Monsters vs. Aliens

A fun cartoon, full of references to old sci-fi movies of the 1950s. The story is a mixture of various crackpot ideas (typical examples of this are the heroic president and his keyboard, red buttons and the wonderful B.O.B.) and how a daydreaming girl becomes a woman. The invasion of aliens is really just a catalyst for the events that follow. What annoys me is that in the movie theatre I was robbed of the original voices (Bauer and House M.D. in a movie together!) and even though the Czech dubbing was pretty well-done, I look forward to watching it on DVD in English. E.T. GO HOME! (04/08/2009)

In terms of entertainment and jokes, I think it’s unexpectedly weak. I can’t complain about the animation or the story, which again brings something new and surprisingly tries to push the envelope quite a lot. Unfortunately, though, I don’t remember anything particularly interesting or amusing during the film, or a character that I grew to love, which I perceive as a big flaw in these animated films. A level below Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. (09/06/2012)

This week there were quite a few animated movies, but it's true that I was looking forward to "Monsters vs. Aliens" for a long time. After all, I was quite curious to hear the voices of actors like Seth Rogen or Hugh Laurie. Additionally, the title seemed quite promising. True, I was expecting a slightly rougher film that wouldn't just be ordinary family entertainment, but I still think that the characters were modeled in such an interesting way that it's not a complete waste of time. For fans of B-movies, there are quite a few references that can make you smile. The storyline is quite good, really like a B-movie sci-fi. A woman wants to marry her dream man, but her day is slightly ruined when he tells her that there will be no dream trip to Paris, and instead they will just go to Fresno, California, which is definitely not the biggest city of all. Nor the most interesting. But even the wedding doesn't happen, as a meteorite suddenly comes from space and hits the future bride. Fortunately, she survives, surprisingly, but everyone at the ceremony witnesses a strange event. The bride starts to glow. And then she suddenly starts growing. To literally enormous proportions. An army instantly surrounds her and pacifies her. They discover that there are more monsters, creatures that were created by an experiment, but she is the only one that still looks human. Also the only one that the alien and his hundreds of clones are after. Like I said, it's like a great B-movie and that's what it resembles the most. The monster characters are interesting enough to appeal to the audience, although the villain is not particularly outstanding, but that's not a problem. The tricks he uses are deadly enough. Of course, the story has to have a clear script, there's nothing really new here, so the biggest surprise is that the protagonist starts growing at the beginning. But nothing too revolutionary, right? Ultimately, it's a decent movie that doesn't impress with anything significantly new, but manages to captivate with its characters and their humor. More: http://www.filmovy-denik.cz/2012/12/wtc-yes-man-mary-max-zambezia-cerna.html (02/03/2013)

Even after ten years, I still find this animated film entertaining. Sure, the story isn’t as sophisticated as Toy Story, but it's much more action-packed (and not in the usual dumb way), it contains a lot of great one-liners (especially by Link and B.O.B.), only the main villain seemed rather weak. Fortunately, the president and the doctor's crazy laugh were excellent. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! (10/11/2020)

For all the tripping up, dancing around and hitting of heads with a imaginable things, they forgot about... Well, about everything, in fact. All hail the exceptions in the form of the original dubbing, what was written on the rocket and those few good nods to the monster/UFO B-movies of the fifties. (06/10/2009)