You have already seen this movie!
FD: you find all the reviews that run along these lines.
With its star-studded voice cast, silly giant monsters, and awesome alien robots, Monsters vs. Aliens is a great scifi comedy. It also brings a welcome snark to the usual after-school-special message of acceptance. Spoilers ahead! ...... (but no really new ones!) ....
"It's hard not to giggle, regardless of your age, when President Colbert tries to communicate with the giant space robot through music - specifically the funky Axel F. theme song from Beverly Hills Cop. This is just one of dozens of clever little references strewn throughout the movie that will tickle adults and fly straight over kids' heads without any harm done. There's a brief moment with a Journey song that will make you howl, and of course all the monsters have their parallels in the great monsters of filmland canon: Ginormica is the 50 Foot Woman, Bob is the Blob, Dr. Cockroach is The Fly, and The Missing Link is the Creature from the Black Lagoon. And their giant bug pet, Insectasaurus, is Mothra. (Yay Mothra!) ..."
It is just not that good a movie to take your grandson to see if you are looking at the money, even when the price is one Senior $7 and one child $7 ... and the Large Popcorn and the one Medium Drink are $9. (That is really $30 for two people) and you end up with a movie that is a shadow (echo maybe) of the real movies of my youth.
The basis for today's SF Cartoon Comedy is the real scary stuff of my younger years. The Bloob keep me awake at night (and that was from watching it on TV ten years later n Black and White)... the real stuff was alive.
This is a water-downed version of Kool-aid.
Even the scene at the beginning of this movie is from at least three or four other movies, including Beverly Hills Cop. Having seen those, there is no surprise for you. And the younger kids in the audience need to have seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind or at least the You-Tube segment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUcOaGawIW0 to get the whole joke... but at least there is a Joke for them. It got them to laugh.
BUT it was NOT in 3D!
No problem, the newest grandson and I just sat there and pretended that it was in 3D with the glasses his newest grandfather had brought along for the movie... just like the writers (all eight of them in the credits) pretended they were writing a great movie with parts of the old ones they remembered.
I am going to have a great summer renting and showing the grand kids the original ones.
At least the younger ones... I made sure the others saw the originals.
FD
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