Recycling Americana through predigested pop culture makes Monster Trucks seem indebted to Amblin movies of the ’80s, by way of the boy-and-his-car riff on those same movies Michael Bay half-assedly performed in the first Transformers.

“Well, We no got anything else O' that sort,” he said, “but I did just take the bun from the kitchen, because I knew Pinkie would get hungersome.”

The film is bound to go great guns on video and fans of the early Travolta movies like Saturday Night Fever and Grease should be first in the queue.

He told me that the book is a good read.