Monsters vs. Aliens
A young California girl named Susan Murphy (Reese Witherspoon) is running late on her wedding day when she was unwittingly struck by a meteorite that eventually caused her to turn into a giant monster. Alerted to the threat of a new monster, the military captured her and took her to a covert government compound where she meets a ragtag group of confined monsters: Dr. Cockroach, Ph. D (Hugh Laurie), the Missing Link (Will Arnett), B.O.B. (Seth Rogen) and Insectosaurus. Their confinement is cut short, however, when mysterious alien robots arrive and demands the Earth be given to them. On a desperate move, the President took General W.R. Monger’s (Kiefer Sutherland) suggestion and ordered the Monsters be enlisted for combat against the Invading Aliens and save the world from imminent destruction.
Taglines:
- Oooze gonna save us?
- Alien Problem? Monster Solution.
- When aliens attack, monsters fight back.
Starring: (voices of) Reese Witherspoon, Rainn Wilson, Hugh Laurie, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Kiefer Sutherland, Stephen Colbert and Paul Rudd
Running Time: 1 hr. 34 min.
Release Date: March 27, 2009
MPAA Rating: Rated PG for sci-fi action, some crude humor and mild language.
Distributor: DreamWorks International, Paramount Pictures
Trivia:
- During the jet fighter attack on the alien robot one of the missiles is emblazoned with the logo “E.T. Go Home” and is accompanied by a musical burst from John Williams’ score from the same movie: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982).
- The fighter jets are F-14 Tomcats and the helicopters are AH-64 Apaches.
- This will be the first computer animated movie which will be produced in real 3-D instead of converting the film into 3-D after it is finished, which will add $15 million extra to the film’s budget.
- As of Monsters vs. Aliens, all feature films released by DreamWorks Animation will be produced in a stereoscopic 3-D format.
- DreamWorks ran a 3-D promotional trailer of the movie before halftime of Super Bowl XLIII on NBC on February 1, 2009.
- The film was scheduled for a May 2009 release, but they moved it to March 27, 2009, so as to prevent competition with James Cameron’s upcoming Avatar.
- A video game is known to be coming out by March 2009. It will be the last Dreamworks film video game made by Activision, though the Nintendo DS version will be published by Amaze Entertainment.
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