Monsters vs Aliens

[stephbg]

We haven't had a great deal of luck with animated features recently, so my expectations were low when I grabbed Monsters vs Aliens. However, since I'd hired it for free on the back of a phone credit purchase, there was nothing to lose.



So, to the chase: it was AWESOME. Why had I only heard lukewarm things about this film? I loved it! In 2D at that, and with no awareness that I was missing out on anything. I find it very difficult to take the current enthusiasm for 3D with any seriousness; too much time in the technology trenches back at DDD. /insert rambling old-tech war stories here/.

I never thought I'd see Pumpkin in the movies, but there he was, playing the giant fluffy lovable but destructive insect thing. All he had to do was wander into shot and I'd be in stitches.

It had cartoon physics, with unusual realism. Dr Strangelove, and the cow from Jurassic Park. Everything. Awesome.

Comments

[callistra.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was surprisingly good. Vinnie watches it once or twice a week for ages now, and I still don't mind it and love the little injokes.
:-)

[leecetheartist.livejournal.com]

Rob and I saw it at Gold Class for our wedding anniversary this year, and very much enjoyed it and all the classic references.

A good script and story too.

You see the bit where she gets hit in the chest with a needle and throws it back at the soldier and hits him in the foot?

In The Amazing Colossal Man (1957) the 'monster' is stabbed in the toe and throws the tranquilizer at an unfortunate soldier, who is pierced through the chest...

I was stunned, as we'd seen it recently and they really recaptured the moment. It prompted me to go to the trivia page on the imdb page and have a closer look. Some very clever stuff there.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0892782/trivia

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

There are a lot more bits than that, which presumably you can see with a pro login. Husband was in monster-movie-reference heaven. I'm looking forward to watching it again to catch more of the background gags I might have missed.

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

the giant robot was amazingly menacing too, wasn't it?

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

It was indeed a good robot, with good solid chunky believable engineering.