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Monster Trucks

Monster Trucks

Animation, Action, Adventure

Looking for any way to get away from the life and town he was born into, Tripp (Lucas Till), a high school senior, builds a Monster Truck from bits and pieces of scrapped cars. After an accident at a nearby oil-drilling site displaces a strange and subterranean creature with a taste and a talent for speed, Tripp may have just found the key to getting out of town and a most unlikely friend.


The critical consensus

Objectively ridiculous but mostly fun, this is better than you could have predicted given the title but squarely aimed at a young and undiscerning audience.

**(*)(*)(*)Helen O'Hara, Empire Online, 26/12/2016

It has tentacles and hot wheels, yes, but not the legs or bright ideas to sustain itself.

**(*)(*)(*)Mike McCahill, The Guardian, 26/12/2016

In its own demolition derby-like way, the film has a certain outlandish charm. Its script, though, makes no sense whatsoever.

**(*)(*)(*)Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent, 29/12/2016

Monster Trucks is more surreal than anything Jeremy Clarkson and Top Gear ever devised. It is also one of the strangest and silliest films of 2016, and such a throwback to the live action Disney films of the 1970s you expect a young Kurt Russell or Herbie The Love Bug to join in.

**(*)(*)(*)Allan Hunter, Daily Express, 30/12/2016

Gas-guzzling monsters are the heroes in an over-inflated action yarn that is full of inconsistencies.

**(*)(*)(*)Wendy Ide, The Observer, 01/01/2017

There’s a reason this has sat on a shelf for two years.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 04/01/2017

With its release pushed back several times, perhaps Paramount had regrets about greenlighting this one as, despite a perky pace and a serious eco message, Monster Trucks is far from fresh.

***(*)(*)Karen Krizanovich, The List, 26/12/2016

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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