Monster High

Monster-Monster High, Monster High,

The Party Never Dies!

I love, LOVE everything about this show. Although it is aimed at girls between preteen and teenagers - I have to admit that the concept for Monster High was brilliant! I love the puns and the references that which inspired and based on the characters of this shows. This is basically all your well-known horror creatures(their offspring, to be exact) collected in one place and doing awesome things!

Hmmm Ghoulia's missing and Deuce is in it...

It follows 16-day old(yes, she was created very recently) Frankie Stein, daughter of Franskenstien's monster going to her new school, Monster High. All she has are misleading teen magazines on how to make friends and mingle with people - oh sorry - GHOULS. Yeah, the characters in this show are monsters they aren't really...living, so to speak.

She befriends 6 girls and experiences crazy adventures! It's funny although it can get a little bit annoying at the girls are kinda shallow. Forgive them, they are, after all - teenagers.We have been there.

Character introduction!

A) Frankie Stein

She's the daughter of Frankenstein's monster and we can assume her mother is the Bride of Frankenstein. She's very naive, sweet and friendly. Out of all her friends, she's the 2nd most sensible one. Unlike her mish-mash of a father, Frankie turned out quite well. The bolts on her neck helps her channel electricity to recharge her.

B) Cleo De Nile

Cleo is a thousand year old teenage mummy. She is the most popular girl in her school and heads the fearleading team with Frankie and a few of the ghouls in the school. Her boyfriend is the clueless and oblivious yet friendly Deuce Gorgon, son of Medusa. At first she has a fierce rivalry with Frankie but soon warms up to becomes quite nice. The diva attitude still lingers and her catch phrase is "OH, MY. RA!" Get it? She's Egyptian, her God is exactly that. See? This show is so intelligent!  She often whips out crazy Egyptian idols to help her but it has all only ended in disasters. Which is sometimes - deserving. Cleo is my least favourite character.

C) Clawdeen

Clawdeen is a werewolf and goes 'freaky' in full moon. She is said to come from a large family of litters. Her big brother Clawd, is a senior in Monster High. Clawdeen is aggressive and badass and fearless!

D) Draculaura

She is Count Dracula's daughter and is 1600 years old. She can't date until she 1700 years old. She sports a Lolita image and is the shortest among them all. She's a hopeless romantic and a little bit of a airhead. She's also a vegan vampire - very rare from the classic vampire. The thought and sight of blood and meat alone makes her queasy and faints.

E) Lagoona Blue

Lagoona Blue is a sea creature from 'Down Under' - the Deep Blue Sea. She is said to be the daughter of Creature from the Black Lagoon. I guess the Black Lagoon creature managed to find a female mate after all(if you watched this movie, you'd understand =P). She has an Australian accent and is on the track team. The most calm and relaxed among the 6 girls, she also sometimes acts as a 'mother-figure'. She has a complicated relationship with Gill, her on-and-off freshwater creature boyfriend. She is my favourite character!

F) Ghoulia Yelps

Ghoulia is a zombie. She's the 'brain' of the school and is the smartest ghoul in school. She doesn't speak like the rest of the girls, limited to only moans and groans - Zombie language. 

Zombies are discriminated against in her school for being slow and creepy but Ghoulia always managed to outsmart the naysayers into their place.

There are many minor characters like Spectra(a ghost who can walk thru walls and likes to spy on people), Jackson & Holt(a play on Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde), Operetta(she's a Siren. Consequently, the character exhibits talent in songwriting as per the mythical creature she's based on), Torelei(a nameplay on Lorelai) and her feline cronies and Slow-Moe(Ghoulia's love interest).

This show is absolutely cute and smart and BRILLIANT! Such an original concept. They were actually a series of Halloween-esque dolls created by Mattel, the same company famous for it's Barbie dolls! One would think after a mega-successful line of the super-girly Barbie dolls, Mattel would be cautious in releasing Horror-themed line of dolls and I LIKE IT! Yeah! Thank you Mattel for releasing Monster High dolls! 

Definitely watch this show. All the 3-volume episodes are available online in their Youtube channel - the webisodes are short animation ranging from 1min-3minutes. 

I hope you too enjoy my new-found love for the Monster High girls!