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Nebbercracker was at first angry after he has discovered the truth, but eventually relents and tell them both his and Constance's story. DJ was happy that he didn't cause the old man to be killed, but only crippled him instead. Nebbercracker then lashed out to them to leave, but his wrath was quickly changed into worries as he realized that kids would be approaching his house. He then starts to walk towards his house which somewhat became gentle to him. By this point, DJ learned that all this time, the house was possessed by Constance's spirit.
Role in the Film
It received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $142 million worldwide against a $75 million budget. It received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, but lost to Happy Feet and Cars, respectively. However, he can be resourceful, should the need arise; an example is when he pilots an excavator to save Nebbercracker from his house's wrath at the climax of the film.
Spiritual Elements
They make a plan to find the heart and put out the fire while Chowder asks if there are more options. Which DJ agrees; wait and do nothing until the house finds out where they are and it will eat them, Chowder disagreed with that idea and goes on with the plan to find the heart and put the fire out. DJ finds binoculars on the wall near a small hatch to the door and he realizes that Nebbercracker has been watching him the whole time while he was trying to get Chowder's ball back. Jenny then shows DJ a set of photos with Nebbercracker and his late wife, then DJ says to Jenny that Nebbercracker used to have a wife, but he fattened her up and ate her, much to Jenny's disgust. A little later, Chowder wakes up in the depths of the house and fights a living TV and enters a flooded room. He climbs up to a platform where he moves a crate to a nearby pipe with a valve and turns it to drain out the water.
Boy Kills World
Chowder asks DJ to retrieve it; he responds that once something lands on Nebbercracker's lawn, it's gone. Chowder begins to tear up and says that he paid $28 for the basketball, having to rake 10 yards and ask his mom for money several times. Unfortunately, he is caught by Nebbercracker, who seemingly suffers a heart attack and dies while confronting DJ. A shocked Chowder and DJ watch as Nebbercracker is taken to the hospital by ambulance. After discovering the remains of Constance and a failed attempt to destroy the furnace, the house's heart, DJ, Chowder, and Jenny are separated again by three giant pipes.
He also explains that his years of hostile warnings to children were meant to protect them. We learn via flashback that he rescued his morbidly obese wife from a freak show and pledged to love her and protect her from cruelty. Later, Chowder's Dad called DJ as he was worried about him since he wasn't home when his parents got back.
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Meeting Jenny Bennett
Chowder argues with DJ about their failed plan, and how they nearly died in the house, until Jenny tells them to stop fighting, saying that they're behaving like babies; DJ promptly states that they were thinking like babies. The house breaks free from its foundation, with trees to support it (the arms), and chases the group to a nearby construction site. During the film’s climax, as the house tries to eat Nebbercracker, Chowder fights the house off with an excavator, causing it to fall into a pit. DJ is given the dynamite, and he and Jenny climb to the top of a crane while Chowder distracts what was once Nebbercracker house. The trio see Nebbercracker dancing with Constance's spirit before she fades away.
Like Robert Zemeckis’s “Polar Express,” “Monster House” (for which Mr. Zemeckis served as an executive producer) uses the digitally captured movements of real actors rather than computer-generated algorithms as the basis for its animated images. The postures and gestures of DJ (Mitchell Musso) and his pals — a pudgy fellow named Chowder (Sam Lerner) and a preppy redhead named Jenny (Spencer Locke) — have an authentically loose and antic look. They seem like real kids, rather than like super-cute, big-headed cartoon moppets. Chowder is a chubby 12-year-old boy with blonde hair and blue eyes. In the Gameboy Advance version of the video game adaptation of the film, DJ describes him as huge.
I’m sure Chowder will remind you of someone in your fifth-grade class, wherever or whenever that was. The children, left to their own devices, must conquer the evil that, all but unnoticed, flourishes in their midst. At first the house, which sits on a perfectly ordinary suburban block, seems like nothing more than the dilapidated home of Mr. Nebbercracker, a cranky old man with bad teeth, a gruesome comb-over and Steve Buscemi’s voice.
The next morning, Halloween, Chowder glimpses a red-haired girl, Jenny Bennett, selling chocolates. Infatuated, he murmurs "Hello.", getting DJ's attention, leading him to take a look at her, becoming infatuated as well. They continue watching her, until they notice she's heading straight towards Nebbercracker's house. Unfortunately, the house awakens and almost eats her, but DJ and Chowder intervene, and Zee steps outside to tell Chowder that his dad is on the phone looking for him, causing the house to go dormant again. Chowder is really good friends with DJ as he wanted to go trick or treating with him on Halloween.
DJ and Chowder spy on the house but Chowder refuses to believe the house is possessed. The house wakes and is disturbed when it finds Chowder and DJ on its property. The carpet comes out to get Chowder and DJ, but the boys scared by the house's demonic appearance, run into DJ's house in fear.
They learn that the house is a "domus mactabilis" (Latin for "deadly home"); a monstrous being created when a human soul merges with a structure. The only way to kill the house is to destroy its heart; its source of life. They conclude that the heart must be the fireplace, as DJ realizes that the chimney has been smoking since Nebbercracker died. Chowder is first seen wearing a rubber monster mask and almost getting hit by DJ's parents' car when they leave town for the weekend for a dentist's convention.
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