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'Monsters vs. Aliens': Monsters? Check. Aliens? Check. Jokes?
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"The new DreamWorks animated 3-D feature "Monsters vs. Aliens" is
blessed with a high-concept title—possibly the highest ever; my son's been
hocking me about this movie since before he was born—and Seth Rogen's serenely
dense line readings in the role of a genetically altered tomato gone wrong. But
a bizarre percentage of the project went wrong somewhere, along with the tomato.
Full review after the Jump,
'Monsters vs. Aliens': Monsters? Check. Aliens? Check. Jokes? Oops. |
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3-D Fun With a Beefed-Up Bride and a Dumb Blob Named B.O.B.
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"Just as “Shrek” and its successors pushed aside the sweet
enchantment of traditional fairy tale movies in favor of belching and winking
(with a saving spoonful of sugar at the end), so does “Monsters vs. Aliens” turn
fright and apocalypse into strenuous, noisy, 3-D fun." Full review after the
Jump,
3-D Fun With a Beefed-Up Bride and a Dumb Blob Named B.O.B. |
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3-D Effects Are Impressive, but The 'Aliens' Story Is Strictly
1-D |
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The super-duper 3-D big-screen Imaxed-out extravaganza that is
"Monsters vs. Aliens" has bells and whistles, whiz and bang, sound and fury. It
even has Reese Witherspoon. What it doesn't have is heart. Or soul. Or much of a
story. Full review after the Jump,
3-D Effects Are Impressive, but The 'Aliens' Story Is Strictly
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Amusing, but no Monster Hit |
Monsters
vs. Aliens doesn't press much
of a claim on your heart, your funnybone or your memory,
but it's a pleasant enough gag reel. The new DreamWorks
animated feature adheres to the studio's time-tested
formula of packing in pop culture references until the
screen stretches at the seams. When astronomers spot an
incoming spaceship, they declare a ''Code Nimoy.'' The
president of the United States tries to communicate with
the aliens through a keyboard solo that opens with the
five-note Close
Encounters theme.
The Fly,The Blob,The Creature from the Black Lagoon
and The Amazing 50-Foot
Woman all get their moment in the spotlight. Full
review after the Jump,
Amusing, but no monster hit
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Monsters
VS. Aliens Modesto,
California resident, Susan
Murphy (Reese
Witherspoon), is running
late for hew own wedding
when she is struck by a
meteor, and as a result, she
grows to
49 ft 11 in and is
labeled a monster and
captured by the military.
She is remanded to an
institution that houses
other monsters: Dr.
Cockroach, Ph.D., an
insect-headed mad scientist
(Hugh Laurie), the Missing
Link, a 20,000-year-old
fish-man (Will
Arnett), B.O.B., a
gelatin-like, jolly,
indestructible monster (Seth
Rogen) and Insectosaurus,
a fuzzy bug that stands at
350 feet tall, making even
Susan look tiny by
comparison. When a UFO lands
and an alien overlord named
Gallaxhar (Rainn
Wilson) demands that
Earth be given to them,
General W.R. Monger (Kiefer
Sutherland) suggests to
the President (Stephen
Colbert) that the
monsters can provide the
firepower to defeat the
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