[The voice cast] really delivered funny line after funny line throughout this.
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03/30/09
Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:21
Rotten:15
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:Mar 27, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $198,332,128
Synopsis: When a radioactive meteor hurtles into Susan Murphy (voiced by Reese Witherspoon) on her wedding day, she is transformed into a towering, platinum-haired giant. Taken away by the government and... [More]
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett, Seth Rogen
Director: Conrad Vernon, Rob Letterman
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Reviews for Monsters vs. Aliens
Top CriticMonsters Vs Aliens made me feel like a big kid again.
03/30/09
Top CriticAs 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.
03/30/09
Top CriticAt 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.
03/27/09
Top CriticI don't think there are any characters here that a child would love.
03/27/09
Top CriticHeavily touted as an industry breakthrough for 3-D, DreamWorks Animation's clunky and wildly unimaginative Monsters vs. Aliens really doesn't have a clue what to do with the technique.
03/27/09
Top CriticThe 3-D animation, occasional gross-out jokes and way-cool beasties and robots play to every 10-year-old, chronological or just in spirit.
03/27/09
Top CriticTrue, 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.
03/27/09
Top CriticShooting a chaotic action scene in an extra dimension definitely adds to the clutter, but does zilch to subtract from the tedium.
03/27/09
Top CriticThe 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.
03/27/09
Top CriticA big, silly spoof of an animated film, fast and funny and visually dazzling.
03/27/09
Top CriticAs willfully chock-full of the familiar as the animated feature is, it's also a hoot.
03/27/09
Top CriticThis film has hidden depths, especially for adults who mistakenly think Monsters vs. Aliens is only for kids.
03/27/09
Top CriticDirectors Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon push so hard for three-dimensionality that they basically have their animators putting sightlines before storylines.
03/27/09
Top CriticMvA 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?
03/26/09
Top CriticThree-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.
03/26/09
Top CriticThe super-duper-3-D-big-screen-Imax-deluxe extravaganza that is Monsters vs. Aliens has bells and whistles, superb technical sophistication and dazzling visual effects, sound, fury and Reese Witherspoon. What it doesn't have is heart.
03/26/09
Top Critic"Nice" is the adjective that seems to surface most in trying to pin down the film's most salient quality, which means that while the film is enjoyable enough, it is unlikely to become a classic for us, or a Shrek sort of franchise for DreamWorks.
03/26/09
Top CriticA highly competent, smartly engineered delivery system for the very clichés it pretends to subvert.
03/26/09
Top CriticAn animated funhouse that delivers on its title and ups its scary-comic impact if you see it in 3-D.
03/26/09
Top CriticLatest News for Monsters vs. Aliens
October 29, 2009:
DreamWorks Decides Against Monsters vs. Aliens Sequel 
Ending several weeks of speculation, DreamWorks has announced it won't be making a sequel to "Monsters vs. Aliens," despite a worldwide gross in excess of $380 million. More...
September 28, 2009:
RT on DVD: Monsters vs. Aliens, a Wizard, and Ghostbusters
This week on home video, we've got a bunch of '09 films hitting DVD shelves (Monsters vs. Aliens, Away We Go, The Brothers Bloom, and more), as well as a couple of fantasy... More...
July 30, 2009:
DreamWorks Mulls Monsters vs. Aliens Sequel
When is a hit not enough of a hit to justify a sequel? Perhaps when that hit is "Monsters vs. Aliens." More...
March 30, 2009:
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