Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Monsters VS Aliens


Starring: Reese Witherspoon ... Susan Murphy / Ginormica (voice)

Seth Rogen ... B.O.B. (voice)

Hugh Laurie ... Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. (voice)

Will Arnett ... The Missing Link (voice)

Kiefer Sutherland ... General W.R. Monger (voice)

Rainn Wilson ... Gallaxhar (voice)

Stephen Colbert ... President Hathaway (voice)

Paul Rudd ... Derek Dietl (voice)

Julie White ... Wendy Murphy (voice)

Jeffrey Tambor ... Carl Murphy (voice)

Amy Poehler ... Computer (voice)

Ed Helms ... News Reporter (voice)

Renée Zellweger ... Katie (voice)

John Krasinski ... Cuthbert (voice)

Sean Bishop ... Private Bullhorn / Helicopter Pilot / Advisor Ortega (voice)


Synopsis: On her wedding day, Susan Murphy (Reese Witherspoon) is hit by a meteorite infused with Quantonium, a rare and powerful element that causes her to grow to an enormous size. Targeted by the government as a monster, Susan is captured and imprisoned at a secret facility where other such oddities are being held, including Dr. Cockroach (Hugh Laurie), a mad scientist who accidentally transformed himself into a roach-human hybrid, B.O.B. (Seth Rogen), a gelatinous, brainless mass brought to life in an experiment gone wrong, The Missing Link (Will Arnett), a Creature-from-the-Black-Lagoon-like lizard man, and the skyscraper-sized mutant larvae Insectosaurus. When deranged alien overlord Gallaxhar (Rainn Wilson) arrives on Earth to obtain the precious Quantonium and conquer the world, President Hathaway (Stephen Colbert) offers the monsters their freedom in exchange for defeating the evil mastermind and his legion of robots and clones.

- The Massie Twins


Review: by Peter Travers, RollingStone.com

An animated funhouse that delivers on its title and ups its scary-comic impact if you see it in 3-D. Alien dust turns Susan (voiced by Reese Witherspoon) into 50-foot Ginormica on her wedding day. She joins other monsters — Seth Rogen's one-eyed blob is my fave — to fight an alien army led by Gallaxhar (Rainn Wilson). WALL-E had more charm, more soul, more everything. But there's enough merry mischief here to satisfy, even if you’re way past puberty.

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