We learn via flashback that he rescued his morbidly obese wife from a freak show and pledged to love her and protect her from cruelty. She's a sweet girl who studies at Westbrook Preparatory School and is selling candies at homes before Halloween kicks in. The day of Halloween, she meets DJ and Chowder after they save her from almost getting herself killed by the Monster House. After some convincing, Jenny, DJ and Chowder decide to get inside the sapient house no matter the circumstances to unveil the mystery on Halloween night. He's a chubby guy with an immature, cowardly streak and less intelligence than DJ, but means well.
Friends / Allies
Chowder's father was mentioned to own a local pharmacy, while his mother is absent due to being with a personal fitness trainer, mentioned around the scene where Jenny first enters DJ's house. Jesse and Nancina Peterson are Chowder and Keith Peterson's unseen characters from the 2006 film, Monster House. A pizza deliverer who dedicates his free time to playing videogames at the pizzeria while the job is slow. Zee's boyfriend, the member of a band who are starting to make a name for themselves. Amblin Partners is a film and television production company, led by Steven Spielberg, that develops and produces film using the Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures banners and includes Amblin Television, a longtime leader in quality programming. The company’s investment partners include Reliance Entertainment, Entertainment One (eOne), Alibaba Pictures and Universal Pictures.
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Chowder turns back time because he has to have DJ have a love interest, so the time-line commences as if they rescued her. Trapped inside the house, the trio discover some of Nebbercracker's early life, from his army days, and his marriage to Constance, whose cement-coated remains they find in the basement, along with the toys Nebbercracker confiscated. The house attacks them once it finds out they are inside; Chowder is lured into a trap by his ball and ensnared by several bed springs, while Jenny is sucked up into a pipe, though DJ is able to evade capture. The three escape by attacking the house's uvula, which Chowder earlier mistook for the heart, causing it to puke them out. Chowder argues with DJ about their failed plan, and how they nearly died in the house, until Jenny tells them to stop fighting, saying that they're behaving like babies; DJ promptly states that they were thinking like babies. 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.
Role in the Film:
Nebbercracker then lashed out to them to leave, but his wrath was quickly changed into worries as he realized that kids would be approaching his house. He then starts to walk towards his house which somewhat became gentle to him. Later, the children in their Halloween costumes are lined up at the site of Nebbercracker house, where DJ, Chowder, and Jenny help him return all of the toys to their owners. At that moment, Nebbercracker returns home by ambulance, revealing that he's still alive, and that it was actually Constance's spirit that was controlling the house. Chowder and Jenny urge DJ not to go near the house again, but DJ tells Nebbercracker that he knows about his past anyway, leading him to explain everything. DJ and Chowder argue about their hatred of Mexican food and about Jenny while she calls her mom, but is not believed.
The boys spend the night watching the house as they think it might move again. DJ and Chowder both think that the house is haunted by Mr. Nebbercracker's disappearance, or it is experiencing poltergeist activity. Charles "Chowder" is the deuteragonist of Monster House, is a 12 year old boy, who is DJ's best friend. However, he can be resourceful, should the need arise; an example is when he pilots an excavator to save Nebbercracker from his house's wrath at the climax of the film.
Role in the Film
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.
That’s because the building and surrounding property are possessed by the spirit of Nebbercracker’s dead wife, who is about to unleash her rage on a parade of trick-or-treaters unless DJ, Chowder and their new friend, Jenny, can intervene. Thinking that they 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 once was once Nebbercracker's house and the excavator is eaten.
Chowder visits DJ a day before the main plot kicks in, and he, DJ and Jenny decide to get inside the sapient house no matter the circumstances to unveil the mystery on Halloween night. DJ always knew there was something strange about the forbidding old Nebbercracker house across the street. When the house becomes a living, breathing monster, DJ enlists his pals Chowder and Jenny to learn the secrets of what it is that somehow brought the house to life. Suddenly, they find themselves in a hair-raising battle with an unstoppable entity and together, they must save their neighborhood from total devastation.
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After DJ and Chowder save Jenny from getting eaten by Nebbercracker's house, Zee comes out of DJ's house telling the kids there's an angry Dad on the phone looking for the one called Chowder. Chowder is then seen talking in the phone to his Dad and he apologizes to him and excepts his apology. After Dad says good bye to his Dad and hangs up the phone, when DJ and Jenny come in DJ's room, Chowder picks up the phone again and pretends to hate his Dad saying, "Well Dad, why don't you kiss my hairy butt!?", and then asks DJ he's got any beer. Characters call each other “moron,” “loser,” “dork” and “porky.” Urination jokes employ the word “pee” several times, while Chowder (to impress his friends) insolently shouts into a dead phone, “Dad, why don’t you kiss my hairy butt!
Although, considering they've been working all night, they decide to do it, just for old times sake. DJ Walters is first seen spying on his elderly neighbor, Mr. Nebbercracker, who takes any item that lands in his yard. DJ's parents leave town for the weekend for a dentists convention, leaving him in the care of Goth babysitter Elizabeth "Zee". Charles "Chowder", DJ's best friend, loses his basketball on Nebbercracker's lawn. DJ tries to recover it but is caught by Nebbercracker, who rages at him before apparently suffering a heart attack and being taken away in an ambulance.
The house—having pulled itself from its foundation—chases the children, who fight back with construction equipment. And for the most part they talk and behave like real kids, too, or at least like characters drawn from the rich tradition of plucky, intellectually curious kiddie-lit heroes. DJ is descended from Encyclopedia Brown (perhaps by way of Jimmy Neutron, but never mind), and Jenny bears some temperamental resemblance to Harriet the Spy. I’m sure Chowder will remind you of someone in your fifth-grade class, wherever or whenever that was. The children, left to their own devices, must conquer the evil that, all but unnoticed, flourishes in their midst.
As DJ's parents are preparing to go to a dentist's convention, returning the following day in the evening, Chowder runs right into the back of their car, wearing a Halloween mask (which makes it hard for him to see). This was of course part of his master plan to cultivate his unstoppable empire. He and DJ proceed to play basketball while discussing their Halloween plans; DJ says that he probably doesn't plan on trick-or-treating due to feeling he's too old for that activity, much to Chowder's dismay. Chowder, in a fit of rage, bucked the ball straight at DJ's face and his ball ends up on Nebbercracker's lawn. Chowder shouts angry words as he storms over to Nebbercracker's lawn to get his beloved toy of choice. Nebbercracker comes out and yells at Chowder to get off his lawn, and runs toward Chowder.
Chowder formally had a crush on Jenny but remained friends with her.
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