You know what else I hate about this new Draculaura? Is that she is what most modern media depict teenage vampires: angsty, antisocial, dark secret. What made OG Draculaura so great was that, not only did she embrace the romanian style in her daily outfit but was the complete opposite of what modern vampires were expected to be at the time. She was bubbly, sweet, loved fashion and boys and always offered a shoulder to cry on. Not only that but she also stood out amongst other vampires WITHIN the Monster High universe. This film paints itself as progressive and open minded when it is in fact enforcing these steryotypes that weren't even all that appealing when they were in their prime.

"The movie starts with Clawdeen just skating around." Wait, don't tell me. She's not like other girls?

"Do not blame the actors, blame the person that made the script" -Me

I really don't like how they're making deuce a "reformed bad boy" even though deuce was never a bad guy, he didn't go down a rough path at any point and he's always nice to everyone that's one of the reasons him and Cleo work so well🙄

I feel that Lagoona, Ghoulia, Abbey, Heath barely did anything in the movie, it felt to me they were cameos, instead of side characters. at least we got some background interactions between Abbey and Heath.

The Duece and Clawdeen ship just feels like they took the most popular female character and most popular male character from the original Monster High and were like, “They belong together!” (Ignore Cleo there in the background). Also, did this feel like Nickelodeon was trying to copy Zombies to anyone?

1. Duce looks like he’s about to join the cast of riverdale 2. Heath looks like scar from an off off off Broadway production of the lion king 3. Do they not know colors cause why is Frankie blue and ghoulia green 4. Lagoona looks like a Doja cat outfit reject

Headmistress Bloodgood was one of the main adults fighting for equal rights in the OG show. She even said that her main goal was to make monster high equal for all monsters, and even open it humans one day. Her goal was equality. Making her predjudiced completely erased her ENTIRE character.

I was so upset that Headmistress Bloodgood was racist. Not only humans, but she was saying all gorgons are bad? It just doesn't sit right that she has been headmistress for centuries to the only school that accepts all monsters no matter what, and she's racist. There are three adults in this movie, and personally I don't want to see one of them have the character arc of "not being racist." She should be over that by now.

“It’s for children!” Is a terrible excuse. Kids should get the highest quality/effort entertainment…being “our future” and all.🤔

“We are Cleo and deuce! And nothing will ever change that.”

My mom and I, as monster high fans, got through the first 35 mins and had to stop. We're finishing tomorrow but it was so difficult. They just changed everything. The monsters have hated humans in the past, but even then it was due to anxiety of Halloween. And not them erasing holt Hyde and Jackson jekyll. The best characters. I'm just disappointed and shocked how many people like it so far. They've rewritten so many characters, I wish they just changed the names at this point

bro i was so confused, if clawdeen is half human, how'd she get an invite? are they just that stupid and didnt know?? this movie had me very confused

clawdeen's siblings have been confirmed to appear in the animated series! probably won't be related anymore, but at least they still exist!

I’m bummed we’re definitely not getting a Jackson Jekyll/ holt Hyde from the original series in this version. I liked him

"he looks like a theater kid. he looks like he's 0.5 seconds away from pulling out his guitar and serenading you... He looks like he's about to give a monologue about how weird he is." As a theater kid, I can confirm this. that's painfully accurate. It's the beanie for me 😂

its the fact that kids nowadays are gonna think this is what monster high is what physically pains me!!!

They changed their personalities so much. It’s made me so mad.

I feel so bad for cleo I feel like they push her off to the side because of the trio they favored. #NOTMYCLEO take me back to boo York

literally ALL the budget went into the songs bc they slap

Honestly? I thought the movie had potential, or they could’ve at least made up new characters as like “ the new generation” or something like that. The songs were a bop but the movie was a flop, I give it a 3/10 ps Frankie was ADORABLE and has my heart! ❤️

Why do the reboots have to keep getting rid of Clawd, actually why are the only “main” male characters always just Deuce and Heath?

Them getting rid of clawdeens siblings is my villain origin story

Actully Drac and Abbey having accents is important, as they erased positive Slavic representation, and knowing how Hollywood is very Slavophobic, this was definitely nationalism and anti-Eastern European propaganda. Also lagoona has a Colombian accent not Romanian

Yknow this makes me glad that Nickelodeon never bothered with the ever after high reboot

No way they wrote Clawd out of the movie 💀I'm not even gonna watch it but I'm kinda pissed anyway lol

If I were tasked with making a live action MH movie, I would basically just make it a straightforward Teen movie, but they just happen to be monsters. Like, the fun part about the original Monster High was it was basically just random teen antics in high school, but they’re vampires and werewolves. Like I would just combine the plots of New ghoul @ school and the Fearleading nationals storyline. Clawdeen would still be the main character, but the half human thing would be completely abandoned.

I would be angry about Draculaura's personality change, but somehow this Draculaura just fits so well to the vibe of this movie. Clawdeen on the other hand is just horrible, they basically made her into a much worse version of Frankie

essentially they gave clawdeen frankies personallity, frankie draculaura's personality, and draculaura clawdeens personality ALSO DEUCE????? what did they do to you

I liked Frankie’s character in this. They were the only one to make me laugh with all one-liners and ridiculous facts they were speaking. “Mayonnaise, I got that”

Im sorry clawdeen- 💀

I’m sorry but I honestly dislike what they did to the characters, do I even have to give a reason? Dracularas iconic mood and pigtails, Clawdeens girl boss personality and All her siblings are just gone and I miss her accent, Cleo and Deuce broke up, the new designs are just a bit weird (I’m fine with Lagoona having piranha teeth, Dracularas practicing witch magic) but everything else just like why? Monster high was a big part of my child hood they kind of ruined it they changed the personality’s so much and the other characters really didn’t do much in the movie will Clawd still be with Draculara? I might be seen as petty but that’s just my opinion I know it isn’t a big deal but for me it saddens me how they changed so much stuff.

"You're kidding. There's gonna be MORE of this shit?" I laughed way too hard! Thanks for saving me the trouble of watching this movie.

I hate it. They changed so much about the characters

This movie honestly felt like a poorly written fanfiction

People are saying “they had a low budget get over it” do you think all those cosplayers on TikTok had it high budget? No! but they literally made themselves look almost exactly the same (also I thought the Claudine was a lesbian? Am I wrong? Or is she straight sorry its been a while since I’ve seen it)

I havent watched it yet, but Deuce looks like he’s being turned into Riverdale Jughead I want my Jocky Nerd Himbo back Edit: LMAO just said the same thing

I thought it was cute, but it didn't have the maturity of the original. The ogs felt like actual teenagers. These felt like middleschoolers. They also felt like completely different people. Like idk why they made the most mature, sarcastic and confident character the awkward geek. Also i love draculaura in this but she's a different character, and honestly draculaura was a style icon but i didn't like her personality that much so maybe thats why i like the reboot.

why would they make the entire movie about ending racism? Its clearly shown in other monster high movies, and why make them discriminators to non monsters? I mean Victor is right there guys.

Can we just appreciate that Clawdeen’s dad is called APOLLO- Least human name I’ve ever heard (but does actually represent the duality of her being half werewolf) but fucking perfect

I just wanna point out- that ghoulia CAN SPEAK ENGLISH NOW???

Clawdeen : If your going to rewrite her make her confident, stylish etc That's how she is in the og.

i really loved the songs in this, absolute bops, will listen again, although I have some questions to the art director, there were some weird moments there. frankie was my fave, like maybe I am biased bc I already loved ceci, but they were just adorable there are a few inconsistencies and questions that I can look past in this, but there is one that absolutely sends me every time. deuce says "imagine never taking these glasses off, no one trusts me, teachers think i'm sleeping" and there is all the stuff about not being able to stare into anyone's eyes, and i'm like yeah, when you wear sunglasses, this all makes sense, but they gave this version regular glasses that I assumed had special lenses that stop you from being turned into stone, and I was fine with that, cuz I get you need to see an actor's eyes, and also sunglasses can be a mess for production, and also maybe it fits into the reformed bad boy thing, he can have regular glasses and it works, BUT WHY WOULD YOU WRITE THIS SPECIFIC LINE AS IF HE WORE SUNGLASSES????? he literallysays I wish I could see your eyes and the next frame they are staring into each other's eyes with their CLEAR GLASSES!!!!

Hi! Yes, a lot of the characters personalities were changed like draculaura’s personality.why was she so rude to Clawdeen and Frankie in the beginning of the movie. I am assuming it would be for character development? Also, I actually like Lagoona’s new character design, I think it’s cute. I will miss the original Lagoona character design as well.

Everything you said in this movie is what I have been ranting about to my friends since it came out. I miss all the missing accents and characters that they left out or got rid of all together. Monster High was my childhood- I watched all the movies- and this movie basically changed most of the characters I grew up loving. 😢

What I wish they did is make a new cast and maybe the old cast could be their parents or teachers

The weird part is the comparison you made between Lagoona in this movie and OG Draculaura makes me wonder why Draculaura, as her cute, bubbly self, wasn't in the "Queen Bee's Bestie" spot if Ghoulia wasn't going to be? Like, it's pretty obvious to me that they're both from prestigious families who are pretty controlling and expect a lot from their children (or, at least, it's safe to guess that that's at least one reason Cleo is the way she is), and I could see their families pulling what Amity's parents did to her in The Owl House and "gently encouraging" them to be best friends. And if Cleo was really supposed to be this awful person, they could have showed her being a bossy and overbearing friend to Draculaura and perhaps ratting her out for practicing witchcraft. That or maybe they could have shared the witchcraft secret because maybe Cleo has taken to seeing it as being a way to honor the ancient Egyptian gods.

This monster high live action remake might be worse than the winx live action remake.

Werewolves were never part human in MH, even in G1. None of them ever changed into humans or had a human form. They just got stronger on a full moon.

Frankie is non-binary in this generation, they say that in the beginning of the movie when they meet Clawdeen. Also lagoona is latina now and so is Clawdeen, Draculaura is taiwanese now as well.

Is it bad I think Clawdeen has the worst outfit? (which hurts even more to me because she is supposed to be all about fashion)

Am I the only one who thinks the creators rebranded Monster high a little to early? I wouldn't care if it happened but this is major monster high content; I think it was risky to completely rebrand what made it loveable for the first live action. They could have attracted older and newer fans to the franchise if they had executed it better.

Ok I have two major things firstly I don't remember claudine ever been interested in guys doesn't matter if you headcanon her as aroace or a lesbian she does not need a male love interest I will die on that hill second thing not only does claudine being half human not make any sense on it's own but most clasic monsters are human fx zombie: dead human, ghost: dead human, mummy: dead human, vampire: dead human, witches: very alive humans who just happen to practise witchcraft.

gonna be honest here, i thought the movie was pretty okay. like, maybe it’s because i got used to watching nickelodeon movies, so it wasn’t hard for me to watch it. i really wish they didn’t push clawdeen dating deuce, but other than that this movie was fine :) i really loved the music, and some of the characters were pretty good, i loved frankie!! they make me happy!! other than that, the cgi could be better, and i wish they casted the correct people, such as an arab person for cleo (coming from a half-eygptian). but, this movie was okay, i’d give it a 6/10

I wish they did better on writing a good plot than what they gave us, and the beginning scene wasn’t even necessary or wasn’t made very well. The songs though… they were a bop!

cleo seems to be the only saving grace of the school & movie

Ngl I think a better plot would be that the so called “impure heart” was the reason monsters kept losing their abilities and it was then revealed that Komos was using them to become all mighty monster ectr ectr rather than just having happen all at once

Deuce switches lanes every gen like how he did in “mh not so perfect” it’s the blueprint y’all I’m telling you💀

I don't know if it could fix the movie, but here's some of what I think would have made it better: A) Frankie as the protagonist. Seriously, was main character status the price for making them non-binary? B) This isn't Clawdeen Wolf. This is a generic girl lead with no personality so the targeted demograph can use her as a surrogate. What should have happened: Clawdeen turns into a human because werewolf, so she's guarded until the roomies grow on her. Instead of Clawdeen getting cozy with Deuce, Frankie and Draculaura try to steal a lock of Clawdeen's hair. Her story is she's primed to take Cleo's queen bee spot, but they make up eventually. C) Kill the teen romance subplot. Cleo and Deuce are meant to be, and it's just wrong if Clawdeen's not gay. D) The whole "moral" wasn't a bait and switch with Clawdeen and Komos. Monster High didn't like the lack of unity. Revealing secret "flaws" and everyone accepting everyone would heal it.

I actually thought the movie plot was like Harry potter and the chamber of secrets. The whole monster heart or impure monster thing is just like mud bloods and pure bloods which is introduced and mainly expressed in chamber of secrets. The lab thing is just like the chamber. The formula and mr cosmos going in there is like the basilisk. Someone (cosmos, Tom riddle) got in the chamber and lab through students. They didn’t know if they could keep the school open because of those problems. The attacks of petrificación are kind of similar to cosmos using monsters powers against them (even if it’s just in the end it’s literally the same, I mean deuce got turned into stone is very similar to someone being petrified too.) The whole reason for all of this is blood purity and/or who you were born too, monster and wizards, or muggles and humans. Not to mention the writing with blood on the walls which is just obvious.

The new gen deserves better Also how does holt have a fully grown adult kid yet all the other main characters are still in high school

If I knew anything about Monster High, I could see being frustrated at the refusal to be loyal to significant aspects of the source material.

Saying it’s made for kids is such a terrible excuse,it should be made for everyone but be child friendly especially a legacy brand like monster high. Things that are aimed for everyone tend to have longevity than things that’ll solely for kids. Things only aimed at kids will quickly die off once the target audience grows up.

I think if you're going to watch this movie you shouldn't compare it to G1 as those are two separate things and worlds and this a reboot. Me personally? I enjoyed it. It was cute and the main trios relationship was nice to see. The outfits weren't as bad as everyone said they were going to be. I loved Frankie's 2nd outfit, Draculaura's last outfit, and the outfit Clawdeen had on when she sneaked into Bloodgood's outfit. It was an all over cute movie. Wish they didn't push Clawdeen being interested in Deuce. Like sis had more chemistry in the movie with Draculaura and Cleo than Deuce. Pirate it tho cause the director is racist

the movie is oddly charming in a z-o-m-b-i-e-s kind of way but i will not lie when i say every time i see clawdeen and deuce in the same scene i physically recoil thankfully they didnt kiss at all

And a detail that was never brought to light but it's extremaly important is that Bloodgood indirectly caused Hyde's death. He was under her care, under her protection, and she knew that Monster High was the only place he would be safe from humans. But she let him down, and he got killed. And! He only created that potion thing *because* Bloodgood found out and was going to expel him. Otherwise, he would continue his life as normal. What angers me is that they *never* acknoledge that. Bloodgood is just like "Ooh, Clawdeen, we accept you!", And we are to forget that she caused an inocent student's death simply because he wasn't like the others? No. Don't work like that. The movie ends in a note that seems like Hyde (and maybe Jekyll, by extension) was a bad seed from the start, and that Komos was unjustifyed, but that's not the case at all. Hyde/Jekyll were just trying to live their lives even though they felt like they didn't belong anywhere, just like Clawdeen. He/they didn't deserve to be swept under the rug like they did in the end.

Making one poorly received reboot is one thing, but making a poorly received reboot (Monster High 2022) one year after ANOTHER poorly received reboot (Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go) is something so legendarily bad that: 1. Only corporate greed and corporate ineptitude can explain completely. 2. Only Mattel knows the reason. 3. The ill-timing seems completely deliberate.

Also based on what I’ve seen g3 lagoona is more like g1 draculaura but like also with blood thirsty twist. She grew up in isolation and loves romance, fairy tails and telenovelas, but unlike draculaura she’s very much not a vegan and I feel like has to hold back her murderous intent. “A star crossed romance between a monster and a witch, the monster eats the witch and makes accessories out of their bones!” Shes adorable and terrifying and I love g3 lagoona while also liking chill g1 lagoona. (This is mostly the cartoon which is better than the movie.)

I enjoyed the movie, until the ending. Maybe it’s just me, but I was lowkey rooting for Komos to destroy the school. I don’t blame him for being mad, Bloodgood and everyone else literally sent his father to die for no reason, heck I would be mad too. G1 may also have racism, but never sent Jackson to his death. They made Monster High more morally corrupted than they were before.

i dont like how the school starts off as unaccepting whereas in g1 they always were always accepting no matter what :(

Oh my goulh I was not ready for that Cleo compilation she seemed like she was really trying when she followed Frankie and Duce making fun of her Mummy issues was below the belt

Duece? MORE LIKE DOUCHE LMAO i'm sorry I couldn't help it.

I knew I wasn't the only you thought this felt like Descendants! When watching the movie, I tried not to compare it to original. But my mom, who's watched the Monster High movies with me during my Monster High obsession, pointed out how the new movie was completely different and we were mourning together. For a rating, I would give this movie a solid 5/10 because I had a half and half feeling about it without comparing it to the original. The writing felt iffy, and the plot felt a little bit off. I found the story of Mr. Hyde a little sad because they were talking about how terrible humans were when they kicked out Hyde for doing absolutely nothing but being half human. The CGI did look a little off to me, but I can let the pass because I can never notice terrible CGI when I'm trying to follow the story of a movie. Also the romance between Deuce and Clawdeen felt forced. And some of the character designs were just humans in bright eye make-up, not even a full body paint just make-up, with a wig or dyed hair or highlights 💀 On the other hand, I loved the main character's designs(except Frankie's bright pink earring in their final outfit). But, I'll let that slide just being Frankie is so gosh darn adorable in this movie. They were even the shortest character compared to the other main characters. Frankie was already in my top five favorite characters, but for this movie, they are my first favorite character. Also, I love how Clawdeen is the tallest out of all the main characters except Deuce. It just looks so cute. Another thing I like is the songs. I could listen to them everyday. The colors in this movie are really pretty too. I really like the blue and purple theme to it. Also also, Clawdeen's human self looks so adorable, I love short curly hair. I better stop writing this before I turn this into a whole ass essay. So ya, 5/10, partially recommend it

SHE HAD A BROTHER CLAWD!!!!! SHE HAD A BUNCH OF BROTHERS AND A SISTER!!! AND CLAWD WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HER BFF’S DRACULAURA’S BOYFRIEND!!! This movie and series are no longer sticking to the original show. I am NOT a fan of the new animation, they basically just revived the characters but for a completely different story

Yeah I always thought that Frankie was the only one really in character and everyone else pretty much got character assassinated lol.

The original Cleo would be furious if Deuce flirted with Clawdeen

I got to play the cyclops character that shows up in a few scenes. Even though the movie wasnt the best its one of the nicest casts ive worked with in Canada.

i watched it multiple times and i really enjoyed it! i really love the settings, characters and styling, abbey, clawdeen and draculaura's outfits were so good! plus the soundtrack absolutely bangs, and i love nonbinary frankie. deuce's snakes gave me a jumpscare tho 😭

thank you, we needed this and you gave it to us

It looks like they wanted a descendants franchise for Nickelodeon and unfortunately they choose monster high to pull it off

lagoona being pink is not a problem for me! I actually love her! and her being latina is amazing to me! I understand it's not the same thing, but I'm sure the show will be better!

Here’s my biggest problem. They just left Cleo’s arch in the dust. She just gave up her love for duece bc what? The mc loved him? Apparently she’s like self obsessed but everyone knows it’s all like a front from being in her royal ass awful family. The end was just her giving up and getting a side role??? Cleo was always kinda a side character but not like this. She is not a villain and they didn’t even make her that villain-y, she wasn’t even that mean. She’s just “self obsessed” bc why? They were trying to seem like mean girls and pull a smart nerdy girl mean popular girl thing but like.. it’s not working. Cleo just looks like a godamn victim who’s just feigning self confidence. The whole social media following Frankie thing didn’t even come across as mean to me? She has like no friends so obvi she was gonna follow some new nice person? Right? Just nothing adds up to me..

Manly what I disagree with is the fact that they took away Claudia and Clawd also let's not forget howleen (hope I spelled it right) and the fact that the messed up draculara and her personality. ALSO WHY DID THEY DO THAT TO LAGOONA LIKE WHY ALSO WERE IS GILL

#CLEODESERVESJUSTICE ✊

I'm almost 30, but I very much enjoyed this movie. The main trio were adorable, the songs were extremely catchy, and I enjoyed it for what it was. Wouldn't mind seeing more from this remake.

Hmm I watched it with all my siblings and we thoroughly enjoyed it, but I understand not everyone could have the same experience… I just am really sad that in the movie Clawdeen has great style but her doll has them horrendous patterns on her overalls and shirts… they literally do not match TTwTT Probably gonna need to start buying doll clothes online for her

I'm sure this was said before but if this was a stand alone (like MH didn't exist) it would still be a meh movie but interesting concept. I personally didn't like it but I can see why others might. But bc MH has been a thing and a very well loved franchised even with it's many versions, it's just hard to get past that they just changed all the characters. At least to me the MH characters are what MADE MH so beloved and then I see this and go "who are these ppl???" so annoying! I don't understand the deviation from the source material at all. Not even the whole "make it more for this generation" you could still do that but keep them similar to who they are. And I don't believe in that "well don't compare it to G1" UM how can I NOT?? It's not a stand alone it's literally called Monster High so you would expect the characters FROM the Monster High franchise with the SAME NAMES and (nearly) SIMILAR LOOKS to be the SAME characters??? But the songs are really catchy though lol

Frankie was the best character in the live action movie

as someone that struggles a lot with change, i try my best to make peace with whatever changes happen, no matter how hard they might be to adjust to. if i have a problem with it, i normally keep it to myself. but this type of change...i just dont understand. what is the point of changing characters so drastically they dont feel like the same characters anymore? same reason why i didnt like the PPG reboot, which is another series i grew up with. modernizing is fine, reboots are fine, but these just dont feel familiar in the slightest. theyre basically just original characters with familiar names slapped onto them. and it doesnt make any sense to me. and i get change can be good, but sometimes it just isnt necessary.

There were two things I liked about this movie. Frankie acted super cute, and Cleo looked like Tori Vega.

they fucked up all the characters, their personalities, styles. Clawdeen was my FAVORITE character when I wis little, this one is nothing like her

there is an entire song about cleo breaking up with deuce and them being so wholesome like bro? They are the definition of hurt/comfort. This isn't my otp.

WHY DOES DEUCE HAVE SEE-THROUGH GLASSES???? IT DEFEATS THE POINT OF THEM DDD:

Audibly exclaimed "what the f*ck?!" when that compilation of Cleo being treated like an inconvenient smear stain got pulled up. Like yeah she was a little rude in the original, but she wasn't some heartless b*tch who was only meant to act as an antagonist! She was just vain, so seeing everyone react really uncomfortable by her presence or simply ignore her is rather depressing. Also, can't believe they made sweet Draculaura act like the rich kid from Lazy Town...

They got rid of clawd?! 😦

What I didn't get is how Drac accepts his daughter doing witchcraft after making such a big deal about it. Just bc it was his daughter, he accepts? It's giving biased. Like, I know you love her, but if you believed monsters doing witchcraft is bad, stick to it bro.

When I used to watch og monsters high i always thought Clawdeen was into girls. She was too Alpha for any guy from the school and didn't show much interest in guys in general All the MH couples complimented each other

I know it’s a reboot and all but seriously, the whole movie was basic someone seeing a cool brand and saying “Im just going to take the characters and their name and not their personalities, traits or their Background.” And making it into those “I’m not like other girls” movies. Deuce and Clawdeen? Yeah, absolutely no.

I genuinely feel like if the original Monster High company made a movie with this plot, it would have been 100% better. The plot itself wasn’t bad, but the designs and personalities were mid to be honest.

My this is why the ever loving fuck was everyone so shocked that clawdeen was a half human...she's a fuckin wear wolf... and why was draculora practicing witchcraft...she barely did anything vampire related... just make her a witch... and why did they make duce and clawdeen a thing..they would have never even liked eachother in the original