Love and Monsters

Appealing leads, a big heart and great monster design and splatter make terrific fun.

Love And Monsters is a blast, an unassuming, immensely winning monster movie filled with great lo-fi creatures and a likeable cast. As a template for making a leaner, less bloated summer movie, Hollywood could do a lot worse.

Director Michael Matthews has invented a new sub-genre: dank comedy.

Plays it both sweet and silly.

It's not mock-heroic in a winking way; it doesn't seem so pleased with its own punchlines. It's rueful and shrugging.

Michael Matthews' "Love and Monsters" is the rarest kind of movie these days: A fun, imaginative, genre-mashing adventure that was made with a modest amount of big studio money.

Love and Monsters offers an adventure full of excitement and emotion, striking a beautiful balance of humor and heart.

Love and Monsters features plenty of comedy and heart, courtesy of O'Brien's voice over and a script from Robinson and Duffield. I'm a big fan of Dog, the way the film handles Joel's relationship with Aimee, and the Oscar-nominated realism of the CGI.

Love and Monsters is a warm-hearted, properly funny and very likeable film.

It's always weird to say a story about the end of times is heartwarming, but Michael Matthews' film is exactly that without ever coming off as syrupy or disingenuous.