Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)

[TitanoGoji16]

...This doesn't have a thread already? Seriously? Wow.

Well, I just saw this, and I really enjoyed it. It's quite possibly Dreamworks' best animated movie aside from Shrek and Shrek 2. It's a great tip of the hat to old 1950s alien invasion movies, and of course giant monster movies like the Godzilla series.

[Spoiler Alert]

The story revolves around a woman named Susan (Reese Witherspoon), who, on her wedding day, gets hit by a meteor and grows several stories in height. Renamed Ginormica, she gets captured by the government and imprisoned in Area 51 alongside Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. (Hugh Laurie), the Missing Link (Will Arnett), B.O.B. (Seth Rogen) and the immense Insectosaurus. But when an extraterrestrial invasion begins and a gigantic alien robot threatens San Francisco, the President (Stephen Colbert) and General W.R. Monger (Keifer Sutherland) give their giant captives the chance to save humankind.

There's plenty of nice action sequences (including a chase through San Francisco which culminates in a brawl atop the Golden Gate Bridge), and quite a few winks to classic sci-fi movies (the President plays the Close Encounters of the Third Kind theme on a keyboard when the alien robot first lands on Earth).

The cast is great, too. Stephen Colbert is hilarious as the dim-witted President (which, thankfully, is not yet another "LAWL DUBYA BUSH" impression). Considering how Dreamworks is with pop-culture references, I kept expecting 24 and House gags to show up, due to Sutherland and Laurie, but they never came, which was simultaneously nice and disappointing.

I sort of hope this gets a sequel, but that just might be the G-Fan in me wanting to see more buildings get crushed.

[MouthForWar]

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