A world-killing asteroid plunges toward the Earth, dooming all life on our little blue-green planet. But humanity bands together and does what we do best: wreck stuff. The asteroid is destroyed by waves of warheads. Crisis averted!
Well, it emerges, not so much. Fallout from the asteroid debris mutates cold-blooded animals across the globe, transforming them into massive monsters that kill off billions of squishy humans. The few survivors are those who made it to underground shelters.
Joel Dawson is one such survivor. That's the good news. The bad news is pretty much everything else. Joel was separated from his girlfriend Aimee during the evacuation, and although she survived, Aimee is in another settlement, beyond miles of deadly, monster-filled wilderness. This leaves Joel as the only single person in his community. Which is frustrating. Worse still, Joel has a tendency to freeze in dangerous situations, which means he feels pretty much useless. The fact that everyone else is very understanding of his limitations does not help him feel better, quite the opposite.
After one too many self-humiliating moments over his inability to cope with danger, Joel decides to quit his settlement and cross the wilderness to Aimee. Can he somehow bumble his way to her, despite the deadly monsters roaming across every mile between them, or will be get eaten in the first 30 seconds?
Well, it probably won't be the latter: that would make for a very short film indeed. But it safe to say that Joel's journey won't be quite what he expects it to be.
Love and Monsters is a mildly comedic adventure story with a good cast. It's not especially innovative in what it does, but it executes its story of discovery (in multiple senses of the word) quite well and manages to squeeze in both a few laughs and a couple of touching moments during its course.
If the premise sounds like something you'd enjoy, this is worth a watch.
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