Some cheer
Monsters vs Aliens
We bought the DVD the other day, and saw it for the first time the other night.
I love this movie!
Dreamworks can be very up and down, not so much in the quality of their computer animation as in the quality of their scripts. This one is gorgeous, mainly because of what it sends up, a list that includes films made by one Steven Spielberg - whose company it is! - and the goody two-shoes home-town America attitudes that pervade so much Hollywood-produced 'family' movies. I am particularly taken by the young lady who ends up carrying her young man towards a UFO because she wants a look and he has broken his ankle. What's more, the ending - and the choices the heroine makes - are so what Disney wouldn't do it makes my heart glad.
In fact, there are a number of anti-sexual stereotyped jokes (one involving the President of the United States) that gladden my heart.
The plot, which is basically 50s monsters battle 50s aliens-from-Outer-Space, is properly outrageous, but the characterisation isn't.
Anyhow, it cheered me up no end.
Oh, I believe the original must have been in 3D, but there was only one shot that looked as if it had been made for same. I don't think 3D would have added anything to a film whose strength is in its humour.
We bought the DVD the other day, and saw it for the first time the other night.
I love this movie!
Dreamworks can be very up and down, not so much in the quality of their computer animation as in the quality of their scripts. This one is gorgeous, mainly because of what it sends up, a list that includes films made by one Steven Spielberg - whose company it is! - and the goody two-shoes home-town America attitudes that pervade so much Hollywood-produced 'family' movies. I am particularly taken by the young lady who ends up carrying her young man towards a UFO because she wants a look and he has broken his ankle. What's more, the ending - and the choices the heroine makes - are so what Disney wouldn't do it makes my heart glad.
In fact, there are a number of anti-sexual stereotyped jokes (one involving the President of the United States) that gladden my heart.
The plot, which is basically 50s monsters battle 50s aliens-from-Outer-Space, is properly outrageous, but the characterisation isn't.
Anyhow, it cheered me up no end.
Oh, I believe the original must have been in 3D, but there was only one shot that looked as if it had been made for same. I don't think 3D would have added anything to a film whose strength is in its humour.