Fresh
Monsters vs Aliens is skilfully animated and spasmodically funny, but you get the impression the film's seven (!) writers ran out of ideas two-thirds of the way through.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Monsters vs Aliens
Saving the day the monster way.
2009 · 1h 34m · PG
Adventure, Animation, Family, Science Fiction
Directed by
Rob Letterman
,
Conrad Vernon
Overview
When Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches. The military jumps into action and captures Susan, secreting her away to a covert government compound. She is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group of Monsters...
Director and cast
- Rob Letterman Director
- Conrad Vernon Director
- Seth Rogen as B.O.B. (voice)
- Reese Witherspoon as Susan Murphy / Ginormica (voice)
- Hugh Laurie as Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. (voice)
- Paul Rudd as Derek Dietl (voice)
- Kiefer Sutherland as General W.R. Monger (voice)
- Rainn Wilson as Gallaxhar (voice)
- Will Arnett as The Missing Link (voice)
- Stephen Colbert as President Hathaway (voice)
- Jimmy Kimmel as Insectosaurus (voice)
- Julie White as Wendy Murphy (voice)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
73%
Tomatometer
Fresh
[The voice cast] really delivered funny line after funny line throughout this.
Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies
Fresh
Monsters Vs Aliens made me feel like a big kid again.
Ben Lyons, At the Movies
Rotten
As I took off my gray-lensed 3-D spectacles at the end of Monsters vs. Aliens, I felt not so much immersed as fuzzy with exhaustion.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Fresh
It's an affectionate, fairly funny riff on 1950s sci-fi movies, which often featured aliens, sometimes in the form of gelatinous glop, trying to take over Earth before earthlings, usually of the military variety, save the day.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
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