A particularly clever sequence finds B.O.B stuck like a wad of gum to the massive metal foot of a robot as it tromps down the streets of San Francisco.Ī personal favorite is Insectosaurus, the huge grub with big eyes and a screeching way of communicating. Seth Rogen voices B.O.B., an endearing, dimwitted, translucent blob with one eye. Incarcerated since the 1950s, the monsters are a B-movie Who’s Who. It’s a loaded name, but Kiefer Sutherland does amusing things with his puffed-up man in a uniform.
The couple’s strained relationship isn’t half as entertaining as the newly found bonds Susan makes with a group of misfits once she becomes Ginormica.Ĭaptured like Gulliver by a Lilliputian army, she’s confined to a top-secret facility run by Gen. How interesting it is for youngsters to get an early gander at marital compromise, we can only guess: not very.īut this is the rub of so many animated features: They seem crafted by hipsters and newbie parents who fear their own boredom as much as that of the ticket-buying guardians in the audience. When he puts the kibosh on their honeymoon for a job interview, you get a whiff of his character. Her fiance, Derek (Paul Rudd) is a weatherman angling to be an anchor. She’s voiced for maximum likability and gumption by Reese Witherspoon. When a large chunk of of glowing meteor lands in Modesto, Calif., irradiating bride-to-be Susan Murphy, she grows and grows and grows. But it sure is spellbinding, and the story’s got its charms. Loyalists to story, we’re not sure this represents the deepest magic of the movies. There’s something planetarium-groovy about Saturn’s rings jutting out of the screen, or meteor fragments showering the folks just a couple of rows ahead. Honest-to-goodness “Whoas” were uttered at a preview screening. Aliens” boldly goes where movies went before – The Denver Post
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