Monsters vs. Aliens Movie Review

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The world of the classic 1950s B-movie genre is explored in the new animated film Monsters vs. Aliens. From The Fly to Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, the film pays a loving homage to its source that monster movie lovers will have a blast watching this out-of-this-world adventure.

Reese Witherspoon provides the voice of Susan Murphy, a bride-to-be whos about to experience her worst nightmare. On her wedding day, she gets hit by a meteor full of outer space gunk. To make matters worse, as Susan is exchanging vows with her husband-to-be, Derek Dietl (the always funny Paul Rudd), she turns into a giant, 49-feet-11-inches tall, woman!

The military, headed by General W.R. Monger (Kiefer Sutherland), jumps into action and captures Susan and puts her into a secret government compound. Renamed Ginormica, Susan is introduced to a rabble-rousing group of monsters. Theres the brilliant but insect-headed Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D. (Hugh Laurie).

The half-ape, half-fish, The Missing Link (Will Arnett); the gelatinous and imperishable B.O.B. (short for benzoate-ostylezene-bicarbonate) voiced by Seth Rogen; and the 350-foot giant insect simply called Insectosaurus.

The monsters, except for Susan, have been in captivity for decades, but they will soon be enlisted by the government to help save the world from a megalomaniac alien named Gallaxhar (Rainn Wilson). He wants to erase Earth and start a new world in his own image. Its now up to Susan and her monster friends to defend Earth from the very unfriendly alien and his clones.

Directed by Rob Letterman (Shark Tale) and Conrad Vernon (Shrek 2), this DreamWorks Animation production is a splendid tale thats smart, witty, and has a lot of heart.

The movies charms rest squarely on the dynamics of the monsters and Witherspoon and company deliver. The film even has a great girl power message that is not sickeningly politically-correct.




But the laughs are plentiful as well. The filmmakers have a great sense of humor that they even hired Stephen Colbert to voice the Commander-in-Chief. Theres a funny scene involving the President when he meets the destructive robot by Gallaxhar for the first time. Upon playing the famous Close Encounters of the Third Kind Casio riff, he goes on and jams to the Beverly Hills Cop electronic theme Axel F. This, of course, angers the giant robot.

Like most animated films, Monsters vs. Aliens has its share of silly popular culture references (OMG!) but not as bad as Lettermans previous project, Shark Tale. The homage to the monster era is pop culture enough that the filmmakers wisely held back their allusions.

Presented in InTru 3-D technology, Monsters vs. Aliens is the first film in DreamWorks Animation history to be totally authored in the 3-D format. Im not a big fan of 3-D films because they give me headache, but InTru 3-D offers such clarity, beauty, and precision that my head did not ache at all!

Kids will go over the moon with Monsters vs. Aliens and like me, they will fall in love with B.O.B. The film may be a bit violent for the little ones but older kids and adults will enjoy this movie.

Monsters vs. Aliens is the first Hollywood feature film of 2009 that I truly enjoyed! Heck, I even unabashedly clapped at the end of the screening.

And for that, Monsters vs. Aliens gets 3 ½ monstrous kisses

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[ShadowMonkey123]

Great video, and all you retards commenting about this guys orientation can go fuck off.

Only one mistake in this: you got B.O.B.'s name wrong. It's 'Bicarbonate Ostylezene Benzoate', not 'Benzoate O. Bicarbonate'.

I'M A NERD, I'M SORRY!

[mdelar]

Thanks, and thanks for the correction :) have a great day! Manny

[LullabySong]

Just in case you didn't notice, this is a MOVIE REVIEW!. So you should be commenting about the movie, and not about Manny's orientation, which by the way, is none of our business. X( geez!

It's so inconvenient that ignorance is not painful.

[mdelar]

thanks so much, I was getting tired of answering the same question over and over again :) have a great weekend!

[sorarox]

technically she is 49 "11

[JReed1985]

Susan made the film for me, I love giantesses. Made me so sad for her I just wanted to comfort her when she was crying in the film.

[MrWambo1996]

Good movie !!!

How many kisses can movies get in your reviews ?

[AthyNa100]

@sorarox untill dr.cocroch used his mechine to try and make susan smaller

[lemonknowsstudio]

bad movie

[DeadVenom01]

49ft 11inches

[DarkmasterGiratina]

@legoackbar  thnx, I didnt know his name.... even though my mom watches House ever Monday

[legoackbar]

Hugh Lorie

[leishy2008]

dw about them manny, who cares about your sexuality you're probably straight anywayz nice talking to you bye:D

[leishy2008]

hated this movie! waste of time, really boring!

[elitadream]

'Gosh... O_O

Susan Murphy actually has the SAME face as Reese Witherspoon!! =D

I think I heard somewhere that they had got inspired from her physical aspect to do Genormica, justly. =D

That's a pretty cute detail considering the fact that she's the voice actress. ^_^