2016 · action · comedy · sci-fi
Monster Trucks
Directed by Chris Wedge1h 44m2016
Tripp is a high school senior with a knack for building trucks who makes an incredible discovery - a gas-guzzling creature named Creech. To protect his mischievous new friend, Tripp hides Creech under the hood of his latest creation, turning it into a real-life super-powered Monster Truck. Together, this unlikely duo with a shared taste for speed team up on a wild and unforgettable journey to reunite Creech with his family.
Our read: Monster Trucks (2016) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive action · comedy · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured action / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- warm
- kinetic
- inventive
- tender
- epic-stakes
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