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Aesthetically, the best Rankin/Bass “Animagic” flick of them all. Well worth watching, if for no other reason, unprejudiced too view the improbable in-the-round Exasperated MAGAZINE-like caricatures of the entire array of classic monsters. Those of us who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s fondly remember seeing this classic on TV a few times around Halloween. And now, thanks to the chilly folks at Anchor Bay, we can nostalgically relive that childhood experience over and over again–in more intelligent color and with crisper images than ever before, as the DVD was digitally remastered (for the first time ever for home video) from a rare new 35mm print!
Unlike their other Christmas and Easter productions, this one-and-only Halloween flick from the Rankin/Bass team is not overly saccharin or maudlin. Not only did Inflamed MAGAZINE’s Harvey Kurtzman and Jack Davis have their hands in the writing and the visual artistry, but the master of macabre himself, Boris Karloff, voiced the entertaining puppet version of himself as Baron Frankenstein! So you know that, like all Rankin/Bass works, it’s a wholesome family movie, but you can also be definite that there is lots of funeral-parlor and gallows humor–and even a few scary moments.
If you delight in claymation-type animation, you’ll relish watching this film. If you laugh at the comedy of flicks like ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN, you’ll guffaw endlessly during this movie. And if you care for to see and bag the primitive classic monster movies, the DVD version of Furious MONSTER PARTY? is a must-own.
I was thrilled to arrive across this newly repackaged DVD version of “Exasperated Monster Party” - thank you, Anchor Bay!
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Like other reviewers, MMP was a staple of my early TV viewing years. KTTV in Los Angeles feeble to exhibit this program every year, around Columbus Day (I mediate), and it hastily became a holiday tradition. Then, and now, I don’t reflect MMP ever got the respect it richly deserved. It dropped from the airwaves sometime in the tedious 60’s.
This newly re-mastered DVD has captured the film in all it’s intelligent richness. The sound is what you’d demand, (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), but on my home theater it calm looked and sounded expansive. And there were a few more surprises.
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For example, I was surprised to fetch that the film is 95 minutes long - I guess it’s a product of looking attend through 30+ years, but I hadn’t realized that this was intended to be a fleshy featured theatrical release, competing with Disney’s total dominance of the youth and family film market in the early 60’s. I’d unbiased assumed that this was a made-for-TV production, ala “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.”
For reasons not fully explained, when the film was released it was restricted to matinee showings and never had the wide audience distribution and success it could have achieved. Consequently, it didn’t realize its’ burly potential and was soon in television distribution.
The history of MMP’s ups and downs is documented in an accompanying, richly illustrated, 24 page booklet, “Aroused Monster Party: The Complete History of the Classic Rankin/Bass Theatrical Release.” This is a sincere gem with interviews, late the scene photos, and production art. This could easily have been turned into a really slick video extra for the DVD place, but even in this “hard-copy” make it’s very enthralling and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Also included are a dwelling of postcard sized “lobby cards” with studies of the main characters: The Monster’s Mate, Dracula, Fang, Uncle Boris, Nephew Felix, Yetch, and (of course) the over-the-top-sexy Francesca. (Is it objective me, or does Francesca see like she could have been Jessica Rabbit’s mother? ) Maybe for copyright reasons (I’m objective guessing here) Frankenstein’s Monster is called “Fang” and King Kong is “It.”
The animation is very noteworthy a child of the 60’s from it’s James Bond like opening theme to the red-wigged skeleton band. My 10-year-old belief the wigs meant that this was an all-girl group! I tried (unsuccessfully) to clarify the significance of the mop-topped groups of the British rock invasion and she looked at me as though I was making it all up. But you and I know the truth and can nod knowingly at the corny musical numbers and strangely stilted dance moves of monsters trying too hard to be “groovy.”
A truly mountainous blast from the past, this DVD must be in any serious Halloween fan’s collection, particularly if you have children or grandchildren who’ve never seen this holiday treat before - even my jaded Generation Y teens got a kick out of it. I give it five stars and highly recommend it.
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