STARRING: Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line, Legally Blonde); Seth Rogen (Knocked Up, Superbad); Hugh Laurie (House; Black Adder); Will Arnett (Arrested Development; Blades of Glory)DIRECTORS: Rob Letterman (Shark Tale) & Conrad Vernon (Shrek 2)
WRITERS: Maya Forbes & Wallace Wolodarsky (The Rocker)
PLOT: Incarcerated B-movie monsters are released to take care of an alien invasion.
FIVE OBSERVATIONS
4 Seth Rogen steals the show as B.O.B, the Blob. Despite his gelatinous form, his attitude and humour shine through. He’s one of those characters who are often more in the background but every line out of their mouth is golden, like Marvin (voiced by Alan Rickman) in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
4 Great casting all around. Really liked the idea of Stephen Colbert playing the president. Very nice. I wish Hugh Laurie got a little more to work with as Doctor Cockroach. Will Arnett was pretty funny as The Missing Link. Reese Witherspoon and Kiefer Sutherland turn in good work. Actually Paul Rudd (who I loved in I Love You, Man) didn’t add much at all as Witherspoon’s lame fiancé, go figure.
4 Not bad for a Dreamworks film. It’s no Pixar, but who is? I usually bash Dreamworks for its adult humour that is inappropriate for young children, but this one held up really well. The story is fun and tongue-in-cheek. It’s simple, but it works.
4 The bad guy is pretty lame. Rainn Wilson (The Office, The Rocker) does what he can as the antagonist, but he’s not really scary. I wish their was a variety of aliens to match the monsters. I guess they want you siding with the monsters.
4 We watched the movie in 2D because my left eye is a little wonky and makes it so I can’t see 3D images really well. You could tell some of the opening shots was perfectly drawn for 3D but I wondered where the rest of the 3Dness was, it seemed to fade as the movie progressed. But then again, I wasn’t wearing special glasses, so what do I know. Stupid left eye.
RECOMMENDATION
See it in the theatre
(3D should be fun. Fun for the whole family)
COMING SOON
Probably Star Trek
1 comment:
It's a shame that you didn't (can't) see the 3D. It really is fabulous. Cheesy paddle ball shots are one thing, but this fancy new 3D is absolutely fantastic. I first saw Coraline (Tim Burton meets french animation) in it, and then this film. It's not just certain items stick out, or flat images laid in front of each other, it's like you're actually viewing what is going on. That shot of the huge hall looked like you were looking down a giant hall. I know, sounds odd, but it really was worth going to the theatre for. At least we all enjoyed it!
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