comedy it could be argued is the best thing about this film as the makers of this film did go out of there way to hire funny actors that could make this films jokes work in the first place with all of them really trying there bets to make alot this films jokes but sadly they can't do it alot of the time as while there are some really funny jokes to be found in this film this film does have alot more jokes that are just bad at worst and it's worst just plain lazy. With the best joke in the whole entire film being the scene with Grandpa and Herman in Paris as that joke does feel like some thing that Al Lewis and Fred Gwynne would do with it being something that does prove that both Jeff and Dan are good psychical comedians as the key to making a joke like that work is timing and it is something that they did have down perfectly as first we have Herman taking a bottle of wine from Grandpa that he was going to use to hit Herman with and then when Grandpa knocks again Herman tips him with it only being on the third attempt that Herman actually looks up and notices that it Grandpa and if there timing was off by a even a single second then that joke just wouldn't work and yet because of the fact that they did work at it and they did get that timing down perfectly it means that we get a joke that does feel like it would have been right at home in the original show with the rest of the films jokes being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall Munster, Go Home! is easily the best of The Munsters films not only because of the fact that it has alot of the original series actors in it but because of the fact that it does feel like a film version of the show where as here in this film despite the fact that it has a fan of the show making it doesn't like The Munsters for alot of it's running time with the film being a very cheap and lazy cash grab of a film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does have a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where In personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies ad gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , Amazon . Co . Uk , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.

The Munsters "Lily Munster–Girl Model" Review

With Wednesday currently gearing up to release the second part of it's second season in a few weeks and proving that creepy and cooky families do still have life in them. It only made sense that I took the time to remind you all of a show that was a rival to the original The Addams Family TV show and so then join me as I review the episode that sees Lily get a job with the episode in question being called simply just "Lily Munster–Girl Model" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when she's bored one night Lily decides that she wants to get a job in order to contribute anything to society. Now then interms of that I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual job that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad however tho this episodes plot isn't all that good as it is a very basic and simple plot which is something that does work well enough for the show as this is a sitcom afterall and those don't typically have deep and thought provoking plots in order to tell their stories well but in saying that tho this episodes plot is perhaps a little bit to simple and easy to follow not that that's a bad thing per-say but it's something that does hold the episode back quite alot as you know how the episode is going to end due to how simple that this episodes plot is when giving the episode a little bit more of a complicated plot that's more in line with say the "Eddie's Nickname" episode or even the pilot episode of the show would have helped the episode out a little bit in saying that tho this show does work it's best when it does have a simple plot much like this one and while this episodes plot isn't all that good there's still more thought and effort put into this plot then there was the 2022 Rob Zombie movie as this plot does have alot of care and attention put into it with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this episode is Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster , Yvonne De Carlo as Lily Munster and Al Lewis as Grandpa Munster. Also starring in this episode is Pat Priest as Marilyn Munster , Butch Patrick as Eddie Munster , Roger C. Carmel as Laszlo Brastoff , Nina Shipman as The Beautiful Girl , John Alvin as Mr. Franklin , Kimberly Beck as The Little Girl , Sally E. Morris as Colette , Sondra Teke as Millicent , Susan Wedell as The 1st Model , Tracy Butler as The 2nd Model , Lois Roberts as Irving and Lesley-Marie Colburn as A Girl Model.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With all of this episodes actors really giving us some truly wonderful performances with it even being in this episode that we get to see some of the wonderful chemistry between Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis as the two of them do share alot of screen time together with both of them also giving us some truly wonderful performances as well which is something that's to be expected as they have been with the show since episode one and so it does make sense that them and the rest of the series main actors would also turn in some really performances in their right as well with the best actor in the whole entire episode being Yvonne De Carlo as she does get alot to do in this episode which does give her a chance to show us just what she could do as an actress with her performance being as wonderfully over the top as a plot like this one would allow it to be with it being clear as day that she's having a blast making this episode which is something that really does shine through in her performance with the acing that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

It was kind of a refreshing thing to not only see an episode where Lily is the main character but also one where she does actively look for a job as that does feel like something that her character would indeed do. With the rest of the shows characters being written both oddly OK and yet at the same time out of character as well as while it's perfectly in character for Herman to worry about Lily it's not in his character to actively stop her from doing something that she really wants to do as that just makes this version of the character feel like a character that was made in sixties with the same thing also being true Grandpa as well as they both go out of their way to make sure that Lily gets fired from her job when they have to no good reason for wanting to do and while this give us more of Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis in scenes together which is always fun to see it comes at the expense of their characters being in character as these two characters would do anything that they possibly could do to support Lily and would want to see her succeed and yet for some odd reason the episode frames her as being the bad guy and has her be the one that apologizes to them when they are the ones that mess up the fashion show that she takes part it look fair enough this episode was written at a time where women were just expected to stay home and not really get a job but this family had always been presented as a loving a caring family which makes it all the more weird that they would go out of their way to make sure that Lily gets fired from a job that she really likes doing and for the few very scenes that Eddie and Marilyn are in they seem to be written just fine.

Just sticking with what just being said for a minuet this episode does feel very of the time that it was being made in. As everything from the jobs that Lily goes out for to even how both Herman and Grandpa act when she does get a job does feel very dated as the only jobs that we see her go out for are as a home Nurse , a secretary and finally a model all of which are very female dominated jobs and even taking into account that this episode was made in the sixties it does make it feel very dated that she would only go out for those jobs and nothing more then that but on the plus side seeing her get a modelling job on her first try was very impressive but at the same time it does feel like a very stereotypical female job to have where as it would have been more forward thinking to have her say working in a bank or working in a graveyard both of which do feel very true to her character but given that the world at that point in time just wasn't ready to see a female working any other job then those three that she does go out for it does mean that we get stuck with an episode that was dated be the seventies now to be clear that doesn't mean that this is a bad episode as it's really not as the very fact that they even had a plot with Lily going out to get a job in the first place where as must sitcoms would avoid that kind of plot like the plague is vert forward thinking in it's own right it's just something that could have been done alot more better then what it already was in the first place as it does seem like that the makers of this episode were just doing the bare minimum as even the fact that she's the one that apologizes to Herman when she thinks that he's at the show with another woman when he's just there with a disguised Grandpa doesn't work as they should also apologize to her as well.

While both Marilyn and Eddie don't really have alot to do in this episode other then come in for one or two jokes in the episode. It oddly enough doesn't hurt the episode as you don't really notice that there not in it all that much which is odd as you very easily could have had both characters take part in their own little subplot away from the main plot like we know that Eddie needs help with his homework thanks to the opening scene where Grandpa says as such so why not have the subplot be about those two characters just doing Eddie's homework and all of the scrapes that they get into while there trying to get it done which yes granted that does sound like a terrible plot but given that it's meant to be the B plot it doesn't really need to be that good and it still would have given the characters something to do in the episode or heck they even could have had Eddie try to help Marilyn get a boyfriend something which would make sense as that's the whole plot of the first episode and is also kind of the running joke with her character but for whatever reason the makers of this episode chose not to have those two characters play that big of a role in the episode with them essentially being nothing more then cameos as that's how little that they add to the plot of the episode as the family works really well when it's all of them together and that's something that this show should be about from time to time as it shows us the audience that even tho they look weird when compared to us it might us that's the weird ones because there still acting like a normal and loving family despite the fact that they look creepy and while that would mean thankfully rewriting the entire Herman and Grandpa part of the episode we would ultimately get a much more better episode out of it.

Even tho this episode does feel a little bit more dated in it's premise it would be hard to deny the fact that this is a really fun filled episode of the show. With the all of the main characters of the episode getting into some sort of wacky hijinks all of which do serve to make would could been nothing more then just an OK episode of the show seem alot more fun to watch as it will always be pure fun seeing Al Lewis and Fred Gwynne just being there wacky selfs together and the very fact that Grandpa doesn't quite the potion just right when he turns himself in a beautiful woman as even tho his body changes he still has his voice is a wacky and fun concept with the episode even having some really fun looking effects one of which would have been really hard to do even back then as when Lily is trying out for the secretary we see the bar that appears on top of the type writer just continue to float away until she pulls it back which again is a really fun visual and it's one that does make you wonder how they did it as there's no possible way that you could have done an effect like that even back in the sixties let alone on a TV show budget and yet it's here in this episode and it's one that does work as it help to sell you on just how much fun that this episode really is with even the end gag with Eddie being turned into a little girl being one that is a fun idea and it's one that would have been even more fun if the next episode actually did something that and it's the fact that this episode was fun does say that the makers of this show really did know how to keep the episode fun and family friendly and yet still have those gut bustlingly funny moments that do catch you off guard.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty five minuets and twenty eight seconds. Which to be fair to this episode is pretty much the exact grand total running time that the rest of the shows episodes have with this episode even having the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running tome and while the episode doesn't really use it's running time all that wisely as the plot of the episode isn't that well developed that's also something that could be for sitcoms as a whole as nearly all of them don't have plots that are that well developed and isn't an issue that's exclusive to this episode with this episode not even requiring a well developed plot as it only needs the basic set up and that's really it and to be fair to this episode that's all it really needs however tho this episodes characters could have done with a bit of character development as the episode doesn't really give them any to speak off but at the same time tho alot of sitcoms don't really develop there characters either but here it is something that does stick out like a sore thumb due to the fact that both Herman and Grandpa were quite clearly the ones in the wrong and while yes Lily should have said sorry for thinking that Herman was cheating on her Herman also should have said sorry for not telling Lily how he truly felt about her getting this job in the first place but for whatever reason the makers of this episode only saw Lily as being the one in the wrong when she's not as in the wrong as Herman and Grandpa is as she while she did do something wrong so id they and yet there denied the chance to be developed as characters all for no reason whatsoever but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With all of this episodes characters both main characters or not getting some really good jokes in this episode and while Lily does get alot of good jokes when she's trying out for various jobs she oddly doesn't get the best joke in the episode as that honor goes to both Herman and Grandpa as in the scene where we see Herman trying different potions to make him more appealing to women we get to see him take potions based of various celebrities of the day however the makers of this episode go that extra step by not only having Herman dressed like them but also talk and act exactly like them all the while keeping all of the Herman make up on and while that set up alone is more then enough to make that joke really good it gets more funnier when Marilyn comes into Grandpa's lair and sees Herman dressed up as Texas Cowboy all of which results in her breaking down in laughter and just running out of the room which might not sound like much but you see it in the actual episode it's a jokes that comes across as being far more better as we get to see all three actors just having the time of their lives and it's something that really does make that joke be the best joke which is really saying something as there a lot of really good jokes in this episode as even seeing Lily be this great model that literally floats across the floor is a good joke in it's own right in this episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall whilst this episode does come across as being date it's also an episode that is a really fun episode of the show and if people can easily look past just how dated that this episode does appear to be then there will be some people that will really like this episode due to how fun that it is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that re in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn 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 Amazon . Co . Uk , Tenor and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this episode being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this episode really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.

The Munsters "Eddie's Nickname" Review

TV shows nowadays are always trying to teach life lessons but there done in such heavy handed ways that came across as being really rather forced. Yet i've found an episode of a classic TV show that teaches kids a life lesson that we could all do with relearning today with this episode being just a relevant today as it was back in the nineteen sixties and so then join me as I review the episode that saw a bit of a resurgence in popularity just a few short years ago with the episode in question being called simply "Eddie's Nickname" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when Grandpa cast a growth spell on Eddie after some kids start calling him Shorty it's up to Herman to set his son straight. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with this episodes plot doing a really good of being really entertaining when it needs to be and being really heartfelt when it wants to be as well as displaying just how good this family works together as a unit with this episodes plot also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Pet Sematary star Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster and Satan's Cheerleaders star Yvonne De Carlo as Lily Munster. Also starring in this episode is Car 54, Where Are You? star Al Lewis as Grandpa Munster , Pat Priest as Marilyn Munster , Kitaro's Graveyard Gang star Butch Patrick as Eddie Munster , Bewitched star Paul Lynde as Dr. Edward Dudley and Alice Backes as Miss Fairchild.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With alot of the cast turning in some truly wonderful performances with all of the main cast knowing what kind of performance would best to suit there respective characters at any given performances but what let's the acting down tho is oddly enough the acting from the episodes guest cast as there performances whilst perfectly fine for the role that there characters play in the episode just aren't that good when compared to that of the main cast with the episodes guest cast coming across as being lost and not really knowing what kind of performance would best to suit this show where as the opposite is true for the main cast.

This is also one of the only examples of where Eddie Munster is a main character in an episode of the show. With the character mostly being a side character who was more often then not relegated to the episodes side plot and never being in the episodes main plot which was something that changed with this episode and yet even with Eddie getting more of a focus in this episode we still don't get to find out all that much about him which granted might have happened in one of the previous eighteen episodes it's something that really should have happened as he was the main driving point behind the episodes plot and yet we're not really given any new information about him as a character which is something that really should have happened and yet for some strange reason the episode doesn't take the time to do it.

As was mentioned at the very start of this review this episode started to see a resurgence in popularity a few years ago. All thanks to the speech that Herman gives at the end of the episode with his speech being about accepting anyone no matter what they look like and what truly matters is how they act and what they do and this is something that is such an important lesson for kids to learn as it does say that we should be willing to accept people and this is something that we should be relearning today with people not willing to even talk to people just because of their political beliefs and not due to how they are as people which is the very thing that Herman's speech is trying to convince us to do as we should be willing to treat people equally and talk to people regardless of what they believe in as it's the right thing to do.

What didn't really work for this episode was the fact that Herman's speech as great and as impactful as it is really does come out of nowhere. With there not really being any scene that hints of Herman trying to tell Eddie what the right thing to do is and while we do get kind of subplot of Herman and Grandpa falling out due to Grandpa trying use magic to help Eddie there's no sign that Herman was trying to teach Eddie what the right to do is and as such the subplot with Herman and Grandpa not only comes out of nowhere but it also adds up to nothing as it's a subplot that they don't even resolve which is a shame as they could have tied to the two plots together just by having Herman telling Grandpa that he doesn't want him to get involved because he's trying to teach Eddie what the right thing to do is and yet the episode doesn't even take the time to do that.

This episode really doesn't go all the way with it's bullying plot line as we don't really get to see that much of how this effects Eddie as a character. With him not really acting out of character outside of one outburst at the very start of the episode but aside from that he's acting completely in character and yet when you contrast this episode with other sitcoms that do a bullying plotline alot of them will have the person that's getting bullied act of character to let not only the other characters know but to also let us the audience know that something is seriously wrong with this character and yet as Eddie is acting fully in character it would make no sense that his parents would pick up on something being wrong with him as just based off of what they see they shouldn't really know that anything was wrong him in the first place and then you add in the fact that the bulling doesn't really escalate with it just being the name calling and that's it which granted that's all that they could have gotten away with back in the sixties it still would have helped the episode out quite alot.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty five minuets and twenty eight seconds. Which to this episodes credit is the perfect running time for this episode to have as the episode really doesn't have alot there interms of the plot to cover anything longer then that but it still would have been nice if this episode really did have a slightly longer running time given the subject matter and the themes of this episodes plot but on the flip side of that is the fact that if this episode was longer then it would have been stretching was is a very thinly drawn out premise even thinner as now there would be alot of scenes that go nowhere but with those added scenes we could have gotten to see just what Marilyn would say or do to help Eddie out as she's given pretty much nothing to do in the final cut of the episode but I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that means that I have to talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With this episode having some really funny moments in it and while this episode does feature some bad jokes in it the episode has alot more funny moments just with Herman alone that more then make up for it with Herman getting all of the episodes best jokes as he really is just a funny character that can and in this case really does make alot of jokes that really shouldn't work actually work and while he does get one really unfunny joke in the whole episode he gets alot more really funny moments in the episode as the episodes jokes are really just that funny in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while this episodes central message is just as if not more really important today then it was back in the nineteen sixties the episode as a whole is fun episode but it's perhaps not as good as it really have been in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.

Now ten as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then in 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 Amazon . Co . Uk , Tenor . Com , Wikipedia and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this episode up on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.