Monsters vs. Aliens
by Admin on Dec.15, 2009, under New Movies
Description
When Susan Murphy is unexpectedly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches tall and is instantly labeled a “Monster” named Ginormica. The military jumps into action, and she is captured and held in a secret government compound filled with other “monsters” like herself. This ragtag group consists of the brilliant but insect-headed Dr. Cockroach, P.H.D.; the macho half-Ape-half-fish The Missing Link; the gelatinous an… More >>
December 16th, 2009 on 12:11 am
I took my 7yo girl and 5yo boy to see this movie. Read the other reviews here for the “story plot” etc. They covered it very well. I will say that both of my kids said afterwards that they liked it, but none of us had any laughs during the movie. I didn’t like it at all – really just missing humor and story line was lacking. Also worth noting that the whole thing was pushing the homosexual agenda – homo characters, comments and body language. It did seem to fly over my (young) kids heads (but they’re not aware of “gay” / such things anyway). So, if you swing that way / bat for the other team, you’ll love it – if not, don’t waste your money (forget the homo agenda…it just wasn’t a good film, wasn’t funny, and was pretty lame overall.
Rating: 1 / 5
December 16th, 2009 on 12:46 am
Monsters vs. Aliens gives Science-Fiction a BAD NAME!
Animation was doing just fine, until Dreamworks took over!
Down with Dreamworks, with their sick sense of humor they put in their GARBAGE!
Rating: 1 / 5
December 16th, 2009 on 3:42 am
Monsters vs Aliens is the exact opposite of Kung Fu Panda. It has no vision, it has no interesting characters, it doesn’t look good, and the heroine is quite irritating. It’s the kind of movie I wonder how it even got past the script stage. It all feels a bit… random, and not fleshed out at all.
Susan (voiced by Reese Witherspoon) is struck by a meteor on her wedding day to a cocky anchorman. Transformed into Ginormica, she is sealed off in Area 51 by the government, alongside four ‘monsters’ – a mad scientist turned cockroach, the missing link, a weird gigantic larva, not to mention the “Blob” himself – only his name is Bob. Their help is needed, however, when an alien emperor plans to invade earth.
The premise sounds promising but the execution is all off. Of all the ‘monsters’ they could think of, they go for those four? They have none of the depth or visual appeal of the characters in Kung Fu Panda. None of the characters appear to have gone through a character design stage at all; they all look quite crude and unimaginative. If this movie had a vision, I’m not seeing it. The plot is very thin and is almost solely held together by gags – which are admittedly quite hysterical at times. But jokes alone don’t make a movie.
While I enjoyed the movie a bit more than I thought I would (or should have), it left zero with me. As I watched this movie unfold in the cinema, I only found the 3D glasses I was wearing to be worth the ticket. It seems Dreamworks learned nothing from their previous film, Kung Fu Panda. What I love about that film is that it’s deep and full of substance, and just plain beautiful. I just don’t understand how Dreamworks could throw all that out the window. But even the dumbest script in the world can sometimes be saved by just being ‘cool’ – and this movie doesn’t even have enough substance for that. Nothing about this movie attracts me to it. Dreamworks have completely degraded their standard with Monsters vs Aliens, and I hope it’s only a temporary setback. I’d rather studios focusing on making movies with more substance than movies that come out of the screen.
Rating: 1 / 5
December 16th, 2009 on 6:19 am
Watchable, but nothing special.
The animation is excellent, but that’s now the standard.
Characters are okay, but again, nothing special.
Some amuzing moments, but no laugh-out-loud moments.
Some decent action scences, but nothing edge-of-your-seat.
There’s a lame, tired old “men are jerks – female empowerment” subplot that detracts from the movie. Too bad, would have been a better movie without it.
For a while now, there’s been a trend in live-action scifi and action movies to try to make up for a lack of a good writing/acting with flashy CG special effects.
Now it seems studios are trying to do the same with animated features by making them 3D.
Rating: 3 / 5
December 16th, 2009 on 8:30 am
The movie started out pretty good. However, nothing ever got deep enough with the character development. Again, this is a kids movie and obviously was meant for kids, can’t expect something really deep. I payed extra for a 3-D experience, but I still felt they didn’t utilize the 3-D aspect to it’s full potential. I’d sit there almost begging for more things to pop out of the screen, but rarely anything would happen. At the very least, adults will enjoy the pop culture references that almost every single child would not understand…I mean, how else would they keep the adults in the theater? The movie has good animation, but the storyline just seemed very mediocre to me.
Rating: 2 / 5