Planet 51 (2009)
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Critic Consensus: 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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Cast
as Chuck Baker
as Neera
as Lem
as Skiff
as General Grawl
as Professor Kipple
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Critic Reviews for Planet 51
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There's enough of a storyline here to keep younger space cadets moderately settled.
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.
This sharp-looking but unimaginative adventure hasn't the wit of similar kiddie flicks.
Audience Reviews for Planet 51
Its ok but there are a lot better animated movies out there. The star part is the alien type dog thing.
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The whole storyline is something everyone will know they have seen before. Some jokes were funny, others were embarassing and it treads too much into E.T territory Resultingly, Planet 51 isn't good family entertainment. The animation is pretty good but the characters are either cardboard cut out or borrowed from other better films.
Super Reviewer
Aside from some impressive animation and a few chuckles here and there...a mostly forgettable film. For some reason the fact that the "aliens" looked like gummi sea monkeys, really bothered me. The animation was so good they could have really been more creative with them. But I did love the (Giger inspired) ALIEN "dog".
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Planet 51 Quotes
| Professor Kipple: | This is oviesly alien writing....mmm....it says surrender or die and this is a list of surrender turns. |
| 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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