Monsters vs. Aliens

When human-hating aliens disrupt earthbound cable-television signals, it's up to a monster-hunting superhero to take out the pesky extraterrestrials and ensure that television viewers are not deprived in this animated adaptation of the popular comic-book series. The DreamWorks Animation release is ...more

"We need monsters," bellows Kiefer Sutherland's gruff General W.R. Monger in Monsters Vs. Aliens 3-D. We most certainly do. There's something endlessly endearing about cutesy creatures (though they're mildly creepy in Monsters), and they're especially fantastic in 3-D. In the film, monsters are necessary because the world is under attack by Gallaxhar (Rainn Wilson) and his armed alien hordes. So, America's top gun, Monger, chooses a crack quartet of monsters from a top-secret underground base ...more

With references to House of Wax, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and George Lucas, the first 30 seconds of DreamWorks' Monsters vs. Aliens makes it clear that the filmmakers wanted to pay homage to their favorite sci-fi films. Thankfully, the genre in-jokes aren't the focal point -- they just provide amusing window dressing so that movie-savvy parents can enjoy this elegantly simple tale as much as their kids. The story centers on Susan (Reese Witherspoon), a bride whose wedding goes ...more