it got better as it went along, but still maintained the same level of over the top silliness, although im not too sure how much of it was intended.
monsters were great overall, the first one is a tad cheezy, im glad this was rated r, the ending was..pretty good, i cant imagine how else it could have ended. the acting…meh. the main character, especially at the end was not very convincing, seemed like christopher lambert with a couple more acting lessons. they pushed marcia gay harden’s crazy christain thing pretty hard. i liked ollie.
i think the thing that made this a slightly above mediocre movie and not a great movie was just the acting. all these people are in a grocery store, everything’s relatively ok, then all of them turn into completely crazy assholes over the course of an afternoon. perhaps if there had been a bit more tension built it would have been more convincing, or indicated that more time had in fact passed.