Planet 51 (2009)
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 106
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 83
Planet 51 squanders an interesting premise with an overly familiar storyline, stock characters, and humor that alternates between curious and potentially offensive.
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Critic Reviews: 25
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 19
Planet 51 squanders an interesting premise with an overly familiar storyline, stock characters, and humor that alternates between curious and potentially offensive.
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An American astronaut believing himself to be the first person ever to set foot on Planet 51 gets the shock of his life in this animated adventure comedy featuring the voices of Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, John Cleese, and Gary Oldman. Captain Charles "Chuck" Baker (voice of Johnson) was on a mission to boldly go where no man had gone before, a remote celestial body dubbed Planet 51. The scientific community had surmised that Planet 51 was uninhabited, so when Captain Baker steps out of his
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Cast
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
Chuck Baker -
Jessica Biel
Neera -
Justin Long
Lem -
Seann William Scott
Skiff -
Gary Oldman
General Grawl -
John Cleese
Professor Kipple -
Freddie Benedict
Eckle -
Alan Marriott
Glar -
Mathew Horne
Vesklin -
James Corden
Vernkot
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All Critics (107) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (83) | DVD (4)
There's enough of a storyline here to keep younger space cadets moderately settled.
Top CriticIt's just an excuse for classic-cinema shout-outs and roller-coaster-like commotion.
This has the directionless, recycled feel of a script by committee.
An uninspired computer-animated feature that may satisfy undiscriminating pipsqueaks and nearly no one else, Planet 51 is a low-IQ E.T. in reverse...
Young children and adults with high pain thresholds will enjoy the movie during its brief pause on the way to your On Demand menu.
The whole thing is just terrible.
A poorly animated, poorly conceived, utterly predictable science fiction adventure without a single shred of originality.
"A poorly conceived comedy spotlighting a collection of anal-centric humor that's about as appealing as baseball bat to the face."
In terms of animation, Planet 51 is out of this world. Then there's the story and the characters, which are about as dull as a dirty penny.
A short-sighted assembly of sci-fi references and scatalogical humor that should nonetheless placate undemanding tots ... for ninety minutes or so.
Nothing really gels and Planet 51 just comes across as shrill, rushed and unfunny.
While certainly diverting, its overly frantic attempts at humour, pointless homages to other films and lack of charm mean it falls some way short. It's not terrible but neither is it memorable.
A charming spoof of cold-war alien paranoia, this is visually inventive and full of action, but could do with more humour.
A thin joke becomes attenuated to breaking point.
Well and truly aimed at kids, Planet 51 is a film they will thoroughly enjoy yet which any accompanying adult will have lots of laughs in too.
Just how much of this will be appreciated by children is questionable, but the film is clearly intended to keep them happy with lashings of colour, movement and cheesy jokes while older, diehard geeks can enjoy all the reference spotting.
Funny and well designed, but doesn't live up to potential due to uninspired dialogue and heavy hand of marketing.
The screenplay aims wide for every snappy, pop-culture joke that can possibly be cracked. But the viewer's funnybone remains an elusive target.
Little kids who've never seen this story before might get a kick out of it and its bold colours. Parents will be yawning and looking at their watches. At least G-Force dared you to hate it; this just dares you to stay awake.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say Planet 51 was written by a bunch of monkeys...who were trapped in a room with some typewriters. Surprisingly, the works of Shakespeare are the only texts they haven't blatantly ripped off.
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- Professor Kipple: This is oviesly alien writing.... mmm.... it says surrender or die and this is a list of surrender turns.
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