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Reviews Counted:141
Fresh:130
Rotten:11
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: As populace pleasing as it is intellectually satisfying, The Host combines scares, laughs, and satire into a riveting, monster movie.
Theatrical Release:Mar 9, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $2,010,000
Synopsis: The talk of the 2006 Cannes International Film Festival, THE HOST, the latest film from critically acclaimed visionary director BONG Joon-ho, has already garnered a substantial amount of... [More]
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Byun Hee-bong, Bae Hae-il, Bae Doo-na
Director: Oh Bong-Joon
Can 93% of American movie critics be wrong? On the soft and squishy Rotten Tomatoes website, an amazing 70 out of 75 critics gave a thumbs up to The Host, a hokey South Korean monster movie that makes Godzilla look like The Godfather.
The problem with the film is that the sum isn't greater than the parts and the pieces don't fuse in a way that's consistently pleasing or cinematically satisfying.
Top CriticMaybe this is actually a treatise on the dissonance between East and West, science and nature, promise and tragedy. Nah. It's just a dumb, crappy horror movie that wants to be celebrated as such.
Implausibles become inane in this Godzilla Jr. jubilee, something just right for the DVD cheapie bins.
Not just a monster movie, it’s a movie about family, and it’s a movie about the lengths we’ll go to to save our loved ones.
The Host is a loopy, feverishly imaginative genre hybrid about the demons that haunt us from without and within.
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The Host mixes bittersweet humor and horrifying monster antics in a way that would be almost unimaginable for any modern American film.
A thrilling ride and a sometimes dry, sometimes sweet comedy, but beneath all that is a humane and tragic view of life worthy of the greatest films. Even those without rubber monsters.
Top CriticAn absolutely corking giant monster movie, told with more panache and verve than anything since the lean and hungry glory days of Spielberg.
...relentlessly entertaining.
I have never seen anything like "The Host," a terrifying East Asian monster movie that is as funny as it is grotesque %u2014 almost a subversion of the entire genre
A perfect mixture of the silly and the grave.
like a mutant hybrid spawned from the improbable union of Little Miss Sunshine and Godzilla; for in this family comedy and political satire an unnaturally evolved tadpole just happens to loom (very) large.
Imagine Little Miss Sunshine and Alien mixed together and you'll have an inkling of what South Korea's The Host has in store for you.
Unlike Spielberg of late, [it doesn't] cop out
Because this movie was made in Korea, and not in the focus group fancying US of A, The Host tends to avoid most of the genre's obvious stumbling blocks.
This is not your standard monster movie and, I must admit, it caught me off guard.
Packed with politics, family conflict and satiric references to some of the more absurd aspects of Korean cinema, The Host never forgets to be a scary, icky, over-the-top fright fest, either.
September 02, 2009:
First Look: The Host 2 
Eager for an early glimpse of one of the monsters you'll see in "The Host 2"? Twitch has what you're looking for. More...
March 18, 2009:
Bong Joon-ho Discusses Upcoming Projects
Director Bong Joon-ho isn't involved with the upcoming sequel to his hit monster movie "The Host," but he does have a number of other projects in the pipeline -- including "an... More...
November 19, 2008:
The Host Is Coming to America
According to Bong Joon-ho, director of "The Host," Universal has purchased the American rights to his film, and the studio is planning a remake for U.S. audiences. More...
June 26, 2008:
The Host 2 Filming in Early '09
Director Ning Hao will helm and script a Chinese sequel to the Korean box-office smash The Host, scheduled to film early next year. More...
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