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Released
2016 · FILM

Monster Trucks

A high‑school mechanic discovers a giant underground creature hiding in his junkyard truck and must turn it into a monster‑truck hero while racing against ruthless hunters to reunite the beast with its family.

Two different worlds. One monster team.

Directed by
Runtime
104 min
ActionAdventureComedy

Synopsis

Tripp, a high school senior with a talent for building trucks, stumbles upon an extraordinary discovery: a gas-guzzling creature named Creech. To keep his mischievous new friend safe, Tripp conceals Creech under the hood of his latest project, transforming it into a super-powered Monster Truck. With a mutual love for speed, the unlikely duo sets out on an adventurous journey to reunite Creech with his family.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Conrad Buff IvShot by Don BurgessScored by David SardyDesigned by Andrew Menzies

Box Office

2016 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$64.5M

Budget$125.0M
Worldwide gross$64.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $33.4M 52% of worldwide · International: $31.1M (48%)

Also known as

  • Monster Trucksde
  • Monster Carsfr

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