![]() With that musical, called House of Good Women and set at a private girls’ school, the film takes a sharp satirical turn. ![]() Monster encourages her to audition for Jacob’s show, so at least he gets her out of the house. Whether falling in love with this imaginary creature is more or less healthy than eating all those pies is not something the film gets judgmental about. In classic rom-com opposites-attract style, when Monster and Laura watch old movies on television, she weeps at Royal Wedding and he thinks Night of the Living Dead is a documentary. He even recites Shakespeare, appropriately a monologue from The Comedy of Errors. Otherwise, the film has a natural, crisp look, with unobtrusive camerawork and set design that enhances a sense of realism - in Laura’s lived-in house and on the streets of New York - even as her imagination goes wild.Īs Monster, Tommy Dewey ( Casual) gives this beast emotions. Whether that is a joke or bad special effects makeup is hard to say. ![]() This creature, whom she calls Monster, also seems to have way too much old-style theatrical greasepaint on his face. Laura reminds him that she first saw him under her bed in 1994, which would have been three years after the Disney film was released, so no coincidence there. Out of the depths of her despair and imagination, a monster comes out of her bedroom closet, a dead ringer for the Beast from the animated Disney classic, a little the worse for wear. ![]() That leading role was supposed to have been hers. She sends pathetic texts, the kind your friends tell you never to send, to the ex-boyfriend, Jacob (Edmund Donovan makes him thoroughly obnoxious), who is now staging the musical she helped him develop. ( Your Monster was obviously shot before Barrera was dropped from Scream VII in November.) Living alone in her childhood home, abandoned by Mazie, the flaky best friend who promised to be there for her - Kayla Foster perfectly captures Mazie’s self-absorption - Laura mopes around, binge-eating the dozens of pies her absent mother has sent. ![]() Playing it straight, she depicts Laura as weak, deflated, and not as talented as Barrera is. The chipper song lands here as preposterous and silly, just what Lindy’s film turns out to be.Ĭast: Melissa Barrera, Tommy Dewey, Meghann Fahy, Edmund Donovan, Kayla Fosterīarrera may be known for Scream (2022) and Scream VI, but she doesn’t lean into horror-queen memes. As we see in the opening sequence, she howls and weeps, but even as she’s being wheeled out of the hospital, we hear Dick Van Dyke cheerfully singing “Put on a Happy Face” from the original Broadway cast album of Bye Bye Birdie. Laura Franco ( Melissa Barrera), a would-be actress, is in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery when her boyfriend breaks up by text. Full of affection for big Broadway-style tunes, with a heroine whose dream man is soft-hearted but also not human, it is a sharp, witty confection. It’s probably safe to say that Your Monster is the only film ever to score a sex scene to Jimmy Durante’s raspy voice singing, “I could turn the gray skies to blue, if I only had you.” Caroline Lindy’s first feature (based on her short) is a singing, dancing, skewed comic take on rom-coms, heartbreak, rebounds and revenge. ![]()
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