Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 209
Fresh: 150 | Rotten: 59
Though it doesn't approach the depth of the best animated films, Monsters Vs. Aliens has enough humor and special effects to entertain moviegoers of all ages.
Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 43
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 17
Though it doesn't approach the depth of the best animated films, Monsters Vs. Aliens has enough humor and special effects to entertain moviegoers of all ages.
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When human-hating aliens disrupt earthbound cable-television signals, it's up to a monster-hunting superhero to take out the pesky extraterrestrials and ensure that television viewers are not deprived in this animated adaptation of the popular comic-book series. The DreamWorks Animation release is being helmed by Shrek 2 director Conrad Vernon and Shark Tale's Rob Letterman. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Cast
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Reese Witherspoon
Susan Murphy/Ginormica -
Hugh Laurie
Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. -
Seth Rogen
B.O.B. -
Will Arnett
The Missing Link -
Kiefer Sutherland
General W.R. Monger -
Stephen Colbert
The President -
Rainn Wilson
Galaxhar -
Paul Rudd
Derek Dietl -
Julie White
Wendy Murphy -
Jeffrey Tambor
Carl Murphy -
Amy Poehler
computer -
Ed Helms
News Reporter -
Renée Zellweger
Katie -
John Krasinski
Cuthbert -
Jimmy Kimmel
Insectosaurus (uncredit... -
Lisa Stewart
Bridesmaid Candy
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Monsters vs Aliens is skilfully animated and spasmodically funny, but you get the impression the film's seven (!) writers ran out of ideas two-thirds of the way through.
Top Critic[The voice cast] really delivered funny line after funny line throughout this.
Monsters Vs Aliens made me feel like a big kid again.
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.
It's an affectionate, fairly funny riff on 1950s sci-fi movies, which often featured aliens, sometimes in the form of gelatinous glop, trying to take over Earth before earthlings, usually of the military variety, save the day.
At the altar... Susan sprouts to just under 50 feet tall, taking out the church roof and steeple in the process. Next time, raise higher the roof beam, carpenters.
A typically slick effort from DreamWorks Animation...
As a child who loathed the wholesomeness of Disney and wholeheartedly embraced the madcap antics of Bugs Bunny, Wile E. Coyote and Daffy Duck this film was perfect for me.
A Mad Magazine style action adventure film...
The film has some serious problems, the first being - and yes, I feel ridiculous for even attributing this complaint to a film with the above title - a completely pat narrative that seriously lacks character development
Me quedé con hambre de más y es que siento que Dreamworks, fuera del verde Shrek, no ha encontrado la fórmula para darle verdadera batalla a Disney Pixar.
Inked more by its influences than originality, "Monsters" gets exhaustive with its rapid-fire references. That said, if this works as a shiny primer to one day introduce children to classic sci-fi, satire, fantasy and anime, well, more power to it.
Not as wonderful as Kung Fu Panda, Monsters vs. Aliens is the next best thing that DreamWorks Animation has produced.
Normally we'd say that DVD would be the second best place to see Monsters vs. Aliens, but that is no longer the case . . .
The movie references are fun, but...the plot and characters are paper thin. (Blu-ray Edition)
...for kids Monsters vs. Aliens has a lot of color and action, and it's not too scary. Fair enough. As long as you're a kid.
A wholesome family flick that's fun for kids from 4 to 104!
A happy, family-friendly movie without a mean bone in its mutated body, even though it features a giant killer robot machine and its four-eyed alien squid master, a megalomaniac who's out to kill and/or enslave all of humanity.
The real reason to see this movie is the stunning 3-D craftsmanship.
Audience Reviews for Monsters vs. Aliens
I dont know many have some troubles with this Movie, but I think it was friggin Funny specially the Bit when the "President of United States" playing that Beverly Hill Sound. Some scenes were spoofed from great Alien Classics, what was actually much funnier, there is what I dont understand why many Folks have troubles with it. It was another kind of "Alien" Animation.
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- General W.R. Monger: Wait! Don't press that button!
- The President: Why?
- General W.R. Monger: It will send out all of are nucular weapons!
- The President: Then what button gives me a latte.
- General W.R. Monger: That would be the one on the left.
- The President: What idiot designed this!
- General W.R. Monger: You did sir.
- The President: Okay, than go fire some one!
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- The President: Can someone put me on code brown because I need to change my pants!
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- The Missing Link: Don't scare Insectosaurous, he's going to pee himself, then we all going to be in trouble!
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- Susan Murphy/Ginormica: I can't fight that thing! I never... I can't even... [gasping] I'm hyperventilating... Does anybody have a giant paper bag?
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- B.O.B.: Wait, is it the whole 'there isn't a jar in the world I can't open' thing again? Did you find a jar you couldn't open? Did it have pickles in it? Where is the giant jar of pickles!?
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- Derek Dietl: Wow, you're...glowing....
- Susan Murphy/Ginormica: Thank You!
- Derek Dietl: No Susan, you're like really glowing...YOU'RE GREEN!
- Susan Murphy/Ginormica: [looks at hand]
- Susan Murphy/Ginormica: [GASP] Oh No! [GROAN] Derek!
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Foreign Titles
- Monstres contre Aliens (FR)
- Monstruos contra alienígenas (ES)
Luckily it morphs into another brilliant Dreamworks animated flick, at first the characters don't really appeal and they kinda look a bit lame but as the film progresses you really dig them and the idea behind their looks. They have all been crafted from the classic black n white horror genre ranks and at a first glance I didn't like them but as the film moves forward you do notice how cool they are.
'B.O.B' is obviously a take on the Blob creature probably from the Steve McQueen flick, 'Link' is a kind of 'Creature from the Black Lagoon' and probably the best of the monsters with his dialog and good looking cgi on his scales (am I the only one who thinks Michael Keaton with his wild n wacky 'Beetlejuice' voice would have been perfect for this character?).
'Dr Cockroach' was a twist on ' The Fly' monster and for me the weakest monster in the gang, 'Gallaxhar' is the alien enemy and a nice combination of the classic 50's/60's UFO invasion flicks (think 'Mars Attacks' too) and finally 'Insectosaurus' is taken from the Jap monster mash films and 'Godzilla'.
The film isn't THAT funny at the start or for the first 30min really, it comes alive after the gang fights the giant robot to be honest, before then its a little weak. The film does offer allot of little funny moments from then on eg. 'B.O.B' waving his jello at 'Derek' at the end and when he tries to chat the jello up earlier on LOL!
Rainn Wilson makes the alien enemy much better than I thought at first with some cracking little remarks here and there.....'Quadrant 4? lame', and you gotta laugh at the US president and the 'Dr Strangelove' type boardroom scenes hehe.
Its a film of two halves really, the beginning is weak but the latter half is great fun, as said it all perks up once they fight the giant robot in SF, it whips along with no time for rest and you really enjoy it. Kudos to Dreamworks for the look of the film which is really really nice, its amazing what they can do these days, this film still keeps me in the Dreamworks camp overall. Pixar still hold the ultimate hand with 'Toy Story' but this was really good, Dreamworks are closing the gap slowly.