Monsters vs. Aliens [DVD]

Susan is a young bride to be, getting ready for her big day when a meteor strikes her and she finds herself glowing and growing out of proportion, becoming almost fifty feet tall. The military arrives soon after and after she is sedated, she awakes and finds herself locked away in a top secret facility along with other monsters who are either missing links or the subjects of experiments past and her name has been changed to Ginormica. At first, she is definitely not okay with it, and is more than anxious to get back to the life she had, but over time finds the monsters she is held with are not quite the monsters they appear to be as they begin to get acquainted. A chance for freedom arises when the monsters are asked to take on a giant alien robot and they set out for the Golden Gate Bridge where Susan earns her place as Ginormica as she almost single handedly takes it on in order to save the people on the bridge. They defeat the robot and earn their freedom at last, but when Susan tries to reconnect with her old life she discovers the man she almost married is on a fast track to promotion and considers her being a monster a big detriment to his future success and he wants nothing more to do with her. The other monsters find freedom has a hollow ring to it as well, because they aren't really accepted anywhere. It is here that Susan has found her calling as a monster--and is kidnapped by the alien seeking to gain the element that gives Susan her powers and to invade and conquer her world. The monsters then must band together to save one of their own, and stop the invasion, if they can. The monsters here are all straight from the B-movies of the Fifties, B.O.B. is a thinly disguised Blob, Dr. Cockroach is straight from "the Fly". The Missing Link is "Creature from the Black Lagoon" and Insectasaurus, is from "Mothra." Ginormica is from "Attack of the 50 ft. Woman" . This is meant to be a parody and the movie pulls it off rather well. While this may not be on a par with other movies by DreamWorks, it is still fun to watch and worth a look.

Love this movie, my kids love this movie 😍 with every penny

Just finished watching this with my wife and our 3 year old son. LOVED this movie! Not just for kids. There was definitely a lot of humor in there for the parents which kids would not understand (but wouldn't mind). Visually it looked amazing on our HD TV. We have a 3D LG TV and I didn't know there was a 3D version at the time I purchased this. The 2D version was only $4 used including shipping so who cares! The 3D version would have been over $20. I'll pick it up later. My wife and I generally don't like the same types of movies and we both laughed a lot together during this movie. I love sci-fi/action, she likes comedy-romance and cheesy family movies. The two of us being able to equally enjoy a silly animated sci-fi flick like this was very cool. With our son mind you! We are careful what our son watches. There were a few parts we thought might be too scary for him, just one or two of the action sequences, but when we asked he said "It's scary... but I like this movie!". All was good and the three of us made it to the end and felt pretty good about the hour and a half we spent watching this together. For $4, are you kidding? Money well spent. I can definitely see us watching it again at some point.

I'm not critiquing the film itself. If you want to know if plays it does in the US just fine. The 3D in the is really fantastic though with a lot of moments with great depth and scale being used in creative ways. If your looking for that film where it actually has something where it looks like something is coming out of the screen this totally does. This arrived as scheduled and I'm definitely happy with product.

We got this on Blu Ray and it looks amazing. The animation was just flat out great and in the HD format the characters and environments just come to life. Especially a screen in San Fransisco has a tremendous amount of detail.The story and characters are all very well written, extremely well animated, and the actors did a great job of bringing their voices to life. There was a lot of good clean humor with an easy to follow plot. I especially liked our heroine giant as she did a wonderful job with a well written character. I like how this character grows over the course of the movie and does not fit any female stereotypes or played as a ditz but is instead a strong and courageous woman. We need more characters like that.The extra movie for BOB's birthday was great. It was really funny and gave a little more back story on the main characters. It was also in 3D was was fun.The only downside is the film lacked 3D for the main film even though it had it in the theatres and comes with glasses for BOBs birthday film... but no 3D option for the main movie. We are not really big into 3D or anything but it would be nice to at least have the option since that is how they made the movie. Coraline offered both versions for example.Overall we love the film and it just looks so crisp and clear on blu ray. I would have given it 5 stars had the movie come in 3D. I am sure over the years we will watch this one a bunch with the kids.