Good family film

Rating: 8/10 (30 March 2010)

I have been dying to see Monsters vs. Aliens for a while, back when it was released I never had the opportunity to go see it. One of my friends saw it and said that it was a lot of fun. So finally, I don't know how I missed it, but I saw that it was playing on HBO and definitely had to check it out. Over all I did enjoy the movie, Dreamworks usually comes up with clever ideas for animated family films. This was a very cool concept, never really thought about it, how different aliens and monsters are and what it would be like if they ever had to get into a fight. Although I do miss good old animation and there is so much CGI animation, Monsters vs. Aliens is very cool visually. The characters are so great to look at, also have great personalities that make the movie very cute and funny.
Susan Murphy is hit by a meteorite on the day of her wedding to weatherman Derek, absorbing a substance called quantonium and growing into a giantess. Alerted to the meteorite crash, the military arrive and capture Susan. She is labeled a monster, renamed "Ginormica" by the government, and sent to a top-secret prison facility headed by General W.R. Monger and containing other monsters: B.O.B., a brainless, indestructible gelatinous blob; Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D., a mad scientist with the head and abilities of a cockroach; the Missing Link, an amphibious fish-ape hybrid; and Insectosaurus, a massive grub that is larger than Susan. The monsters are forbidden to have any contact with the outside world; while the other monsters have been living contentedly with this lifestyle for the past 50 years, Susan feels incredibly isolated and wishes to return to her old life. An alien named Gallaxhar detects the quantonium radiation emanating from Earth and deploys a gigantic robotic probe to find it and extract it from its source, Susan. After a botched attempt by the President to make peaceful first contact with the robot, it begins destroying everything in sight, resisting all conventional military force used against it. General Monger convinces the President to use the monsters to fight the robot instead. The monsters accept the mission with the promise of freedom if they succeed.
I would of course recommend this movie for the family or if you're just a fan of animated movies. I nearly died laughing with the scene where the president tries to communicate with the alien at first, it's just so beyond goofy that you can't help but laugh and of course since he messes that up, he runs away getting into a helicopter screaming he's a great president and tried his best. Also another great scene is when the monsters first try to get rid of the alien, seeing their reaction to it and still learning what their power is and how they could use it to their advantage was great. The animation, the actors, the story and effects really made this into a great movie and an absolute pleasure to watch. While I'm not sure that this will go down in the classics, it's definitely a fun family film.
8/10