Blog:Monsters vs. Aliens Review

Remember Monsters vs. Aliens? No, I’m not talking about the TV show that had terrible animation, I’m talking about the 2009 film by DreamWorks Animation. Starring the voices of Reese Witherspoon, Will Arnett, Seth Rogen, and Hugh Laurie, it was directed by Conrad Vernon (who would go on to direct Susage Party and [gulp] The Addams Family 2019) and Rob Letterman.

It focuses on a woman named Susan Murphy who basically teams up with a bunch of monsters to stop an alien from destroying Earth. So I just said the plot, let’s start the review.

Explaining The Plot
Let’s explain the plot. It starts off with a meteor going towards Planet Earth, like almost every monster movie should have. Two brothers getting a meteor heading towards Modesto, California. Creepy stuff happens. It looks like a burglar is breaking into somebody’s house, but who the heck is drinking water? Pictures get taken, shot by shot by shot by shot.

A woman wakes up and scream but her friends also scream at the same time. Are those her roommates that just came home after going out just to remind their best friend Susan Murphy about she getting married to Paul Rudd news reporter? Yeah, I skipped that plot WAY too fast. Sorry about that. It then goes to the opening credits where Susan gets makeup on her to get prepared for her wedding to Paul Rudd.

I’m starting to like this movie though. Hopefully it won’t end up s*itty like the two Hellboy films directed by Guillermo del Toro. She arrives in Modesto, California where she greets her father before heading in the church. She meets her future-husband Paul Rudd outside the church before Paul Rudd goes back inside the church after talking with her, but then a meteor arrives and smashes Susan. Well, she’s dead. Is there a Susan Murphy Jr. In the film?

Alright I’m just joking. Somehow, she managed to survive and then go back in the church with her mother where she manages to get the dirt off of her. And the FBI arrives for some reason. Is Paul Rudd news reporter a criminal? Paul Rudd then finds out that Susan is glowing green before Susan grows into a giant, in which her shirt somehow doesn’t rip off while growing. She destroys the church and picks up Paul Rudd before she accidentally drops Paul Rudd onto a trampoline. She gets a dart needle almost shot into her butt, going on her leg (thank goodness) and then passes out but then wakes up in an mysterious room.

She arrives into another mysterious room which is slightly bigger than the first one, and she meets Dr Cockroach P.H.D, in which she tries to kill because she’s afraid of cockroaches and then meets Bob, who is an, I don’t know who or what he is, but I do know that he sounds like Seth Rogen. Then a Will Arnett alligator greets her and then she runs into a giant standing dinosaur named Insectosaurus. I guess I managed to spell that correctly. Yay! A+ for me!

They then get food in which the Will Arnett alligator eats fish, which shows the fish’s blood for a brief moment, Dr Cockroach eats an old slipper along with garbage, and Seth Rogen eats…chicken. Yep, that’s it. No fish, no garbage, no old slipper, just chicken. An man named General W.R Momger shows Susan the tour around the top secret high-security prison which she sees Seth Rogen, Dr Cockroach, and the Will Arnett alligator doing the stuff their actors usually do everyday.

A giant robot then gets sent to space in which the President of the U.S.A President Hathaway tries to communicate with it. It looks like it wants to shake Hathaway’s hand but it destroys the stairs in which Hathaway walks in the most typical, funniest Stephen Colbert style. At a meeting, General Monger suggests that they use Susan (who’s monster nickname is now Ginormica) and the other monsters to defeat the robot alien. It is also revealed that an alien named Gallaxhar (played by Gargamel from Smurfs: The Lost Village) actually sent the robot. Of course, Gallaxhar doesn’t have a reason to send the robot until the end of the movie.

Bob and Will Arnett alligator then play Go Fish!, in which General Monger somehow allowed, while Dr Cockroach tries to bring Ginormica back to her normal self so she can get married with Paul Rudd. It makes us think that it works, but does it actually work? Nope. Like always: the answer is just NO. They then get called in to defeat the robot by General Monger in which they arrive to the city. Dr Cockroach tells Susa-I mean Ginormica to hide in the city while he and Will Arnett alligator hatch a plan to de-activate the robot.

With the help of Insectosarus, Bob, and Dr Cockroach, Ginormica manages to destroy the giant robot by decapitating it (well thank goodness that robot ain't a human) and the Gallaxhar guy gets very, very, very angry. General Monger gives Ginormica and the monsters permission to go meet Ginormica's parents. While Susan goes out to find the Paul Rudd news reporter while Susan's parents throw a party. The monsters (including Insectosarus) get invited to the party, but Bob speaks to gelatin, Dr Cockroach shakes up a fizz while it explodes, and Will Arnett alligator gets chlorine in his eyes in the pool, in which the people run away.

Angry that Ginormica wants him to put everything on hold while she tries to go back to normal, Paul Rudd breaks up with her, where she goes to a gas station, where Susan speaks with Bob, Will Arnett alligator, and Dr Cockroach. After a short talk, Susan ends up getting abducted by Gallaxhar's ship. Insectosarus (nicknamed Insecto in this scene) tries to pull Susan to safety, but ends up getting killed by a beam. Susan then disappears into the ship while Link (yes, I'm not calling him Will Arnett alligator anymore, it's getting old) mourns the death of Insecto.

Ginormica meets Gallaxhar, who chases Gallaxhar and breaks millions of his expensive doors. Gallaxhar traps her and turns back into her normal self Susan, which I will be calling Susan until she turns back to a giant. General Monger and one of his assistants bring Link, Bob, and Dr Cockroach to Gallaxhar's ship to free Susan and manage to sneak on the ship, in which they wear "disguises" that Gallaxhar's minions stupidly buy. Gallaxhar introduces himself to Planet Earth turning it into his planet called…yes, Gallaxhar's Planet, in which President Hathaway needs to clean his pants. Every movie should have toilet humor.

After shooting one of Gallaxhar's minions, they get chased by his other minions, in which Gallaxhar finds out, with them beating up his minions. They sneak into a room where Dr Cockroach does a dance in which his D in PHD stands for "Dance". He wins the dance challenge which sends the ship to self-destruct. They try to get to the exit of the room, but only Susan ends up making it while Link, Dr Cockroach, and Bob are left behind while Susan goes to fight Gallaxhar.

After having a fight with Gallaxhar, she turns herself back into Ginormica and manages to bust open the door and free the monsters. They manage to escape the ship with the help of General Monger and Insectosarus (who is turned into an butterfly which Link does not like) while Gallaxhar's ship explodes, killing Gallaxhar in the process.

Susan and the monsters manage to make it back to the neighborhood, Link gets a ton of girls getting thrown at him, and Paul Rudd forgives Ginormica. She throws Paul Rudd in the sky while Bob catches him and calls Paul Rudd a jerk while also holding gelatin. After hearing that a snail fail into a nuclear reactor and turned into a giant snail and is making it's way to Paris, Ginormica and the monsters go to Paris.

Meanwhile in a really funny mid-credits scene, President Hathaway pushes a button which sends all the nukes in the world, Hathaway breaks the fourth wall and asks the audience if they wanna freeze his head.

Overall Opinion
Monsters vs. Aliens was a fun, wacky, humor-ated, silly movie that i liked. I saw this movie on Netflix before it got removed and I thought it was fun. Many of the characters I like include Susan, General Monger, Link, Dr. Cockroach, Bob, and of course…General Monger. I'm gonna give this movie an 8/10 giving it my appreciation!