Review – Planet 51

After the pleasant surprise of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, I thought I’d risk another kid-oriented animation. Guess I pushed my luck a little too far. This turned out to be a run-of-the-mill piece of kiddie corn. An astronaut from Earth gets a xenophobic reception after landing on a planet inhabited by green people stuck in the 1950s. Like Meatballs, this show bets the farm on the quirkiness of the premise and the cleverness of the gags. Unlike Meatballs, here it doesn’t work. Mildly amusing