Corrected entry: They make a big scene that a virgin is needed to read the text from Van Helsing's diary in order to get rid of the monsters. After Patrick's sister fails because it turns out she isn't a virgin, everyone freaks out until they realize Phoebe could help them out. Not once is it mentioned the virgin had to be a female. So why couldn't the 12 year old boys read from the diary and get rid of the monsters?
Corrected entry: When the monster squad first encounter the Mummy, Sean mentions it is 20 minutes till midnight. A few other scenes happen next before the boys arrive at Times Square. However, the clock in Times Square shows only a few minutes have passed.
Correction: The scenes you referenced are actually happening all at the same time. For instance, The kids are battling the Mummy at the same time Dracula is blowing up the treehouse, so it makes sense that only a few minutes have passed.
Corrected entry: In Monster squad Rudy has killed 2 vampire girls. No one is shown killing the 3rd one, and she is not shown sucked into the vortex. She just vanishes.
Correction: Throughout the ending battle you can see 3 vampire girls in the background dead on the ground. Just because the producers didn't film Rudy killing the 3rd vampire doesn't mean it wasn't done.
Rudy killed two of them while standing up (arrow and stabbing) but when Wolfman runs out from the alley, Rudy is kneeling next to the third maiden. It also appears he is trying to catch his breath so it's indicated that the maiden put up a fight.
Corrected entry: As the vortex is going through, Frankenstein's monster is saying goodbye to Phoebe, while Phoebe is pleading with him to stay. At one point Phoebe is holding Frankenstein's monster with both hands. Then after he gets sucked into the vortex, she throws him her stuffed dog. How can she hold the monster with both hand and still keep the stuffed dog without it going into the vortex?
Correction: Earlier in the film, Phoebe is showed having the stuffed dog clipped to her belt. It could have easily been there before she tossed it to Frankenstein, keeping it from being sucked into the vortex.
Corrected entry: Sunlight kills vampires - this is an accepted "fact". Yet Dracula doesn't die when exposed to the sunlight when the plane doors open or when flying out of it later.
Correction: Depends on what myth you're talking about. The concept of vampires being destroyed by sunlight didn't appear in vampire lore until 1922's Nosferatu, and that was added by the filmmakers. Even in the original Dracula, he walked around in daylight. Never once in the movie does Dracula actually become wounded/hurt from sunlight; it's just something the Squad believes from what they see in movies. The filmmakers can alter whatever they like on the vampire myth as long as they don't break the rules they've set for themselves.
Corrected entry: Frankenstein's Monster is only listed in the end credits as Frankenstein. Frankenstein was the scientist who created the monster, not the monster itself.
Correction: True, in fact they point this out twice during the movie. But after they meet The Monster, Sean calls him Frank and at the end Phoebe is calling him Frankenstein when he is being sucked into limbo.
Corrected entry: Patrick's sister finished reading the manuscript and continued to hold the amulet while everyone looked for Limbo (later to find out she wasn't a virgin) but when Phoebe finished reading, the German man quickly threw it away so Limbo could open.
Corrected entry: The opening scenes with Van Helsing take place 100 years before the story begins, so 1887. The events of Dracula are accepted as having occurred in 1897. So either Van Helsing didn't get sucked into the portal, took part in the book's events, and hung around for 90 more years to pull Dracula into the vortex at the end of the film (unlikely). OR he did get sucked into the vortex, and came back out to drag Dracula in, but that means he could not have taken part in Bram Stoker's novel.
Correction: First: 4 out of 5 definitions listed for "virgin" refer to females. http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/virgin Second: In all of mythology and folklore, virgin always refers to females. The gods asked for a virgin to be sacrificed, the women/girls were gathered not the people that have never had sex. When some bit of folklore needs to be read aloud by a virgin, odds are they are asking for a girl.
Rlvlk
You would be correct in the correction, however that doesn't explain how Scary German Guy can summons the vortex. And yes I will say that because when Dracula was going after Phoebe, Scary German Guy was still reciting the text yet Phoebe wasn't repeating it, just whimpering. Yet the vortex still showed up.
lartaker1975
But Phoebe repeated the exact phrase the peasant girl did in the opening scene, those seem to be the key words that unlock the vortex.
I understand where you're coming from, but I'd disagree. Looked up a couple clips of the scene on YouTube, and they make a point of showing Phoebe repeating most of the words near-perfectly (at least as close to perfectly as a small child under distress could do) between whimpers. And I think you could make a compelling argument that even if she doesn't say them all 100% perfectly - say she's just barely whimpering some of them out between cries - it'd still count for the spell.
TedStixon
I disagree. I've watched this movie hundreds of times. All we hear is her whimpering because she's scared. No indication is given that she's still talking.
lartaker1975
I just looked up the scene again. They show her repeating the words perfectly and completing the spell after Frankenstein throws Dracula away from her. There's really only a few seconds in the entire scene when we hear her whimpering instead of saying the words perfectly. I still think it's within reason to argue that she did enough for the spell to work, but we'll just have to agree to disagree.
TedStixon