By: Marina Yang

This is my review of the movie ‘Monster High: 13 Wishes’, made by Mattel Entertainment in 2013 and produced by Nerd Corps Entertainment. Our main characters consist of Howleen (our main character), Draculaura, Frankie Stein, Clawdeen Wolf (Howleen’s older sister), and Gigi Grant (genie), with small segments featuring other characters like Clawd Wolf (Howleen’s older brother) and his friends in a fright show.

This movie greatly speaks about the grip that greed has on one person, being shown in different ways like wanting popularity (mainly featured from Howleen), money, etc. Howleen is jealous of her older sister and brother being so “popular”, despite the title of that being outdated in high school; just well-known.

While Howleen and Clawdeen’s friends clean up in the attic they come across a genie lamp, rubbing it a couple of times to reveal Gigi, our genie assistance. Despite all the good of having a genie may be, Gigi wasn’t the only thing released, her evil twin sister, Djinni, has been summoned and will take over power all over again. Howleen blinded by the want of being popular may make that mission easier for her.

This movie is a “kids” movie I’d say, but it highly acknowledges the feeling of greed and a look into real life with the “need” to be popular and liked by everybody. That factor really enhances my opinion about this movie rather than just reminiscing about my past/childhood, as I feel at least popularity, or being liked by everybody, is a great factor in people’s lives somewhere in life.

Alongside the message and meaning of the movie, the visuals I’d say are very fashionable and cool for the castle inside of the genie lamp. This is a good film for anyone who is into fashionable films or just for a blast in the past.

My review on this would probably be a 4/5 because I like the message a lot, and feel a lot of people need to hear this and realize how you might lose yourself trying to build a fake you for recognition. It’s at a 4/5 though because I feel like they had better films than this, but this is still relatively good in my opinion.

‘Monster High 13 Wishes’ is free to watch on Plex, or with a subscription/rental on other streaming services.