Machine-made cartoon from DreamWorks, credited to co-directors Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon. It posits a secret government quarantine of benign monsters modelled on such Fifties archetypes as the Blob, the four-fifths-human Fly (except now a Cockroach), Mothra, the 50-Foot Woman (a girl-power placebo), and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. None of the figures, human or non-, merits a second glance as a work of graphic art. And the insufferable insouciance of the premise, fully and accurately summed up in the title, hides behind a smokescreen of computer wizardry, 3-D diversion, jaded in-jokes, capitalist confidence. Hides, but not successfully. With the voices of Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen, Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett, Kiefer Sutherland. (2009) — Duncan Shepherd
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I was a little disappointed. I thought maybe it would be funnier but it ended up being a movie for kids. I’m sure they will like it, especially with the 3-D visual effects. I do have to give credit to the animation team though. Some scenes looked so real it felt like I was watching a live action film.
Finally got around to taking my 6 year old grand daughter to see Monsters Vs Aliens, the 3D version. We went to the Ultra Star in Mission Valley, a really comfortable theatre. My grand daughter usually thinks she's in a rocking chair when she watches a movie and has to talk to me above the soundtrack through the whole film. Well, as soon as she put on the glasses she was still, silent, and thoroughly engrossed, as was I. Dreamworks has a real winner in this movie. It appeals to kids and their grand dads. My favorite alien was Bob. And the evil alien reminded me of Plankton on Spongebob.