Monster Trucks

Director: Chris Wedge, Mary Parent, Denis L. Stewart Chris Wedge

Overview

A high schooler named Tripp (Lucas Till) befriends an otherworldly creature, which is able to crawl inside his pickup truck and act as a supercharged engine. Soon enough, Tripp and the monster work together to stop an oil company from wreaking havoc on their town. Jane Levy, Rob Lowe, Amy Ryan, Danny Glover, and Barry Pepper co-star. Directed by Chris Wedge (Epic, Ice Age).

Product Details

Release Date:	04/11/2017
UPC:	0032429267436
Original Release:	2016
Rating:	PG
Source:	PARAMOUNT
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:44:00
Sales rank:	4,802

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jane Levy	Meredith
Thomas Lennon	Jim Dowd
Holt McCallany	Burke
Aliyah O'Brien	Junior Scientist
Daniel Bacon	Technician
Faustino Di Bauda	Roughneck
Samara Weaving	Brianne
Stacey Scowley	TV Reporter
Tucker Albrizzi	Sam Geldon
Ruairi MacDonald	9th Grader
Chris Gauthier	Mr. Geldon
Scott Patey	Deputy
Ryan Cowie	Other Deputy
Adrian Formosa	Security Merc
Maja Aro	Pretty Woman in Car
Philip Granger	Used Car Lot Owner
Daniel Boileau	Car Lot Associate
Alex Kliner	Grandpa
Pat Waldron	Grandma
Ryver Stone	Little Boy in Restaurant
Peter New	Tax Cab Driver
Simon Chin	Security Guard
Devielle Johnson	Terravex Security Guard,Terravex Worker
Christian Sloan	Driver
Ian Carter	Oil Exec
Howard Lai	Engineer
Candice Zhao	Executive
Chad Willett	Dad
Richard Keats	Field Supervisor
Tom MacNeill	Oil worker
Cinta Laura Kiehl	Actor
David Sardy	Composer

Technical Credits

Derek Connolly

Chris Wedge	Director
Mary Parent	Director,Producer
Denis L. Stewart	Director,Producer
Jonathan Aibel	Producer,Executive Producer
Glenn Berger	Producer,Executive Producer
Derek Connolly	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

The Onion made a video a few years back depicting a mock morning-show interview with "the screenwriter for the latest Fast and the Furious movie," a five-year-old boy who threw his Hot Wheels in the air and hollered: "Pcheeeeeew! I want the cars to go fast!" That same hyperactive spirit must have been behind the elevator pitch for Monster Trucks: Kids like monsters, kids like trucks, so how about a family film in which high-school misfit and budding mechanic Tripp (Lucas Till) discovers a creature in his garage that's half Cthulhu and half baby-faced manatee? It guzzles oil, makes cooing sounds, and loves to wrap its feelers around the axels of a beat-up pickup truck and burn rubber around town; unfortunately, a mean old oil-company CEO (Rob Lowe) and his hired goon (Holt McCallany) want to exterminate said beast in order to cover up the accident that unearthed it and two other members of its species. It's up to Tripp, his plucky, biology-tutor classmate (Jane Levy), and a concerned company scientist (Thomas Lennon) to get "Creech" the creature home. If all of this sounds as stupid as Snakes on a Plane, then the joke's on you, because Monster Trucks is actually great fun in the vein of the "wheeee!" stuff a pre-gravitas Spielberg used to executive produce in the '80s (think *batteries not included). Tenderhearted kids will warm to cuddly Creech, and their more energetic peers will enjoy trucks racing, crashing, and driving over other trucks in the many well-done action sequences. And their parents might appreciate it, too, along with the fact that there's no cursing, no fart jokes, no mushy kissing scenes, no one gets hurt, just trucks! Trucks! Pcheeeeeew!