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* DiabolusExNihilo: There isn't much of a lead-in to the appearance of the BigBad at the end... he's just ''there''.
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* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: There isn't much of a lead-in to the appearance of the BigBad at the end... he's just ''there''.
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''Little Monsters'' is a 1989 film starring [[Series/TheWonderYears Fred Savage]] and Howie Mandel. Brian (Savage) has recently moved because his parents thought that the family could use a change of scenery. Shortly afterward, strange things start happening for which Brian is blamed. Brian, in turn, blames his little brother.
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''Little Monsters'' is a 1989 film starring [[Series/TheWonderYears Fred Savage]] and Howie Mandel.Creator/HowieMandel. Brian (Savage) has recently moved because his parents thought that the family could use a change of scenery. Shortly afterward, strange things start happening for which Brian is blamed. Brian, in turn, blames his little brother.
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* CantGetAwayWithNothing: Zigzagged. Kids are immediately blamed for every accident and slip up, especially those caused by the monsters, but not for things that interfere with the plot.
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* CantGetAwayWithNothing: CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Zigzagged. Kids are immediately blamed for every accident and slip up, especially those caused by the monsters, but not for things that interfere with the plot.
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* CelebrityParadox: The main boy is played by Kevin from ''Series/TheWonderYears''. His Dad is... The voice of his future self from ''Series/TheWonderYears''.
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* MoodWhiplash: Seriously, this movie's tone is ''all over the place.''
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* ItsALongStory: Brian says this nearly word-for-word at the end of the movie when calling his parents after he and his friends rescue his brother and escape the monster world... except due to the sun having already risen at home, they wound up all the way in ''California''.
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* ActionGirl[=/=]BadassBookworm: Kiersten, who looks [[{{Expy}} suspiciously similar]] to Haley from ''TheWizard'', another movie starring Fred Savage.
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* ActionGirl[=/=]BadassBookworm: Kiersten, who looks [[{{Expy}} suspiciously similar]] to Haley from ''TheWizard'', ''Film/TheWizard'', another movie starring Fred Savage.
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''Little Monsters'' is a 1989 film starring [[TheWonderYears [[Series/TheWonderYears Fred Savage]] and Howie Mandel. Brian (Savage) has recently moved because his parents thought that the family could use a change of scenery. Shortly afterward, strange things start happening for which Brian is blamed. Brian, in turn, blames his little brother.
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* CelebrityParadox: The main boy is played by Kevin from TheWonderYears. His Dad is... The voice of his future self from TheWonderYears.
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* CelebrityParadox: The main boy is played by Kevin from TheWonderYears.''Series/TheWonderYears''. His Dad is... The voice of his future self from TheWonderYears.''Series/TheWonderYears''.
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* TheFairFolk: The monsters are all kids who stayed in the world under the bed for too long and have long-since forgotten their former lives; being exposed to light in the real world further disfigures them.
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* TheFairFolk: The monsters are all kids who stayed in the world under the bed for too long and have long-since forgotten their former lives; being exposed to light in the real world further disfigures them. It actually starts happening to ''Brian'' once he spends too much time in the monster world - he opens a door to flee a room full of monsters who are tormenting a baby, and ''his arm vanishes when the hallway light shines on it.'' This causes more than a bit of trouble when one of his few friends accidentally does the same with a ''flashlight.''
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Halfway through the film, the parents mention that they're getting divorced. It's never really brought up again.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Halfway through the film, the parents mention that they're they may be getting divorced. It's never really brought up again.again, except as the mother's excuse for Brian sawing the legs off all the beds.
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Chained sinkholes.
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''Little Monsters'' is a 1989 film starring [[TheWonderYears Fred Savage]] and Howie Mandel ([[Film/{{Gremlins}} Yes,]] ''[[MuppetBabies that]]'' [[BobbysWorld Howie]] [[DealOrNoDeal Mandel]]).Mandel. Brian (Savage) has recently moved because his parents thought that the family could use a change of scenery. Shortly afterward, strange things start happening for which Brian is blamed. Brian, in turn, blames his little brother.
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* EmptyPilesOfClothing: What happens when monsters are exposed to bright light.
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* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: There isn't much of a lead-in to the appearance of the BigBad at the end...he's just ''there''.
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* HeelRealization: Brian, and it's the CentralTheme of the movie; in the beginning, all Brian can think about is himself and the unfair things that happen to him. When he meets Maurice and is invited to abandon his few responsibilities, indulge in all his selfish fantasies, and torment whomever he deems worthy, he proceeds to [[TeensAreMonsters go utterly wild]]. Luckily for him, [[EveryoneHasStandards tormenting a baby is his limit]], and as a result he realizes he is becoming a monster - in every way imaginable - and flees, realizing that refusing to grow up will cost him everyone he cares for and his potential to accomplish anything positive in the world.
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* TheBully: And a very generic one at that, who has one of the most bizarre [[HeelFaceTurn Heel Face Turns]] ''ever''.
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* TheBully: And a very generic one at that, who has one of the most bizarre [[HeelFaceTurn Heel Face Turns]] ''ever''. Subverted, though, in that he's only codified as a bully by obvious stereotype; the only fighting he does is retaliation for Brian braining him with a sandwich, which he didn't know was an accident, and he doesn't hesitate to help when asked.
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''Little Monsters'' is a 1989 film starring [[TheWonderYears Fred Savage]] and HowieMandel Howie Mandel ([[Film/{{Gremlins}} Yes,]] ''[[MuppetBabies that]]'' [[BobbysWorld Howie]] [[DealOrNoDeal Mandel]]). Brian (Savage) has recently moved because his parents thought that the family could use a change of scenery. Shortly afterward, strange things start happening for which Brian is blamed. Brian, in turn, blames his little brother.
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* Title Drop: Said by Brian to Toad when describing the monsters, although it still seems forced as these monsters aren't exactly little.
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* Title Drop: {{Title Drop}}: Said by Brian to Toad when describing the monsters, although it still seems forced as these monsters aren't exactly little.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[TheWonderYears Kevin Arnold]] plays Brian, while Adult Kevin Arnold plays his dad (and Marv from HomeAlone).
** Boy [[Film/PulpFiction comes from the country of What]].
** Boy [[Film/PulpFiction comes from the country of What]].
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* NamesTheSame (Phonetically): Snik.
* RealLifeRelative: Fred Savage's brother plays... his brother.
* RealLifeRelative: Fred Savage's brother plays... his brother.
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* HeelFaceTurn: The bully, for literally no reason given.
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* HeelFaceTurn: The bully, for literally no reason given. It's implied that he's just the first person Brian and Kiersten think of when they realize they need another pair of hands to make their plan work, and they did the sensible thing and ''asked him to help''.
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** Boy [[PulpFiction comes from the country of What]].
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* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: There isn't much of a lead-in to the appearance of the BigBad at the end...he's just ''there''.
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* MonsterTown: The underworld populated by monsters which serves as a hub to get into people's bedrooms.
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* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: The whole set up, though most of them are more harmless troublemakers.
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* CantGetAwayWithNothing: Zigzagged. Kids are immediately blamed for every accident and slip up, especially those caused by the monsters, but not for things that interfere with the plot.
** The most bizarre case is when Brian's dad comes in after he sets off the monster trap. He's shouted at for their being Doritos on the floor, but his dad fails to notice that ''he sawed through the legs of his bed and rigged them with hinges so he could collapse the bed and trap the monster in the room with him.''
** The most bizarre case is when Brian's dad comes in after he sets off the monster trap. He's shouted at for their being Doritos on the floor, but his dad fails to notice that ''he sawed through the legs of his bed and rigged them with hinges so he could collapse the bed and trap the monster in the room with him.''
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''Little Monsters'' is a 1989 film starring [[TheWonderYears Fred Savage]] and HowieMandel ([[Film/{{Gremlins}} Yes,]] ''[[MuppetBabies that]]'' [[{{ptitlen6n99gnk}} Howie]] [[DealOrNoDeal Mandel]]). Brian (Savage) has recently moved because his parents thought that the family could use a change of scenery. Shortly afterward, strange things start happening for which Brian is blamed. Brian, in turn, blames his little brother.
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''Little Monsters'' is a 1989 film starring [[TheWonderYears Fred Savage]] and HowieMandel ([[Film/{{Gremlins}} Yes,]] ''[[MuppetBabies that]]'' [[{{ptitlen6n99gnk}} [[BobbysWorld Howie]] [[DealOrNoDeal Mandel]]). Brian (Savage) has recently moved because his parents thought that the family could use a change of scenery. Shortly afterward, strange things start happening for which Brian is blamed. Brian, in turn, blames his little brother.
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''Little Monsters'' is a 1989 film starring [[TheWonderYears Fred Savage]] and HowieMandel ([[Film/{{Gremlins}} Yes,]] ''[[MuppetBabies that]]'' [[{{ptitlen6n99gnk}} Howie]] [[DealOrNoDeal Mandel]]). Brian (Savage) has recently moved because his parents thought that the family could use a change of scenery. Shortly afterward, strange things start happening for which Brian is blamed. Brian, in turn, blames his little brother.
Eventually, Brian meets Maurice, a monster and the real culprit. Together they break into people's homes and play "amusing" pranks on them. Brian decides that he doesn't want to do this anymore after he starts turning into a monster. Brian's brother gets kidnapped by the villainous Snik, leaving Brian and his friends to rescue him, and they all end up in Malibu, California.
Not to be confused with LadyGaga's fanbase or the MercerMyer book of the same name.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* ActionGirl[=/=]BadassBookworm: Kiersten, who looks [[{{Expy}} suspiciously similar]] to Haley from ''TheWizard'', another movie starring Fred Savage.
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The underground MonsterTown seems to be small enough to make accessing a city across the United States seem like a walk across town. In addition some of the wooden stairs and structures seem almost M.C. Escher-like.
* BodyHorror: We don't really know what Boy really looks like; he wears the rotting skin and school uniform of a real kid over his own body. If his face is any indication, though, it's pretty horrible.
* TheBully: And a very generic one at that.
* CelebrityParadox: The main boy is played by Kevin from TheWonderYears. His Dad is... The voice of his future self from TheWonderYears.
* ComedicSociopathy: Minus the comedic part (mostly).
* CreationSequence: For the monster trap, complete with '80s montage music. It even continues playing after Brian finishes setting up the trap.
** And during dinner, oddly enough. Right in the middle of the montage.
* TheFairFolk: The monsters are all kids who stayed in the world under the bed for too long and have long-since forgotten their former lives; being exposed to light in the real world further disfigures them.
* FisherKingdom: The more Brian stays in the monster world, the more monster-like he becomes.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[TheWonderYears Kevin Arnold]] plays Brian, while Adult Kevin Arnold plays his dad (and Marv from HomeAlone).
** Boy [[PulpFiction comes from the country of What]].
* KafkaKomedy: But there's too much Kafka and not enough comedy.
* KillItWithFire: How Snik meets his end.
* NamesTheSame (Phonetically): Snik.
* MonsterTown: The underworld populated by monsters which serves as a hub to get into people's bedrooms.
* RealLifeRelative: Fred Savage's brother plays... his brother.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Halfway through the film, the parents mention that they're getting divorced. It's never really brought up again.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Maurice claims to be eleven years old (and to have been eleven for hundreds of years).
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Eventually, Brian meets Maurice, a monster and the real culprit. Together they break into people's homes and play "amusing" pranks on them. Brian decides that he doesn't want to do this anymore after he starts turning into a monster. Brian's brother gets kidnapped by the villainous Snik, leaving Brian and his friends to rescue him, and they all end up in Malibu, California.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* ActionGirl[=/=]BadassBookworm: Kiersten, who looks [[{{Expy}} suspiciously similar]] to Haley from ''TheWizard'', another movie starring Fred Savage.
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The underground MonsterTown seems to be small enough to make accessing a city across the United States seem like a walk across town. In addition some of the wooden stairs and structures seem almost M.C. Escher-like.
* BodyHorror: We don't really know what Boy really looks like; he wears the rotting skin and school uniform of a real kid over his own body. If his face is any indication, though, it's pretty horrible.
* TheBully: And a very generic one at that.
* CelebrityParadox: The main boy is played by Kevin from TheWonderYears. His Dad is... The voice of his future self from TheWonderYears.
* ComedicSociopathy: Minus the comedic part (mostly).
* CreationSequence: For the monster trap, complete with '80s montage music. It even continues playing after Brian finishes setting up the trap.
** And during dinner, oddly enough. Right in the middle of the montage.
* TheFairFolk: The monsters are all kids who stayed in the world under the bed for too long and have long-since forgotten their former lives; being exposed to light in the real world further disfigures them.
* FisherKingdom: The more Brian stays in the monster world, the more monster-like he becomes.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[TheWonderYears Kevin Arnold]] plays Brian, while Adult Kevin Arnold plays his dad (and Marv from HomeAlone).
** Boy [[PulpFiction comes from the country of What]].
* KafkaKomedy: But there's too much Kafka and not enough comedy.
* KillItWithFire: How Snik meets his end.
* NamesTheSame (Phonetically): Snik.
* MonsterTown: The underworld populated by monsters which serves as a hub to get into people's bedrooms.
* RealLifeRelative: Fred Savage's brother plays... his brother.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Halfway through the film, the parents mention that they're getting divorced. It's never really brought up again.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Maurice claims to be eleven years old (and to have been eleven for hundreds of years).
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