Rob Zombie Should Never be Allowed to Direct Another PG Movie After ‘The Munsters’ (Movie Review)

The Munsters

Rating: 2/10

Director: Rob Zombie

Writer: Rob Zombie based on characters developed by Norm Liebmann and Ed Haas

Style: Comedy

Time: 110 minutes

Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5T0V3_hlU

Rating: PG

Review by Mike Szymanski

Rob Zombie should never be allowed to direct another PG movie. Rob Zombie should NEVER be allowed to direct another PG movie!

After terrifying us with psycho murderers, a coven of witches, werewolf Nazi women and more, he should never be allowed to dabble in a G or PG movie. Keep to “The Devil’s Rejects” and “3 From Hell” and “House of 1,000 Corpses.” Arguably, his best is “The Lords of Salem” where a history writer played by Bruce Davison discovers a witch coven in Salem with the likes of Dee Wallace (“Cujo”) and Patricia Quinn (Magenta from “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”)

So, I had hopes for Rob to turn “The Munsters” TV show into something grittier and more meaningful. Instead, he forgot about the goofiness of the original material, and used the re-make to showcase his wife Sheri Moon Zombie as Lily, and her greatest assets.

Of course, it’s not a Rob Zombie movie without Sheri, but he could have used some of her diabolical evil comedy that she shows in her other movies with this character of Lily. He doesn’t take advantage of that.

There are a slew of odd characters and character actors such as Richard Brake as Orlock and Jorge Garcia as Floop the hunchback, but otherwise this terrible reboot is full of over-acting, and just plain silliness.

Some of the best moments are in the early part of the film when Lily is set up on blind dates by her father the Count played by Daniel Roebuck. All this is before Herman even arrives on the scene.

Otherwise, the whole thing is rather disappointing. We do find out where Spot, the dragon under the staircase, comes about, but this storyline is long before their son Eddie the werewolf, and beautiful/plain Marilyn shows up as we remember in the TV series.

We do find out how they arrived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane, and some of the back story, but this is a waste of time.

It’s nice to see a cameo with Elvira (Cassandra Peterson), but you can spend time watching her “Haunted Hills” movies for a better dose of her there.

Oh, and I repeat: Rob Zombie should never be allowed to direct another PG movie — again.

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