DH and I saw Monsters Vs Aliens today and it was great. Really, really fun, great characters, great vocal performances, great animation.
It does earn its PG rating - the humor is pretty adult, and it's *very* violent for something being marketed as a kid's movie. The violence is all bloodless of course, but the body count is higher than I was prepared for. There were some really young kids in the screening audience who did not sound like they were having a good time.
But for grown-ups who like monsters and aliens and 3D animation and Stephen Colbert, I highly recommend it!
Prince William has a Harry Potter scar
...for the love of heaven, don't tell the Empress!
Prince William has a Harry Potter scar
...for the love of heaven, don't tell the Empress!
::faints from the beauty of a beautiful thing::
Ha. The Empress is exactly the audience I posted that link for.
But for grown-ups who like monsters and aliens and 3D animation and Stephen Colbert, I highly recommend it!
This is me! Thanks for the rec; I thought it looked good from the trailers.
Dreamworks is predicting insanely huge numbers for Monsters v. Aliens. I hope they're right. They sent us managers a gift box including our own stuffed Insectosauruses (Insectosauri?) and I must say they are cute as giant mutant insect larvae could be.
I would appreciate any more comments on Monster v Aliens, as Casper (5.5) is very interested in the previews.
She seems to be a bit cold-blooded, actually - we watched Animal Cops (by mistake) recently, and while she had a lot of questions, she wasn't distressed.
Violence-wise, it's probably about on par with Star Wars.
I think it's probably more violent-seeming to adults because a 5 year-old isn't going to be extrapolating the consequences of all the collateral damage. (That is, the onscreen body-count is mostly alien clones who don't quite count, but if you stop and think about the logistics of some of the action scenes, there's no WAY most of the background extras could have survived.)
There's a lot of slapstick that will be funny to young kids, but most of the pop culture references will go right over their heads - they reference just about every classic SF/action movie ever made, as well as 24 and The Colbert Report.
Gender politics-wise, I think all little girls everywhere should see it. It never really occured to me before that Pixar, much as I love them, has never once had a female protagonist in any of their films.
She wasn't the lead. She's a big enough character to qualify for a Best Actress nod, but it's still Woody's movie.
Same goes for Elastigirl and Dory. Pixar is all about the awesome female second-in-command.
