Scary Godmother Halloween Spooktacular
In 2004, somebody threw enough money together to make an hour-long tv movie based on what I understand is a kid-lit book series called Scary Godmother. They didn't have a whole ton of money so the CGI looks pretty terrible and the animation has a rigidity that is aesthetically off-putting to say the least. But the story is pretty good (a young cousin who is the subject of her older cousin and his friends' bad Halloween prank is taken to a Halloween party by her witchy Scary Godmother and learns that monsters are just pretty cool people that might look a little scary but are gentle at heart) and there's some clever stuff both visually and in the dialogue that keeps this from being only worth a watch if you're nostalgic about it.
Most of the fun comes from the twists put on the standard monsters at the party. The Werewolf is a celebrity-obsessed old man, the adult vampires are old-school royalty while their son is just a pretty normal kid except he says "I'd live" instead of "I'd die" when protesting something he doesn't want to do. The only thing that kinda felt off to me was the "skeleton in the closet" who is played with an Ed-Wynn-esque gay voice that just hits the wrong tone (with a few adult oriented jokes that also miss the mark). The kids who were pranking the young cousin spend much of the movie arguing with each other outside and though their segments aren't as fun or inventive as the party stuff, the dialogue is a cut above what you'd expect from something like this. If you can stand their weird dead eyes (the eyes in this thing are almost entirely inconsistent, so strange), they're pretty fun to watch. The end, where the party guests scare the mean older kids, is a fun payoff from what the rest of the film sets up.
B- (fun, but nothing you absolutely need to seek out)