My Sweet Monster (2021) User Reviews

Sweet Movie

[brandyysnapp · 6/10 · 13 January 2023]

W A R N I N G: Pauly Shore sings.

Other than that, it's an enjoyable little movie.

The . Animation . Is . Near . Realistic . For . All . The . Scenery . While . The . Characters . Held . A . Cartoonish . Appearance. The . Story . Was . Simple . While . The . Characters . Kept . It . Fun. Most . Of . The . Singing . Was . Enjoyable. I . Merely . Wanted . To . Watch . A . Lighthearted . Cartoon . And . That . Is . Exactly . What . This . Was, . A . Very . Nice, . Lighthearted . Little . Cartoon/animated . Movie. I'm . Trying . Very . Very . Very . Hard . To . Attain . . the . Minimum . Words . Goal . But . I . Really . Don't . Have . Much . Else . To . Say.

Take That

[nogodnomasters · 5/10 · 29 May 2022]

The plot starts out questionable for children. A mail clerk (Pauly Shore) extorts the King for the hand in marriage of Princess Barbara (Haylie Duff). She escapes on her horse to the forest only to be captured by the monster Bogey (Jon Heder). He wants to ransom her. After this, things settle down to a Beauty and the Beast musical with Gaia thrown in.

The film was okay. I am not sure of the age of the target audience. Themes at times dark for younger kids, things silly for older ones.

Those dreamy stories, they might just be masking another kind of lie

[noshouse · 6/10 · 12 August 2023]

It's kinda like when your intimate photos or videos end up in someone else's hands, man. That person's wicked face, in this animated flick, is actually depicted as the bad guy we see. But you know what, even when someone's got something on you, you can't go against the love for your family. I absolutely love how the writer flipped the script on those prince charming tales. It's like a Santa Claus-level plot twist for me. Those dreamy stories, they might just be wrapping up another kind of lie. We're in the dark, unknowingly choosing to anticipate and believe in the intricate stories full of exaggerations and details.

The points are for the lady villain

[egenerica · 2/10 · 5 July 2022]

I went in with no idea what to expect. Enjoyed the first ten minutes with steampunk vibes and robots, the flying light globe bots were cute. The quality of the animation is admirable for not having the full weight of the Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks machine behind it. From the lip synch you could tell it had been made elsewhere and I am a long-time fan of European animation, so was gunning for the high production values. But as soon as our main characters started speaking I felt the ick creeping in. Entitled, backdated attitudes about women, children and authority. Simplistic ideas about property, inheritance and power. I know it's a kid's film and had low expectations for plot and attention span, but this really gave me Eastern bloc vibes from the get go. While the message to respect Mother Nature is admirable, I think every adult watching knows who the real Mother implied in this film is. It's not going to poison the minds of your kids but there's better cr@p out there. I enjoyed the literary villain. We all know publishers are the worst.

Horrible from A to Z

[tranquilitybirdpot · 6 June 2022]

Did anyone watch this movie? Is this Russian botnight? I was pleasantly surprised with the opening. How it wanted to grasp a steampunk like magic. But everything was clunky. The story, the animation and the acting. Horrible from A to S.

It's pretty bad

[demonrecon-99668 · 3/10 · 18 April 2023]

Right off the bat. This is pretty bad. The animation is okay I suppose. At times it's better than others but overall pretty bad but passable I suppose.

The voice acting is so so. From okay to bad.

The writing is pretty bad. I guess at least the princess is the best part of the film. No one can sing. The songs are random and really didn't need to be in it.

The plot doesn't really make a lot of sense. As in the whole thing should have been resolved in like 2 seconds. For starters, where were the guards. Then why didn't the king you know get some of the guards to arrest him when he appeared in front of the audience of people?

Overall it's harmless but the villains just so weak. He is a completely terrible villain.

At least the world is interesting. I like the steampunk type setting. The world is legitimately interesting and I would like to see more. But the writing is just so bad.

Also, for anyone that doesn't realize this, this is not a Disney or Pixar or even American film. It's a Russian one.

tbh this movie is basically beauty and the beast

[cassidyalfa · 2/10 · 31 July 2022]

So i just watched this movie for the fun of it cause I heard Pauly Shore was voicing in the English version of this movie. At first I was quite surprised by the animation although it doesn't match at all with Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks. The voice acting for the English was absolute cr@p and it just got me cackling half the time. I gotta say though barbara is a cool female character ngl. It was also unnerving that the royal mailman who looks to be older than barbara is wanting to marry her even though she was just 16... yikes. But yeah the plot twists caught me off guard which ig is good? The lady villain was very much slay and she was the best character yup I said it. But tbh this didn't really teach me anything valuable other than don't commit deforestation. So yeah I wouldn't recommend this one unless you wanna have a little laugh.

My sweet monster

[fatmaha-11792 · 7/10 · 11 February 2022]

The move had a simple plot, I like how when the story moved to the ending it hooked me in thinking that the ending was ent going to be a happy one but turns out it was the happiest they could be, though I really wish there was more tension.

Surprisingly good...

[paul_haakonsen · 7/10 · 27 April 2023]

Right, well I had no idea that I was watching a Russian-made animated movie when I sat down here in 2023 to watch the 2021 animated movie "My Sweet Monster". It never struck me that the movie might be a dubbed version. But nonetheless, I watched the animated movie with my son.

I had no expectations really to the movie, as I hadn't heard about it prior to sitting down and watching it. But I will say that writers Aleksandr Arkhipov, Dmitriy Novoselov and Maksim Volkov put together a rather enjoyable script and storyline. It is definitely a story that follows an archetypical fantasy fable formula. But it works out quite well.

The version that I saw, the Englished dubbed version, had the voice talents of the likes of Pauly Shore and Jon Heder on the cast list, along with others whom I was unfamiliar with. And it was actually because of Shore and Heder on the movie's cover that I thought this was an American produced animated movie.

The animated movie could have fared better without the singing, especially since the English voice cast were relatively unable to carry proper notes. Most of the singing in "My Sweet Monster", at least in the English dubbed version, was rather cringeworthy.

Something that really impressed me about "My Sweet Monster" (with the original title being "Buka. Moyo Lyubimoe Chudishche") was the CGI and art style. The entire world in which the story took place had such an overwhelming attention to detail that it was just spectacular and breathtaking. It looked marvelous and it really made the world come to life on a very gratifying manner on the screen. I will actually say that "My Sweet Monster" is well worth watching for the CGI graphics themselves.

I was genuinely surprised and entertained by "My Sweet Monster", and if you enjoy animated movies, then you definitely should give this one a chance, should you have the opportunity to do so. It is an animated movie that has an appeal to children and adult alike.

My rating of "My Sweet Monster" lands on a seven out of ten stars.

It was a long -long time ago when an animation touched me amotinaly

[gacsogergely · 10/10 · 13 May 2022]

You know, Shrek was fine. It was funny, at places clever, but the animation was low tier. Frozen had 1 catch song, otherwise it was - let's face it - s-tear simple. Yes, I'm starting strong here, lol.

The first thing I saw here was the hair of the princess. It was messy, it was average-people hair, nothing like a Disney-princess' liquid metal hair. Even. Tangled had that very generic hair, mediocre animmation. The hair always tells how top-notch your animation will be.

This also has this slavic background, and one thing it gives is that 1800's looks in the 21th century. Wonderfuly anachronistic atmosphere. Just like the robot servants. The castle only has robots, some female servants, and a fashion-person. Not just for hijinks-sake, but for a good reason (overprotecting parent).

And this is another thing I just love. The worldbuilding. Everything has a reason, a good one. And even the references to other works fit into the story, and if you don't catch them, it doesn't hurt the experience. The twists will still work.

Let's limit myself, so someone will read this, but this is a genuin great animation, on the level of classic Disney. Give it a chance, please!

Excellent to see none of the new Disney nonsense

[mattiaskarlberg · 10/10 · 22 June 2022]

My six year old daughter and I loved this movie and thought it was so nice that none of the new Disney nonsense was included! My daughter couldn't sit still because she thought it was so amazing with all the different turns and twists. She couldn't stop talking about Barbara and her adventures. Very cute. Lovely soundtrack.