Review – Monsters vs. Aliens

Dreamworks animations tend to be hit and miss with me, and this one was something of a miss. The technical quality was fine. The voice casting was fine. The story was fine. It just never got to the “hey, this is good” point. A woman gets hit by a meteor on her wedding day, and the plotdevicium in the rock causes her to grow to immense size. She’s immediately whisked off to a secret government facility for monsters. There she and the other strange creatures languish until they’re needed to fight an attack on the Earth by a giant robot from outer space. The gender politics waver between “good point” and “okay, now you’re pushing it too hard.” Otherwise this is a parade of animation showboating, a handful of funny physical comedy, and not a lot else. Mildly amusing