Screenplay:
Joe StillmanComposer:
James Seymour BrettCast:
Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Seann William Scott, John Cleese, Gary Oldman, Mathew Horne, Rebecca Front, Alan MarriottVOD (3)
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Planet 51, the CGI animated feature film is a galactic sized alien adventure comedy that tells the story of an inverse alien invasion. Sixteen year old LEM lives on Planet 51, a white picket-fenced world reminiscent of a cheerfully innocent 1950’s America. He is happy in his safe, predictable world and spends his time daydreaming about running the local planetarium and dating the girl next door, NEERA. One day out of the blue and millions of miles from his own planet, astronaut CAPTAIN CHARLES ‘CHUCK’ BAKER lands his spaceship in Neera’s backyard, right in the middle of a family barbecue! Unaware of his surroundings, he disembarks the ship reveling in his Big Moment. He plants his flag triumphantly and turns…only to find Planet 51’s green-skinned inhabitants staring back at him bemused! He panics and flees, finding refuge quite by chance in the planetarium where Lem works.
When Lem and Chuck meet, they gradually overcome their mutual fear and strike up a friendship. Lem agrees to hide Chuck from the paranoid Planet 51 Army who are determined to capture the alien within their midst, convinced he is out to destroy them. But all Chuck wants to do is reach his spacecraft before it returns to Earth without him! So with the help of Lem and his friends, a pair of not-so-bright Planet 51 soldiers, and an excitable but trusty explorer robot, ROVER, Chuck and the gang race to reach his spaceship before it is too late... (official distributor synopsis)
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I can't help but give it the full number of stars. After Toy Story 3 and Despicable Me, Planet 51 is another cartoon that I have nothing to criticize about. I appreciate mostly the main idea of "role reversal" and the fact that the "alien" planet looks like the USA in the 1950s. Rock 'n' roll is in style, civilian hovercrafts resemble Cadillacs or Dodges, military vehicles are like Jeep Willys, TVs are in black and white, B-movie sci-fi blockbusters about brain-eating bloodsuckers attacking are ruling the movie theatres, and everyone is afraid of what lurks in the 500-mile-long universe. The arrival of an astronaut unleashes E.T. style mayhem turned inside out, we get all sorts of references to films like Alien, Terminator, Star Wars, War of the Worlds, as well as Singin' in the Rain, Grease, and plenty more, and there are some awfully fun characters to boot: A rugged general dubbed by Gary Oldman, a scientist-madman with the voice of John Cleese, a Bob Dylan alien (with a bunch of hippies in a hover-flower Volkswagen)... I could go on and on, but it's better if you see it yourself. If you like sci-fi and would like a fun homage to the greatest blockbusters, give Planet 51 a watch. It's better than Monsters vs. Aliens.
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A rather ordinary animation that stands out to me only because it is a sci-fi, but the execution of aliens here is not at all perfect, rather quite ordinary. A story about a person getting lost and how others help them to be able to return. The animation is excellent, but otherwise nothing special. Average, yes.
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