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Monsters vs Aliens
2009 94 min United States of America PG 6+
★6.5
Animation, Family, Adventure, Science Fiction
Director: Rob Letterman, Conrad Vernon
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Description
When Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches. The military jumps into action and captures Susan, secreting her away to a covert government compound. She is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group of Monsters...
Budget:
$175M
US Gross:
$198.35M
Worldwide:
$381.51M
Starring
Reese Witherspoon
Actor
Rainn Wilson
Actor
Stephen Colbert
Actor
Awards
Saturn Awards 2010
— Best Animated Feature
Key opinion
Monsters vs. Aliens is generally regarded as a visually polished but narrative-thin piece of pop-culture entertainment. While many viewers appreciate the film's eccentric characters and humorous parodies of sci-fi tropes, others find the plot formulaic and lacking the emotional depth of industry benchmarks like Pixar.
| Production | High-quality animation and vivid character designs effectively bring the film's surreal world to life. | |
| Humor | The humor relies on a mix of absurd, self-aware character tropes that delight some viewers but feel stale or vulgar to others. | |
| Screenplay | The script prioritizes light-hearted parody over substance, resulting in a predictable and thin narrative. | |
| Acting | The ensemble of secondary monsters is consistently praised for their charm and originality, whereas the protagonist, Susan, is often criticized as flat or uninteresting. |