Monster Island

A teenager wins a trip for his entire class to the hip new party at Monster Island where Carmen Electra is putting on a show. Can that really be called a prize? While Carmen is singing she is abducted by a giant insect and a few of the kids band together to save her.

This tv movie is a throw back to the older fifties and sixties monster movies, complete with giant bugs, cavemen, claymation, Adam West as mad scientist Dr. Harryhausen (a nod to Ray Harryhausen), and a volcano. The movie avoids CGI and even uses a guy in a monster suit!

Though it's not a great movie by any means and was completely predictable, there was some entertainment value and it was better than I thought it would be. Truth be told, I didn't even want to watch it, but my friends decided that since it had monster in the title we should check it out. If you go into it not expecting much and with the knowledge its aimed at teenagers, then you'll probably be okay with it.