Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)
Hugh Laurie, Kiefer Sutherland, Paul Rudd
When a meteorite from outer space hits a young girl and turns her into a giant monster, she is taken to a secret government compound where she meets a ragtag group of monsters also rounded up over the years.
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PG, 1 hr. 34 min.
Directed by:
Conrad Vernon,
Rob Letterman
Release Date: Mar 27, 2009
DVD Release Date: Sep 29, 2009
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Actually I really liked this movie,it was alot better then I thought it was gonna be
As an advocate of recycling, I really ought to have enjoyed this movie
Very funny, using its 50s b-movie roots to its advantage. The characters are good, the comedy is funny, and the animation is crisp.
Loved It! watched it with tha family and it was great got it on blue ray and have watched it a few times now, great story line & cast & lots of LOL moments xxxx great for kids & older ones xxxx :)
This film was just ok. It started off fairly slow but picked up steam once the monsters got out in the open. It was a fairly fun movie, but I didn't laugh as much as I was hoping. It did have some decent references to the old monster movies from t... (read more) This film was just ok. It started off fairly slow but picked up steam once the monsters got out in the open. It was a fairly fun movie, but I didn't laugh as much as I was hoping. It did have some decent references to the old monster movies from the 1950s. The few laughs that I did get came from Stephen Colbert's president (even though he should have been funnier) and Seth Rogen's BOB. I thought all of the voice actor choices were spot on and worked. Overall a good animated movie that may have been better in 3D and even though Dreamworks have made some ok animated films, this like others, cannot even compare to Pixar films.
"Once again, a UFO has landed in America, the only country UFOs ever seem to land in."
I had so much fun watching this movie.
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This Easter digimation romp is big on action and slapstick, small on charm, tiny on wit and endurability; unless you are nine, when anything goes.full review
As I took off my gray-lensed 3-D spectacles at the end of Monsters vs. Aliens, I felt not so much immersed as fuzzy with exhaustion.full review
I don't think there are any characters here that a child would love.full review
In terms of generating pure, Monstrous laughs this is the year's funniest comedy so far - animated OR live action.full review
True, the story doesn't amount to much, but the plot tends to take a back seat when you've got a not-quite-50-foot version of Reese Witherspoon duking it out with a mighty alien robot alongside the Golden Gate Bridge.full review
The cool stuff -- like 3-D and collapsing bridges -- may get filmmakers halfway there, but to make it all the way home, they need the usual movie elements, like a good story and vivid characters, and here Monsters vs. Aliens comes up short.full review
MvA isn't, and isn't pretending to be, as ambitious a project as Pixar's almost universally lauded Wall-E was. But does it have to feel like something that's just rolled off a conveyor belt, made according to an exacting but dull set of specification... (read more) MvA isn't, and isn't pretending to be, as ambitious a project as Pixar's almost universally lauded Wall-E was. But does it have to feel like something that's just rolled off a conveyor belt, made according to an exacting but dull set of specifications?full review
Three-dimensional sequences, whether animated or live action, can feel more gimmicky than integral to the tale. Happily, such is not the case with the entertaining Monsters vs. Aliens.full review
A highly competent, smartly engineered delivery system for the very clichés it pretends to subvert.full review
An animated funhouse that delivers on its title and ups its scary-comic impact if you see it in 3-D.full review
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