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2012 · family · comedy · tv-movie · sci-fi

Girl vs. Monster

Directed by Stuart Gillard1h 28m2012

ElsewhereIMDb5.34k

cosy
brisk
gentle
inventive
redemptive
tender

Movie DNA

Cosy, kinetic, gentle family / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Skylar finds out that her parents are monster hunters after she accidentally releases some monsters from a secret containment chamber; so she and her techno friends must recapture all the monsters and also save her mom and dad from these monsters who are out for revenge.

Our read · Girl vs. Monster (2012) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive family · comedy · tv-movie entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

Cast

Olivia Holt Kerris Dorsey Brendan Meyer Katherine McNamara Adam Chambers

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The shape of Girl vs. Monster

DNA · twelve axes

The reading.

Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy

Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic

Intensity · GentleExtreme

Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal

Hope · NihilisticRedemptive

Stakes · IntimateEpic

Humour · NoneBroad

Reality · GroundedFantastical

Density · SparseTwisty

Warmth · ColdTender

Auteur · TransparentSignature

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