Monster Trucks (2016)

Directed by

Chris Wedge

Genre

comedy film, adventure film, speculative fiction film, action comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 939 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A high school student works at a junkyard where he discovers a strange creature living inside an old truck. He befriends the creature and tries to keep it hidden while a company hunts for it.

lightheartedenergeticfunfast-pacedquirkyfamily-friendlywhimsicalupbeat

What happens

Monster Trucks is a 2016 American monster comedy film produced by Paramount Animation, Nickelodeon Movies and Disruption Entertainment for Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Chris Wedge, in both his live-action directorial debut and first directorial effort outside of his own company Blue Sky Studios, and written by Derek Connolly, from a story by Matthew Robinson, Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger. The film stars Lucas Till, Jane Levy, Amy Ryan, Rob Lowe, Danny Glover, Barry Pepper, Thomas Lennon, and Holt McCallany, and follows Tripp Coley, a young junkyard employee who finds a subterranean creature living in his truck. The film was first released on December 21, 2016, in France, then on January 13, 2017, in the United States. It received mixed reviews from critics and was considered by analysts to be a box-office bomb, grossing $64.5 million worldwide against a $125 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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