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The Monster of Highgate Ponds
The story of three children who find themselves with a friendly monster that grows at an alarming rate.
| Release : | 1961 |
| Rating : | 5.8 |
| Studio : | Children's Film Foundation (CFF), |
| Crew : | Director of Photography, Director, |
| Cast : | Ronald Howard Michael Balfour Frederick Piper Philip Latham |
| Genre : | Fantasy Animation Family |
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Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.
The Monster of Highgate Ponds has recently been released by BFI as part of their Children's Film Foundation release, Weird Adventures.A child's uncle brings back a Prehistoric egg from Malasya and gives it to his nephew David to look after. After a while, this egg hatches, revealing a dinosaur like monster. Very small at first, it soon starts to grow and David and his fried Chris release it into the lake on Hamstead Heath. 2 crooks are after the creature to money though...This monster movie makes a change from others as the monster doesn't grow into a giant and go on the rampage, as in a lot of other movies in this period.Monster of Highgate Ponds is a good way to spend an hour one evening. Great fun.Rating: 3 stars out of 5.
