Beautifully animated science-fiction movie, entertaining enough.

Rating: Null/10 (12 October 2009)

We saw this last night on DVD. When we saw the extras it became clear that the movie was made as a 3-D movie. While the DVD is a straightforward 2-D movie, the images are so clear and interesting it looks almost like 3-D.
The story is just interesting, science-fiction fluff, but not as good and as interesting as movies like "Wall-E" or "Monsters Inc.".
Reese Witherspoon's voice is Susan Murphy, getting ready to go into the church for her wedding. Then we see the explosion of a planet, supposedly some time earlier, and a glowing blue-green piece flies away, and is headed for Modesto, California, where Susan and her fiancée' live. As fate would have it, the meteorite falls on Susan. It doesn't harm her, instead the "mojo" of the projectile becomes part of her, and when she walks into the wedding chapel she is glowing a soft blue-green. Then she begins growing rapidly, into a giant woman. In this form she is nicknamed "Ginormica". Of course the wedding ceremony is aborted.
The US military reacts right away, under the leadership of Kiefer Sutherland's voice as General W.R. Monger (war monger). Seems for about 50 years he has been in charge of a top-secret program where real monsters are captured and held in a location that is also top-secret, and after shooting drugs into her, Ginormica is brought there. She meets several of the monsters, including Seth Rogen's voice as B.O.B. (who is a blob without a brain), Hugh Laurie's voice as Dr. Cockroach who can't be crushed and killed, and Will Arnett's voice as The Missing Link.
The bad guys are creatures with 4 eyes from the planet that got blown up, they need to get back their "mojo" that is now inside Susan. So they first send an giant robotic probe that just about destroys San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge, but Susan and the other monsters manage to prevail. So the creatures themselves come to Earth to re-capture the mojo.
We can all pretty well guess what happens, and when Susan finally is returned to normal size realizes what a heel her fiancée' is and she is headed for a better life.