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Animation /
Action /
Sci-Fi
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Amy Poehler,
Julie White,
Reese Witherspoon,
Seth Rogen,
Hugh Laurie,
Will Arnett,
Kiefer Sutherland,
Rainn Wilson,
Stephen Colbert,
Paul Rudd,
Jeffrey Tambor,
Ed Helms,
Renée Zellweger,
John Krasinski,
Sean Bishop
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(7/10)717
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When a meteorite from outer space hits a young California woman named Susan Murphy and turns her into a giant horror, she is taken to a covert authority compound where she meets a ragtag assortment of monsters also rounded up during the years. As a model resort, under the guidance of Widespread W.R. Monger, on a desperate harmony from The President, the motley band of Monsters is called into action to joust the aliens and put away the world from menacing end!
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Monsters vs. Aliens
A team of oddballs, including a young woman accidentally transformed into a giant, must fight an extra-terrestrial threat in DreamWorks' CGI family movie
DreamWorks Animation (Shrek, Madagascar) is once more onto something with Monsters Vs Aliens. The combination of 21st century CGI filmmaking with 1950s science fiction is a no-brainer, but the fact that Monsters Vs Aliens also has plenty of novel 3D, a fun-if-familiar storyline and a great cast makes for a winning family film.
In the first few minutes alone we've floated through Saturn-like planetary rings, followed a meteor hurtling through space and been given a 'duck' moment when a toy ball flies out of the screen. The gimmickry settles down, however, when the story kicks in.
The heroine is Sus...
Monsters vs Aliens
Provided you watch this film in 3d, you'll love it's stunning scenes & graphics. More importantly it will take you mind off the fact that there is very little story and no new humour here at all. If you've ever seen a Dreamworks animated film before then there is nothing new here at all. Certainly nothing in the way of jokes or visual humour, I wonder if they've finally run out of fresh ideas? The 3d works superbly well though & is worth seeing for that alone.
Monsters vs. Aliens
Betsy SharkeyWhat does it say about the current state of cinema that Monsters vs. Aliens, animated in a '50s retro style, albeit with an assist from the latest in 3-D technology, and aimed roughly at the under-12 set, turns out to be the movie making one of the strongest statements about female empowerment out there today?
It is Reese Witherspoon's Susan, a small-town Modesto girl with modest dreams, who ultimately crashes right through the glass ceiling of the old-boys-network of monsters -- both metaphorically and literally, all five stories of her -- to lead a band of mutant brothers on a mission to save the world.
The film also creates one of the most endearing characters around, and frankly one of the best roles for slacker guys this year, in Seth R...
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