Planet 51 (2009)

Very disappointed :(

Simply A Masterpiece

Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

In this successful Spanish picture there are humor , rip-roaring adventures , action , thrills and many other things . It deals with an American astronaut Captain Charles "Chuck" Baker (Voice by Dwayne Johnson) lands on Planet 51 thinking he's the first person to step foot on it. To his surprise, he finds that this planet is inhabited by little green people who are happily living in a white picket fence world, and whose only fear is that it will be overrun by alien invaders like Chuck. But on this alien planet the media has tagged spacemen as brain-eating, zombie-creating monsters, causing Baker to run . The planet is set in the 50s and even though much on the alien planet is round in design, nothing has wheels . There Chuck meets Lem (the name voiced by Justin Long, is also the abbreviation for Lunar Excursion Module. NASA's LEM was used as part of the Apollo program to land astronauts on the moon) , an average teenager working on getting the girl named Neera (Jessica Biel's voice) and furthering his career at the local planetarium . While , Chuck's command module called Odyssey (this is the same name of the command module used in the Apollo 13 mission) is orbiting the planet .Fabulous and amusing C.G. animated film , lavishly produced and achieving a big success . Gorgeous and astounding animated picture with outstanding and fantastic starring , an astronaut called Chuck and his good friend , Lem . Fun story of outland space plenty of adventures , bemusing situations , fights , chuckles , emotion , and action . Entertaining and solid retelling from Atresmedia Cine , the film division of DeAPlaneta's broadcasting group Atresmedia or Antena 3 , co-produced Planet . The whole piece of adventure teems with excitement , thrills , humor , astral atmosphere and being pretty amusing . The movie was originally going to be called "Planet One" but the owners of Planet One, who make children's and teen TV programs in the USA, threatened to sue . The film's producers chose to call the movie Planet 51 (2009), acknowledging Area 51, the supposed center of UFO investigation in America. Spain's animation output is now knocking on global market doors, boosted by the growing commitment of private broadcasters such as Antena 3 TV . Ilion Animation Studios' $60 million Planet 51, a Sony U.S. pickup, paved the way by scoring $105.7 million worldwide in 2010 . Formerly , the great producer , Julio Fernandez from Fantastic factory had produced successful animated pictures such as ¨El Raton Perez I and II¨ or "The Hairy Tooth Fairy", ¨Donkey Xote¨ , ¨Gisaku¨ , ¨El Cid : the legend¨ by Jose Pozo and ¨Goomer¨. Two of Spain's more anticipated releases — the $28.6 million-budgeted "Justin and the Knights of Valour," produced by Antonio Banderas, and Argentinian Juan Jose Campanella's $20 million Foosball are animated features.The motion picture was compellingly realized by a trio of perfect filmmakers as Jorge Blanco , Javier Abad and Marcos Martinez ,with a high budget of $70 million, this is the most expensive movie produced in Spain . Production lasted 16 months, roughly half the amount of time it takes to make a Pixar movie. Rating : Above average , worthwhile watching .

It wasn't half as bad as I expected. Planet 51 is directed mainly at children, and the humor is appropriately simplistic, which makes the infinite number of cultural references, of a type that was archaic when Pleasantville used them ten years ago, rather odd, because it seems unlikely that any child would get them, but there are enough laughs to make it enjoyable, even if the admittedly appealing premise runs out of gas after about fifteen minutes. If the movie tried to make a serious point about what makes someone 'alien' or about xenophobia and fear of the unknown, then it failed miserably. But as a piece of straight entertainment for the family, it's a fairly enjoyable (thoug forgettable) piece of film.

"Planet 51" is an above average animated comedy which reverses 1950s science fiction movies, in which paranoid humans chase after the UFOs and extra terrestrials hiding in their midsts, by placing a human astronaut on an alien planet. The alien planet is suffused with 1950s American pop cultural artifacts, references and trinkets.The film works fairly well as a comedy, drama and adventure, but is of interest mostly for its conceptual designs, which fans of retro art and 1950s iconography should find cosy.Like most of these films, "Planet 51's" message is wholly hypocritical. Here we have a film preaching individuality, free thinking and the importance of "testing the Gods with a hammer", which adopts a completely conformist and formulaic structure.The film epitomises Hollywood science fiction; always looking backwards, always pillaging the past and glamming up 1950s scifi tropes with modern CGI/effects. Few science fiction films are able to genuinely look ahead. Most should not even be classed as science fiction.7.5/10 – For kids only. Worth one viewing.

Planet 51 is yet another animated movie that works well for almost anyone, not only the kids. Planet 51 is a mostly cute movie about an alien society that are very alike our fifties, or how the fifties looks like in the movies. Their greatest horror is aliens, and trouble arise when a human astronaut lands on the planet.Spoof is the key word of the movie. Most of all it is a spoof of the entire fifties, and the invading alien genre that evolved in that decade. But Planet 51 also spoofs, and that is one of the things, alike the Pixar movies, that is best about Planet 51. It's own jokes are not quite as good as entertaining as its spoofs, but a few stand out. Especially the character Rover and his tricks are hilarious. Without his antics Planet 51 would be average at best, but with him it is quite good.Planet 51 is a cute and entertaining animated movie, perhaps best to watch with young kids. But adults will find it entertaining as well.6/10