Moshi monsters 2

Digital resources‎ > ‎

Moshi Monsters

Moshi Monsters is a social networking website designed for children aged 7 to 11, though I have seen monsters tagged with ages from 5 to 68. The site designers say that fun, education and safety are the guiding themes for the website. The site combines solving puzzles, working to earn points, making purchasing decisions, caring for a pet, and making connections with others on line in a safe environment.
Children adopt their own monster pet, which they then play with, care for, and keep happy. There are six monsters to chose between:
  • the Katsuma—an anime-inspired rabbit;
  • the Diavlo—who blows up like a volcano when annoyed;
  • the Furi—reminiscent of Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street;
  • the Zommer—a zombie doll with a missing eye;
  • Luvli—the flirty heart shaped monster;
  • and the cuddly little Poppet.
After customizing their monster with different color combinations, children are provided with a home for their monster.
Participants play games and puzzles to earn rox (currency that they then use to buy toys, home decor, clothes and food for their monsters). Opportunities to learn about budgeting and making decisions between different expenses are part of this process as well.
The fastest way to earn rox is by playing puzzles. Puzzles provide an educational component, challenging children to improve their spelling, arithmetic, spacial skills, logic, vocabulary, and more in entertaining ways. The puzzles get harder if the player is doing well, and get easier if the player is struggling. The child's monster acts as a cheerleader, showing great enthusiasm when a child improves their performance.
In addition to puzzles, Moshi Monsters has games. One example is earning rox by serving ice cream cones to impatient monsters. This improves mouse control and speed. It also communicates to youngsters that they must work to earn money before they can spend. It may help some youngsters gain empathy for overworked food service personnel.
Monsters get sad if they aren't visited frequently enough, and get sick and hungry if they aren't fed. Monsters do not die, however, unlike some other virtual pet games. Sick and sad monsters can be restored to health with food, tickling, shopping, and doing well on puzzles.
Players can meet other players at the forum, or on the street in Monstro City. They can go to see the other players' monster homes and admire the often humorous items they have bought with rox to decorate their homes.
A lot of thought has been given to safety. Parents must give approval before a child can join. The site does not collect personal information about users, photographs cannot be posted on the site, notes to friends on their pin boards cannot include phone numbers, email or street addresses. There are automatic filters to prevent inappropriate posts to personal pin boards and forums. Unkind posts do get through sometimes, and when this happens the recipient can report the post or even block the poster. Bullying or abuse of the rules can result in the site owners banning a child from the site.
There are no ads from outside companies on the website, and basic adoption of a monster and use of the site is free. However, there are frequent reminders that the paid level provides access to many interesting opportunities. Parents may find themselves being pestered to upgrade their child's access to the website to member access, at the cost (as of late April 2010) of $6 a month, or $30 per half year, or $50 per year.
There are quite a number of grownups who play Moshi Monsters—grandparents, parents, teachers, even one or two library students and librarians. The monsters are adorable, the puzzles can be challenging, and it is interesting to see how other players have decorated their monster's homes.
Home page:
http://www.moshimonsters.com/
Information for parents:
http://www.moshimonsters.com/parents
Cost of membership: http://www.moshimonsters.com/membership/pricing
Tour of Moshi Monsters (2 minute introductory video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKdAmD_C1p4
Survey of children's online community sites:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/business/31virtual.html
Reviews:
http://www.gamezebo.com/online-games/moshi-monsters/review
http://prigg.thisislondon.co.uk/2009/04/a-monster-exhibition.html
Here is a video of the game in which the work serves ice cream to earn rox: http://www.youtube.com/user/moshimonsters#p/u/5/7ZRuHUEjSaE
Clockwise from top left: orange Katsuma, black and red Diavlo, purple Zommer, red Luvli, pink Poppet, brown Furi

Monster house of a non member.

Fairy Tale Castle, with multiple rooms inside. Children must become paying members for their monster to live in such a house, though non-members can visit all the members' only homes.

Monster tree house, multiple rooms, members only.

Mountain Mill house, multiple rooms, members only.

Monster celebrating its person doing well on a puzzle

The Series 2 Figures are the second series of Moshi Monsters collectable figures, manufactured by Vivid Imaginations. They were released on September 2nd, 2011. These figures were released with the Moshi Monsters Originals series.

Moshi Monsters: The Movie
Directed byLee Seok-hoon
Bukyung Kim
Wip Vernooij
Morgan Francis
Written bySteve Cleverley
Jocelyn Stevenson
JK Youn
Based onMoshi Monsters
StarringEmma Tate
Tom Clarke Hill
Phillipa Alexander
Keith Wickham
Music bySanji Sen
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures UK(United Kingdom)
CJ Entertainment(South Korea)
Release date
  • 20 December 2013 (UK)
  • 1 February 2018 (South Korea)
81 minutes[2]
CountryUnited Kingdom
Ireland
South Korea
LanguageEnglish
Korean
Budget£1.5 million[3]
Box office$2.9 million[4]

Moshi Monsters: The Movie is a 2013 British-Koreananimatedmusicalcomedy film directed by Wip Vernooji and Morgan Francis and based on the virtual world of Moshi Monsters, which existed from 2007 until 2019. The film stars Katsuma, Poppet, Diavlo, Luvli, Furi, Zommer, Dr. Strangeglove, Sweet Tooth, Bobbi Singsong, Mr and Mrs Snoodle, Buster Bumplechops, and more monsters along with a load of Moshlings. The film was released to UK and Irish cinemas on 20 December 2013.

The film was later released to China and Korea cinemas on 1 February 2018. Earning $2.9 million worldwide, it was a box office flop.

Despite not seeing a release in North America, it has been broadcast on Starz in May 2019, and is also available on Hulu and Sling TV.[5][6][7]

Plot[edit]

Moshi Monsters 2008

The film takes place in Monstro City, a peaceful island in the ocean. Monsters Poppet, Katsuma, and Mr. Snoodle are at home. Katsuma starts talking about starring in Roary Scrawl's documentary about Monstro City. The trio goes into town to meet him. In Monstro City, a strange-looking Flumpy escapes with Fifi through the sewers. Poppet, Katsuma, and Mr. Snoodle enter the diner. Roary Scrawl introduces them to Zommer, Furi, Luvli, and Diavlo. He says he wants them all to star in his movie, which angers fame-hungry Katsuma. The news reports the missing Moshling epidemic and says that arch-criminals Dr. Strangeglove and Sweet Tooth are still on the loose. The news cuts to Buster Bumblechops (who broke his leg during his adventures) talking about a mysterious Great Moshling Egg, which is now on display at his museum. Poppet thinks the egg is an addition to the movie, so they go to visit Buster. Dr. Strangeglove is seen spying in the sewers with the strange Flumpy, who turns out to be his sidekick Fishlips. Fifi is put in the Glumping machine. Dr. Strangeglove and Fishlips steal the egg. Later, the six Moshi Monsters, Blinki, and Roary arrive at the museum. Buster wants to show them the egg only to find it's not there. They find out that the egg was replaced by a Glump. In its place is a holographic kit left by Dr. Strangeglove, ordering them to find three items by midnight - fried Oobla Doobla, a Blue Jeeper's tears, and Frosted Rainbow Rox, which together will make the component to hatch the egg.

Moshi Monsters 2015 Christmas Codes

The monsters decide to go on a quest to retrieve the three artifacts, get the egg and defeat Dr. Strangeglove. The first stop they went to is Gombulagombula Jungle. The Oobla Doobla is in the Wooly Blue Hoodoo Village [that can communicate whistles]. Poppet and Zommer went separate ways, but Katsuma and the others got captured. Poppet and Zommer soon found them. The Wooly Blue Hoodoos challenge them to a game of limbo. Poppet fails but Zommer wins by using his body parts. The monsters end up getting the first artifact.

During the path, the monsters fall into a trap and an underground candy cave and get stuck in hard candy. Sweet Tooth is revealed to be the one who tricked them. While she was distracted Diavlo melts the candy and gets everyone into the carts and they all flee from Sweet Tooth. Diavlo and Luvli escape but they get captured by Dr. Strangeglove, who then kidnaps Zommer. Later, Katsuma, Poppet, Mr. Snoodle, and Furi get to Jollywood. They soon meet Bobby SingSong. Poppet spies a Blue Jeeper, who likes music and are rare, and tries to catch it. Katsuma falls in an accident, causing the keeper to laugh cry, and Poppet catches the tears by using the bottle. Now that Poppet and Katsuma have two artifacts, they try to get help searching for the last piece, but Furi wanders off (as he is captured) and Katsuma, Poppet and Mr. Snoodle are teleported to the cold mountains after being distracted during Bobbi Singsong's kerfuffle.

Poppet and Katsuma begin to climb up the mountain, but Katsuma and Poppet have an argument and Katsuma shouts, causing an avalanche to begin. Before the three monsters can get buried in snow, Katsuma pulls Poppet and Mr. Snoodle into a cave. The snow covers the entrance up. Katsuma says it was all his fault because he ruined everything and caused awful things to happen. Poppet cheers him up by singing the song We Can Do It and they manage to find the Frosted Rainbow Rox. Katsuma, Poppet and Mr. Snoodle go to a wooden hut where Dr. Strangeglove stands in front of them. Soon, they fight over the egg, and Strangeglove escapes but Mr. Snoodle attacks him. Dr. Strangeglove asks Mr. Snoodle if he remembered when deep down he was a good guy. But before Mr. Snoodle can reply, Dr. Strangeglove says that he lied and pushes Mr. Snoodle out of the hut and he falls to his death. Poppet mourns over him and now Katsuma and Poppet are captured.

In Strangeglove's ship, the monsters are now in a cage ready to be killed while Dr. Strangeglove and Fishlips take the ingredients to the egg. Suddenly, Poppet hears a noise and it is revealed that Mr. Snoodle survived the fall. He explains through his trumpeting that he survived by whistling. He landed safely in a balloon and flew back down to the Moshis. Katsuma doesn't know how to open the lock, because he can't whistle but only blows raspberries, but Mr. Snoodle can. They all free the Moshlings and attack the Glumps, defeating Dr. Strangeglove.

When they return to Monstro City, the Moshi Monsters bring the Great Moshling Egg back to the museum, just before it hatches. The creature is revealed to be a Mrs. Snoodle, and Katsuma whistles for the first time. Deep in the jungle, there are more rare eggs waiting to be hatched in the temple at the beginning of the movie. During the first part of the credits, Mr. Snoodle and Mrs. Snoodle do the Snoodle Doodle, and then pictures showing the aftermath of the film are shown on the left side of the screen while an instrumental of We Can Do It plays.

UK Voices[edit]

Moshi monsters 2007
  • Emma Tate as Katsuma and Luvli
  • Phillipa Alexander as Poppet
  • Ashley Slater as Dr. Strangeglove and Zommer
  • Boris Hiestand as Fishlips and Newsreader
  • Tom Clarke Hill as Furi and Roary
  • Keith Wickham as Buster Bumblechops and Diavlo
  • Rajesh David as Bobbi SingSong
  • Steve Cleverley as Sweet Tooth

Korean Voices[edit]

  • Jeon Tae-Yeol as Katsuma
  • So-Young Hong as Poppet
  • Hwan Chin Kim as Diavlo
  • Ham Soo-Jeong as Luvli
  • In-guk Seo as Zommer
  • Kang Dong Ho as Furi
  • Young Sam On as Dr. Strangeglove
  • Sang-Hyun Yoon as Sweet Tooth
  • Mi Ja Lee as Mr. Snoodle
  • Won Ju as Glumps
  • Goo Ja-Hyeong as Roary
  • Kim Il as Bobbi SingSong
  • Sin Yong-woo as Fishlips
  • Jeong-ho Choi as Newsreader
  • Won-jang Lee as Buster Bumblechops

DVD release[edit]

Moshi Monsters: The Movie was released on DVD on Monday 14 April 2014 in the UK. It comes with either a Jackson or Mrs Snoodle trading card and a Mrs Snoodle code for online and the Moshi Village app.

Reception[edit]

The film received mixed reviews from critics. Based on 9 reviews, the film has a 67% rating on aggregator Rotten Tomatoes with an average rating of 5.1/10.[2] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian claimed that 'fans of the online game Moshi Monsters may find the film version an incredibly annoying and baffling bore.' English critic Mark Kermode gave the film 1 star, believing it may entertain very young children, but 'will leave adults bored, stupefied, revolted and appalled'.[8] Despite the disparate reception from critics, the film has been disliked by audiences, garnering a 3.2 rating on IMDb.[3]

Moshi Monsters 2019 Codes

References[edit]

  1. ^ abWolfe, Jennifer (20 August 2013). 'Mind Candy Confirms First Ever Moshi Monsters Movie'. Animation World Network. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  2. ^ abhttp://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/moshi_monsters_the_movie/
  3. ^ ab'Moshi Monsters: The Movie (2013)'. IMDb. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  4. ^'Moshi Monsters: The Movie'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  5. ^'STARZ - Exclusive Originals, Hit Movies'. Starz.com. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  6. ^'Watch Moshi Monsters: The Movie Streaming Online | Hulu (Free Trial)'. www.hulu.com. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
  7. ^watch.sling.comhttps://watch.sling.com/browse/my-tv/details/program/fa39f45d6bd149bc94fe954f1e38daef. Retrieved 29 February 2020.Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ^https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/dec/22/moshi-monsters-the-movie-review
2007

External links[edit]

  • Moshi Monsters: The Movie on IMDb

Moshi Monsters 2018

Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moshi_Monsters:_The_Movie&oldid=945490645'