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PARENTS BEWARE!!!  Monster House may be the first horror film Hollywood has made for children and is completely inappropriate for children younger than 13.  Unlike so many animated movies that offer lessons, such as family is important and teamwork is good, Monster House isn't looking to teach your children. It's looking to scare your children.

And it does. The movie may be rated PG (should have been PG-13), but Monster's use of sound, shadows, scary images, and references to cannibalism, demon possession and murder will likely have parents flinching in their seats with the kids. 

Twelve-year-old pals DJ and Chowder, suspect that something is amiss at the creepy house of old man Nebbercracker.  When Nebbercracker is taken to the hospital with a heart attack, the boys decide to find out what's going on in the house that not only seems to eat stray kites and basketballs, but trespassers alike.

Monster exaggerates childhood memories like the battles with babysitters, the anticipations of Halloween and the cranky neighbor who scares all the neighborhood children.  The movie treats children with complete disrespect and the pre-teens are sarcastic, think they're smarter than their parents and are going crazy over the opposite sex.  Okay, maybe the teenager part is not so exaggerated, but young kids don’t need any extra ideas about puberty.  Perhaps older children really do want to be scared, but the movie touches on subjects that are inappropriate, such as underage drinking and calling a girl ‘prude’ for not going to second base.