Mad Monster Party?

A tale of two ratings. As always, the stop-motion effects are very good, and the general "look" of the characters is also nice. (I loved the house band.) It's just that the plot that holds this together is poor, the jokes aren't all that funny if you're over eight, and even the songs don't work. It's way too long for its content, and that tends to overshadow the few good things here.

This doesn't work on so many levels. Terrible main character who talks, acts, and is treated like a shameless self-insert character with zero effort put into him, terrible nonsense plot, poorly designed monsters (whoever decided to make the Bride look like that should be punched in the nose), and very of-the-era casual physical abuse towards women. Tonally all over the place. Makes 95 minutes feel like 95 years. I really had high hopes for this, but God it sucked. Obscure for good reason.

Karloff is, as always, engaging. Phyllis Diller is ... fine ... although she really stands out as tonally out of the sync with the rest of the film. Allen Swift is the real problem. He voices almost every other character, doing an impression of some Hollywood star in neraly every case. Many of them are okay (mostly because they get very little screen time), but his Jimmy Stewart-inspired hero and Peter Lorre-inspired butler are painful and annoying.

Cute and funny

I have always been a fan of the Christmas specials Bass has been a part of (The Year Without a Santa is one of the best cchristmas movies. Underrated) but I somehow have never seen this. Has all the usual charm of his stuff. The just weird enough to be cool character designs, the silly lame jokes that hit every 5 attempts and Karloff is great as always. Just silly, charming fun. If it wouldn't bore the pants off of a kid in 2020 it would be a staple in my house (if I ever had kids)

Great models and much better animation then Rudolph but story wise a lot more filler to it. The incidental music is good but the songs are pretty bad. But I've got just three words for you: Stop. Motion. Cat-fight. Recommended for monster kids.

I love this because it is terrible.

Other than the visual character design which is rather good, the rest is mediocre and dull. A terrible stupid plot with horrid puns passing for 'comedy.'

Slow, creaky, and utterly charming.

As a kid Freder thought this was the cat's pajamas; but it's probably impossible for an adult to sit through.