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Jennifer "Jenny" Bennett is the tritagonist of the 2006 computer-animated film Monster House. She is a student in Westbrook Preparatory School. She is voiced and mo-capped by Spencer Locke.

Role in the Film[]

Meeting DJ and Chowder[]

DJ and Chowder first spot her going to Nebbercracker's house, and they rush out to warn her, managing to save her before she is eaten by the house. After Zee leaves to go and find Bones, DJ (pretending to have puberty) tells her to have fun and safe driving. Jenny asks why DJ was acting like an idiot, but he says that he made the whole puberty thing up and the two introduce themselves then went inside DJ's house. The trio then introduce themselves and begin to talk about the house mocking them with its "Houseness". While Jenny speaks to her mom on the phone, DJ and Chowder talk about hating Mexican food and "calling dibs on a girl". The trio then see a dog starting to the griddy and he was named Kevin starting to pee on Nebbercracker's lawn. The house then grabs Kevin with its carpet (the tongue) and eats him.

Jenny decides to call for the police, but when police officers Landers and Lester arrive, they do not believe their story, as the house does not react to the kids' teasing while the cops are there. The three realize that no one is going to believe their experience with the house and decided to keep it to themselves.

The trio seek advice from Reginald "Skull" Skulinski, a strange video game addict working in a pizza parlor who is claimed to be an expert on the supernatural. They learn that the house is a "domus mactabilis" (Latin for "deadly home"); a monstrous being created when a human soul merges with a structure. They assume the house is possesed by Nebbercracker's soul. The only way to kill the house is to destroy its source of life; the heart. They conclude that the heart must be the furnace, as DJ realizes that the chimney has been smoking since Nebbercracker died.

Planning to Kill the House[]

As they make a plan to kill the house, Chowder provides a dummy filled with cold medicine that should cause the house to sleep long enough for them to douse the furnace. The plan almost succeeds, but Officers Landers and Lester arrive and thwart it. Landers discovers the cold medicine inside the dummy, which Chowder took from his father's pharmacy, and arrests them. The cops wrongfully place the trio in the police car while they examine the house. The house eats Landers, Lister, and the car. DJ, Chowder, and Jenny escape the car but are trapped in the house.

Exploring the House[]

The house falls asleep and they begin exploring. They make a plan to find the heart and put out the fire while Chowder asks if there is more options. Which DJ agrees; wait and do nothing until the house finds out where they are and it will eat them, Chowder disagrees with that idea and goes on with the plan to find the heart and put the fire out. DJ finds binoculars on the wall near a small hatch to the door and he realizes that Nebbercracker has been watching him the whole time while he was trying to get Chowder's ball back. Jenny then shows DJ a set of photos with Nebbercracker and his late wife, then DJ says to Jenny that he used to have a wife, but he fattened her up and ate her, much to Jenny's disgust.

While exploring, Chowder mistakes the chandelier (the uvula) for the heart, they shoot which causes the house to vomit a little bit of green slime water outside and a search light which is the monster's eye appears to find any intruders inside the house's interior. Jenny explains to Chowder that the chandelier is the uvula and it stimulates the gag reflex and everyone has a uvula. The house then dozes off again and the search light disappears.

DJ, Chowder and Jenny then fall into the basement and find an enormous collection of toys accumulated from Nebbercracker's lawn, as well as a locked cage that DJ opens with a key he found on the lawn. They find the body of Constance the Giantess, Nebbercracker's wife, encased in cement. They begin to find out why Nebbercracker did this to his wife until DJ accidentally falls onto the body and screams in terror as it cracks open to reveal a skeleton. The house realizes they are inside and begins attacking them. As Jenny and Chowder were captured by springs and snake-like pipes, DJ walks up the basement stairs until the stairs start to attack him as he climbs up to the first floor. Jenny forced the house to vomit them outside by grabbing onto its uvula. As DJ and Chowder argue about their ideas, and that Chowder risked his life for DJ for stealing drugs for him and DJ says that it was Chowders idea to make DJ retrieve Chowder's ball back and DJ then hastily heads for home. As he does, he nearly gets run over by an ambulance hijacked by Nebbercracker and the trio are surprised to see that arrives home alive, but with his arm in a sling.

Nebbercracker then lashes them out to leave, but his wrath was quickly changed into worries as he realized that kids would be approaching his house. He then starts walking towards his house which somewhat became gentle to him. By this point, DJ learned that all this time, the house was possessed by Constance's spirit.

Final Fight[]

Against his friends' protests, DJ tries to talk some sense with Nebbercracker about the truth behind his wrathful and suspicious behavior. Nebbercracker was at first angry after he has discovered the truth, but eventually relents and tells them their story. All of his bad deeds on the children were merely ruse to keep them away from his house after the latter's accidental murder by bullies and because of it, he was forced to pretend to be a child hater so Constance won't be able to destroy everything on her path.

DJ tells Nebbercracker it is time to let Constance go, but she overhears. The house breaks free from its foundation, with trees to support it (the arms), and chases the group to a nearby construction site. As the house tries to eat Nebbercracker, Chowder fights the house off with an excavator, causing it to fall into a pit.

DJ is given the dynamite, and he and Jenny get accidentally thrown into the huge pit where a lake has been drained. Chowder managed to bring the house down into the pit where it crumbled to pieces. Thinking that they have won, they cheered until the house starts to reconstruct itself by making it a deformed monstrosity. DJ and Jenny then climb to the top of a crane while Chowder distracts house, and the excavator is eaten. When DJ and Jenny reach the crane's arm, DJ was very scared to do it, but Jenny tells him that he can and kisses him with encouragement, giving him the confidence to do so. DJ then throws the dynamite into the chimney, blowing up the house. The trio see Nebbercracker dancing with Constance's spirit before she fades away.

DJ apologizes to Nebbercracker for the loss of his house and wife, but Nebbercracker thanks DJ and the kids for freeing him and Constance after 45 years of being trapped. That night, children in their Halloween costumes are all lined up at the remains of Nebbercracker's house, where DJ, Chowder, and Jenny help him return all of the toys to their owners, including Eliza's tricycle. Jenny's mother Mrs. Bennett picks her up and hugs DJ and Chowder before leaving.

Appearance[]

Jenny has ginger hair done up into braided pigtails with red ribbons and green eyes. In the beginning of the film, she is wearing her Westbrook school uniform coat. In the rest of the film, she removes her coat to reveal a white button-up shirt with a red bowtie. She also wears a jumper skirt, white knee socks and black Mary Jane shoes. She has permanent scorch burns/marks on her face and body due to the battle.

Personality[]

Jenny Bennett is an intelligent girl as she is able to use her intellect to find out what house furniture has been turned into human like things such as the carpet (tongue), the chandelier (uvula) and the floorboards that break out from the top and the bottom (teeth). Jenny at first didn't like DJ or Chowder but she soon warmed up to them and became friends with them.

Jenny was worried for DJ as she thought he was killed when he fell down into the house's basement and when he was nearly killed by a hijacked ambulance (which had Nebbercracker aboard). She has a romantic, soft side as she managed to convince DJ to climb onto the crane's arm by kissing him passionately.

Other appearances[]

Video Game[]

Jenny is one of the three main playable characters in the video game based on the film, alongside DJ and Chowder.

At the start of the game, Jenny and Chowder are separated from DJ, with Chowder ending up in the depths of the house, while Jenny finds herself in the attic and after jumping across a stack of crates that swift away, she tries to get back by going through the air vents, but she gets trapped by a blockade of pipes.

DJ later finds Jenny trapped in the vents while exploring the second floor; after rotating the room they are in, he tries to free her, to no avail, requiring Jenny to find another way out.

Jenny escapes from the vents and finds herself dealing with a living TV, and a huge Constance doll controlling a chandelier, the game’s first boss. Afterwards, Jenny makes her way to the top floor, where she deals with a live stove, uses a train set to reveal a secret passageway, and fixes a dumbwaiter, which she uses to make her way to the basement.

Exploring the bowels of the house, Jenny ends up fighting off more possessed furniture, and meets up with DJ. The two ultimately locate Chowder and encounter the remains of Constance, then attempt to extinguish the furnace, without success, after which, giant pipes capture each of them. Jenny then traverses the section Chowder recently explored, where she gets sucked up by another pipe.

She then explores the second-floor corridor again, eventually reuniting with DJ and Chowder at the Foyer, where Chowder is caught by the house’s tongue; DJ, also on the second floor, grabs his hand, and Jenny jumps onto the uvula, causing it to fall down the throat.

After being spat out by the house, DJ, Chowder, and Jenny are chased by the rampant abode. At a construction site, DJ and Jenny head for a nearby crane while Chowder takes control of an excavator and battles the house, after which, DJ uses the crane to throw a dynamite down the house’s chimney, blowing it up. Jenny and Chowder then congratulate DJ as he hangs from the crane.

In other languages[]

Language Name Voice actor(s)
French Jenny Bennett Camille Donda
German Jenny Bennett Victoria Frenz
Italian Jenny Bennett Letizia Ciampa
Japanese ジェニーベネット (Jenībenetto) Satomi Ishihara
Portuguese Jenny Bennet Dani Calabresa
Spanish Jenny Bennett Ximena Sariñana

Quotes[]

Film[]

  • "Boo! Trick-or-treat!"
  • "Good morning Mamm, you've just witnessed a simulation of what you'll face this evening, study shows that households that run out of candy, are 55% more likely to be, tepid. To help avert this tragedy, I'm here selling Halloween Candy, for my school, West Brook Prep."
  • "Just trying ta, get a head start on life and secure successful future."
  • "Thank you for the advice, I'll be sure to make a note of it, but back to business, eggs, shaving cream, toilet paper. Without candy, I'm afraid your house is a bull's-eye with shingles."
  • "Babysitter?"
  • "Okay, let's cut the crap. Maybe the parents you work for left you $40 in emergency money."
  • "Maybe you give me 20, I write a receipt for 30 you pocket 10."
  • "One bag, and I toss in a licorice whip."
  • "Are you guys mentally challenged? If you are, I'm certified to teach you baseball.
  • "You wanna tell me what's going on?"
  • "Jenny Bennett, two-term class president at West Brook Prep."
  • "It's a girl school."
  • "I hate Mexican food."
  • "May I please use your phone?"
  • "Umm... Is this pee? Because if it is, that's really gross!"
  • "May I please speak with Allison? Her daughter, thank you."
  • "She didn't believe me."
  • "Okay. Normally I don’t spend time with guys like you. But a house just tried to eat me, so... you've got one hour."
  • "Officer, we have reason to believe there is a dangerous creature inside that house."
  • "Smart house."
  • "Who's they?"
  • "Fine so, how long is he gonna keep playing?"
  • "Well, if he's not coming out of the Game Zone, then we are going in."
  • "So, we need to strike at the heart."
  • "The furnace, the furnace is the heart. If we wanna put out the fire, were gonna have to go inside."
  • "I say it's worth a shot."
  • "*sighs* You've gonna be kidding me!"
  • "Okay, the house is a monster!"
  • "Just, just try to stay calm okay, will be alright if we just stay calm."
  • "Listen, sounds like it's sleeping."
  • "DJ, did you ever see a wife?"
  • "Ewww!"
  • "That's not the heart!"
  • "Well, if those are the teeth, and that's the tongue, then that must be the uvula."
  • "What!? No, it stimulates the gag reflex, everyone has a uvula."
  • "Chowder, knock it off."
  • "Chowder, it's a toy."
  • "Where's DJ?"
  • "This must be where Nebbercracker kept his stash."
  • "Come on DJ, we don't have time for this."
  • "Look at all this stuff. But why would he build her a shrine if he murdered her?"
  • "It's awake!"
  • "The uvula!"
  • "The uvula, natures emergency exit."
  • "You guys! Stop fighting! You're acting like babies."
  • "How'd you know to drive this thing!?"
  • "I'm not sure."
  • "DJ, get rid of that thing!"
  • "DJ, look!"
  • "Yes, you can."
  • "DJ, hurry!"
  • "Tricycle."
  • "There's my mom."
  • "So, um... We should hang out again... soon."
  • "Good luck with the puberty."

Video Game[]

  • "Shh! I don't think it knows we're still alive."
  • "Um, you guys."
  • "Guess the maid has a day off."
  • "DJ! Over here!"
  • "The same thing you'd be doing if you were up here. Looking for a way to not be up here."
  • "Yeah, I tried pushing on it, but I hadn't thought of pulling. Thanks for exhausting all possibilities."
  • "Sorry, I get sarcastic when I'm frightened. Look, I better try to find another way."
  • "Hello?"
  • "The bigger they are the... harder it is to make them fall."
  • "What was that?"
  • "DJ, are you alright?"
  • "What's that?"
  • "Fine, where's the exit?"
  • "Chowder!"
  • "I'm not surprised at all."
  • "Look!"
  • "After she died, her spirit went to the house she loved, and she attacks anyone who comes near her."
  • "It's not working!"
  • "Oh boy! Guys?..."
  • "The house is getting closer!"

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • In the early storyboard of the film, Jenny alongside DJ and Chowder was originally going to go to a library to study about the house, but it was cut for unknown reasons.
  • In another concept art shown on the DVD, Jenny is seen making a slingshot while sitting in the back of the car while DJ watches.
  • In the Nintendo DS version of the movie, Jenny had two water guns instead of one.
  • It is unknown what her mother looks like since her voice was only heard.
  • Jenny and Constance are the only two main female characters to appear in the movie and game.
  • Originally, Jenny was the one who was supposed to come nose to nose with Constance in her cement tomb. For some unknown reason, this was changed to DJ.


Characters
Children: DJ Chowder Jenny Eliza
Adults: Mr. Walters Elena Walters Zee Bones Skull Horace Constance Officer Landers Officer Lister
Animals: Kevin
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