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''Monster House'' is a 2006 American computer-animated children's horror film directed by Gil Kenan, produced by ImageMovers and Amblin Entertainment, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The film stars Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke, Steve Buscemi, Nick Cannon, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jon Heder, Kevin James, Jason Lee, Catherine O'Hara, Kathleen Turner, and Fred Willard. Executive produced by Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg, this is the first time since ''Back to the Future Part III'' that they have worked together. It is also the first time that Zemeckis and Spielberg both served as executive producers of a film. The film's characters are animated primarily utilizing performance capture, making it the second film to use the technology so extensively, following Zemeckis' ''The Polar Express''. ''Monster House'' received generally positive reviews from critics〔 and grossed over $140 million worldwide.〔 The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 79th Academy Awards, but lost to ''Happy Feet''. ==Plot== Twelve-year-old DJ Walters spies on his elderly neighbor, Horace Nebbercracker, who confiscates any item landing in his yard. DJ's parents leave town for a dentist convention, leaving him in the care of a babysitter, Elizabeth "Zee". DJ's best friend Charles "Chowder" visits him, but accidentally loses his basketball on Nebbercracker's lawn. DJ is caught by Nebbercracker while recovering it, who rages at him before apparently suffering a stroke and being taken away by an ambulance. That night, DJ receives mysterious phone calls from Nebbercracker's house with no one on the other end. DJ eavesdrops on Zee's boyfriend Bones, who tells Zee about losing his kite on Nebbercracker's lawn when he was young and that Nebbercracker supposedly ate his wife Constance. Later, Bones is driven out by Zee after he gets too fresh. When he leaves, he sees his kite in the doorway of Mr. Nebbercracker's house, but he and the kite are consumed, while retrieving it. The next morning, a girl named Jenny Bennett is selling Halloween chocolates and candies. DJ and Chowder see her going to Nebbercracker's house, and they rush out to catch her before she is eaten by the house. Jenny calls the police, but police officers Landers and Lester do not believe their story, taking it as a false alarm. The trio seek advice from Reginald "Skull" Skulinski, who claims to be an expert on the supernatural. They learn that the house is a "Domus Mactabilis" (Latin for "deadly home"): a rare form of a monster, created when a human soul merges with a man-made structure. The only way to kill the house is to destroy its heart. They conclude that the heart must be the furnace, as DJ realizes that the chimney has been smoking since Nebbercracker supposedly died. Chowder provides a cold medicine-filled dummy that should cause the house to sleep long enough for them to douse the furnace. Their plan is then thwarted when Landers finds the cold medicine stolen from Chowder's father's pharmacy inside the dummy, and the three kids get arrested by the cops. They place the trio in their car while they examine the house. The house comes to life, and eats Landers, Lester and the car. DJ, Chowder and Jenny escape the car but are trapped in the house. The house falls asleep and the kids begin exploring. They fall into the basement, finding a collection of toys accumulated from Nebbercracker's lawn, as well as a cage door that opens to a shrine containing the body of Nebbercracker's wife Constance the Giantess, buried in cement. The house realizes they are inside and attacks them. DJ, Chowder and Jenny force the house to expel them outside by grabbing its uvula. Nebbercracker arrives home alive, revealing that Constance's spirit is within the house, and that he did not eat her as the rumor states. As a young man, Nebbercracker met Constance, who was an unwilling member of a circus freak show and hated children, and fell in love with her despite her obesity. After helping her escape, they married and began building the house. One Halloween, as children tormented her due to her size, Constance tried chasing them away with an axe, but lost her footing and fell to her death in the basement with the cement burying her body. Nebbercracker finished the house after Constance's death, knowing it was what she would have wanted. Aware that Constance's spirit made the house come alive, Nebbercracker tried keeping people away for their safety, by pretending to hate children. DJ tells Nebbercracker it is time to let Constance go, and the house overhears this. Enraged, the house breaks free from its foundation and chases the group to a construction site. Nebbercracker attempts to distract the house so he can throw sticks of dynamite in, but the house notices and attempts to eat him. Chowder fights the house off with an excavator, causing it to fall into a pit. DJ is given the dynamite, and he and Jenny climb to the top of a crane while Chowder distracts the house. DJ throws the dynamite into the chimney, destroying the house. The trio see Nebbercracker with Constance's ghost before she fades away. DJ apologizes to Nebbercracker for the loss of his house and wife, but Nebbercracker thanks DJ and the kids for freeing him and Constance from being trapped for 45 years. That night, children in their Halloween costumes are lined up at the site of Nebbercracker's house, where DJ, Chowder and Jenny help him return the toys to their owners. Jenny's mother picks her up, and DJ and Chowder go trick-or-treating in the neighborhood, which they previously felt they were too old for. Those who were eaten by the house emerge from the basement. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Monster House (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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