Didn't bowl me over but was still entertaining

Rating: 8/10 (12 April 2009)

I wasn't bowled over by the film but neither was I bored for the 94 minutes it was on. The time passed so quickly that I didn't feel the usual customary discomfit sitting in the cinema chairs that I usually get.
The story was interesting and as other people have commented, harped back to the 50's Sci-fi films about monsters on the loose, terrorising the people on screen and in the audience. I thought it was really refreshing to have the monsters trying to safe the earth instead of destroying it, putting a different spin on it as in the past monsters are always seen as the bad guys.
The film was very funny and I liked all the nods to other Science Fiction films like Close Encounters, The Blob, E.T and The Fly. The cast are brilliant and clearly are the right choices for the characters they play, Reese Witherspoon as Susan, Hugh Laurie as Doctor Cockroach, Will Arnett as the Missing Link but in particular the two that gripped my attention the most was Kiefer Sutherland as General Monger and Seth Rogen as the not-so-bright B.O.B.
Is it worth going to see it at the Cinema or when it comes out on DVD?, yes it is because it was never boring and through the cast, script and visual effects kept me watching till the very end.