Skylar Lewis (Olivia Holt) comes from a family of monster hunters and she doesn't know it. Her parents keeps her home for Halloween but she decides to cut the power to the home alarm. The problem is that power is also cut from the containment vessel and various monsters are released. Family friend Cobb reveals the family secret. With her scared friends Henry and Sadie, she must recapture Deimata who intends to possess her.This Disney movie is a showcase for some of its young stars and is aimed for their young fans. It's inferior in many ways. The writing, the adult actors, the special effects, and the plotting are all second rate in one way or another. Mostly, this relies on the movie's young stars. Olivia Holt is definitely a beauty although she may be better off playing the mean girl. Kerris Dorsey plays the best friend and she may have better dorky innocence to accentuate the leading role. Why not have the mean girl and the sweet girl team up to defeat the monsters? The plot doesn't really make any sense. I don't know why she would go to the party except that it needs to manufacture the situation. It does have the central premise about fear which is very appealing. One must grade on a curve for these kinds of movies.

This came out when I was 10 and I loved it so much, I am going to go re-watch it asap just for some memories of childhood. I would recommend this title to anyone who had children that are into defeating monsters or who are excited by futuristic devices, as this will fulfill their imagination as it definitely did to me. I loved this movie!

The Magic Kingdom came up short with this made for TV movie designed to showcase the talents of Olivia Holt and Luke Benward. Girl vs. Monster if you're over the age of 12 will have you laughing in all the wrong places.Not that Benward and Holt are bad, in fact they make this somewhat tolerable. Their best moments are in the musical interludes. There should have been more of them.Young Olivia typical teen with strict parents wants to go to a Halloween Party real bad, but she's got a curfew. The parents have reason to worry about her though. Unbeknownst to their daughter, they're professional monster hunters with equipment that the Ghostbusters got rid of of in a garage sale. When some monsters get loose on Halloween that's when Olivia discovers her roots.Now maybe if the folks who made Ghostbusters did this one it might have been a whole lot better. Girl vs. Monster is not the best product out of the Magic Kingdom.

Okay, I think Disney Channel Original Movies are enjoyable but this has been the worst year for Disney Channel movies. "Let It Shine" was unwatchable, this one is another example, and "Frenemies" was somewhat enjoyable but still not very good but unfortunately the best DCOM of 2012. Olivia Holt is pretty and talented and I like her in "Kickin It" but holy CRAP... why did she have to make this movie at all?. Olivia Holt is decent here as well as Luke Benward (good to see him again since I haven't seen him since "Minutemen"(AWESOME Disney Channel movie) and "Mostly Ghostly"(decently enjoyable movie)) but man he looks different. The acting except for Olivia Holt and Luke Benward which was overall not too bad but nothing spectacular was just HORRENDOUS... it's so bad, cheesy, and puke-worthy that it's not even funny. Good thing this movie didn't release in theaters because it would've been the biggest failure at the box office. Some of the mild sci-fi action was somewhat cool but it's hard to enjoy the film 1000 times more when it has acting that makes you wanna jump off a cliff, humor that is so horrible and so cheesy that you wanna knock yourself into a coma, and a storyline that could have potential to be good but had so many damn wrong things with it. Also, just like most of the Disney Channel movies... there is actually singing like what the hell??? NOT every movie should be singing, singing, singing, just because it's on Disney Channel. :/ It's predictable and they even made a good message about fear so unbelievably sloppy that it tastes like soiled and expired milk. I don't want to be harsh with this film considering the fact it's NOT a movie in theaters and a movie on television but we wanna a fun treat and this was most definitely NOT a fun treat. It's a stupid, predictable, atrocious piece of crap that you need to stay away from. Even though "Frenemies" was mediocre and not all that good, it definitely ain't bad and I rather watch that movie again then this film because at least that film had some kind of enjoyment. Just please everyone reading this review, watch any other Disney Channel Original Movie... just stay away from "Girl Vs. Monster", I'm begging you. :/