Monsters vs. Aliens

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. (06/09/2012)

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. (10/06/2009)

I really can't help it... it was making me feel slowly nauseous. I don't understand how, it's never happened to me before, but this one disgusted me so much that as much as I hate to give a garbage rating, this deserves nothing less from me. I'm really sorry, but the boredom and disgust this film stirred up in me is just unforgivable. (12/18/2009)

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 (03/02/2013)

I don't know, it wasn't all that great. I was probably expecting this cartoon to be more "adult", with more sci-fi references and stuff, which I shouldn't have done. Instead, I got a nicely made fairy tale with (another in a series... God, slow down already!) moral lessons that went by quickly, but most of it didn't really stick in my head. The most sympathetic character from the team of "good guys" is definitely the (semi)crazy Dr. Cockroach, but the aliens are the ones that entertained me the most in Monsters vs. Aliens. Especially their leader - a wonderfully slimy, evil bastard. A perfect film for children, whilst adults only need to see it once. Too bad I’m not a kid anymore - everything would be so pretty, colorful, cute, and in 3D to boot! (06/26/2010)