A fun movie

Rating: 8/10 (11 October 2009)

Not a big fan of Dreamworks animation, but this was a fun movie.
The plot is that a girl named Susan is hit by a meteor on her wedding day that transforms her into a giant. (Reminscent of the "50 Foot Woman" and "The Amazing Collosal Man" both of which have homages in the film.) She is locked up with a bunch of equally not-quite-infringing-on-someone-else's-copyrighted characters, including a gill man called "The Missing Link (Obviously, the Creature from the Black Lagoon) Insectosaurus (Toho's Mosura), Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D (The Fly) and the gelatinous B.O.B. (The Blob). Of course, despite the patasches, none of these monsters are in the least bit as scary as their 1950's counterparts, and the audience's sympathies are immediately with them.
This situation is immediately put into motion when an alien robot attacks the earth in search of the element that makes Susan a giant. What follows are some fun scenes, something the kids will enjoy.