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Monsters vs. Aliens
Monsters vs. Aliens is a 2009 American animated science fiction comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation. The film was directed by Conrad Vernon and Rob Letterman from a screenplay written by Letterman, Maya Forbes, Wally Wolodarsky, and the writing team of Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger based on a story by Vernon and Letterman. Featuring the voices of Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen, Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett, Kiefer Sutherland, Rainn Wilson, Paul Rudd, and Stephen Colbert, the film involves a group of misfit monsters tasked by the United States Armed Forces to stop the invasion of an extraterrestrial villain and save the world in exchange for freedom.
It was DreamWorks Animation's first feature film to be directly produced in a stereoscopic 3D format instead of being converted into 3D after completion, which added $15 million to the film's budget.
Originally slated for release on May 15, 2009, Monsters vs. Aliens was released by Paramount Pictures on March 27, 2009, in the United States in 2D, RealD 3D, IMAX 3D, and 4DX. The film received mixed reviews from critics, It grossed $381 million worldwide on a $175 million budget. It was the start to the Monsters vs. Aliens franchise, and despite not being followed by a sequel, it was followed by two television specials, Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space and Night of the Living Carrots, and a Nickelodeon television series in 2013, that all take place after the film.
In Modesto, California, Susan Murphy prepares for her wedding to weatherman Derek Dietl, who switches their honeymoon in Paris, France to Fresno for a career opportunity. Just before the ceremony, a meteorite from a destroyed planet lands on her. She initially appears unharmed but, during the ceremony, energy she absorbed from the meteorite causes her to grow 49 feet 11 inches tall, accidentally destroying the church. A U.S. military detachment quickly arrives to tranquilize and capture her. Susan awakens in a top-secret government facility for monsters, where she meets General W.R. Monger, the 89-year-old Army officer in charge of the facility, and her fellow inmates: Dr. Herbert Cockroach Ph.D., a scientist turned human-cockroach hybrid; B.O.B. (Benzoate Ostylezene Bicarbonate), a live, brainless, indestructible gelatinous mass of blue goo; the Missing Link, a prehistoric 20,000-year-old fish-ape hybrid; and Insectosaurus, a 350-foot-tall bug mutated by nuclear radiation. Susan is renamed "Ginormica" by the government and is forbidden any contact with her friends and family.
Meanwhile, faraway on his mysterious spaceship, a squid-like extraterrestrial overlord named Gallaxhar is alerted to the presence of "Quantonium", a powerful substance, on Earth; he sends a gigantic robotic retrieval alien probe. When it lands, the unintelligent President of the United States, President Hathaway, who is also Monger's boss, attempts first contact by playing "Axel F" on a keyboard, but the machine simply goes on a destructive attack straight towards San Francisco, unaffected by the military's attempts to destroy it. Monger convinces Hathaway to grant the monsters their freedom if they can stop the robot. In San Francisco, the probe detects the Quantonium within Ginormica's body and targets her. The monsters finally manage to destroy it at the Golden Gate Bridge by using parts of the bridge itself, so the government sets them free.
Gallaxhar sets a course for Earth to obtain the Quantonium himself while the now-free Ginormica returns home with her new friends and reunites with her parents. While the monsters cause some havoc due to their lack of social experience, she tries to reunite with Derek but he breaks off their engagement, believing she would overshadow his career. Initially heartbroken, Ginormica soon realizes that her life was better as a monster and embraces her new self. Suddenly, Gallaxhar's ship arrives and uses a tractor beam to pull Ginormica on board; Insectosaurus is shot and seemingly killed when he tries to intervene.
Enraged by her friend's supposed death, Ginormica quickly breaches containment and chases Gallaxhar, but he traps her in a machine that extracts the Quantonium from her body, shrinking her back to her original size. Gallaxhar then uses the extracted Quantonium to create clones of himself in order to launch a full-scale invasion of Earth. Monger manages to get B.O.B, Link, and Dr. Cockroach onto the ship, where they rescue Ginormica and make their way to the main power core where Dr. Cockroach sets the ship to self-destruct to prevent the invasion. Confronting Gallaxhar on the bridge as he tries to escape, Ginormica reabsorbs the Quantonium, restoring her monstrous size and strength. Rescuing her friends, they flee the ship and are rescued by Monger and Insectosaurus, now metamorphosed into a butterfly. The ship then self-destructs, killing Gallaxhar and his army.
Returning to Modesto, Ginormica, B.O.B, Dr. Cockroach, Link, and Insectosaurus receive a hero's welcome. Hoping to give himself a career boost, Derek tries to get back with Ginormica, but she rejects and humiliates him live on TV with B.O.B swallowing Derek up and spitting him out. Monger informs the monsters that a monstrous snail named "Escargantua," mutated from falling into a French nuclear reactor, is slowly making its way to Paris, so the monsters head out to confront the new threat.
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Monsters vs. Aliens
Monsters vs. Aliens is a 2009 American animated science fiction comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation. The film was directed by Conrad Vernon and Rob Letterman from a screenplay written by Letterman, Maya Forbes, Wally Wolodarsky, and the writing team of Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger based on a story by Vernon and Letterman. Featuring the voices of Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen, Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett, Kiefer Sutherland, Rainn Wilson, Paul Rudd, and Stephen Colbert, the film involves a group of misfit monsters tasked by the United States Armed Forces to stop the invasion of an extraterrestrial villain and save the world in exchange for freedom.
It was DreamWorks Animation's first feature film to be directly produced in a stereoscopic 3D format instead of being converted into 3D after completion, which added $15 million to the film's budget.
Originally slated for release on May 15, 2009, Monsters vs. Aliens was released by Paramount Pictures on March 27, 2009, in the United States in 2D, RealD 3D, IMAX 3D, and 4DX. The film received mixed reviews from critics, It grossed $381 million worldwide on a $175 million budget. It was the start to the Monsters vs. Aliens franchise, and despite not being followed by a sequel, it was followed by two television specials, Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space and Night of the Living Carrots, and a Nickelodeon television series in 2013, that all take place after the film.
In Modesto, California, Susan Murphy prepares for her wedding to weatherman Derek Dietl, who switches their honeymoon in Paris, France to Fresno for a career opportunity. Just before the ceremony, a meteorite from a destroyed planet lands on her. She initially appears unharmed but, during the ceremony, energy she absorbed from the meteorite causes her to grow 49 feet 11 inches tall, accidentally destroying the church. A U.S. military detachment quickly arrives to tranquilize and capture her. Susan awakens in a top-secret government facility for monsters, where she meets General W.R. Monger, the 89-year-old Army officer in charge of the facility, and her fellow inmates: Dr. Herbert Cockroach Ph.D., a scientist turned human-cockroach hybrid; B.O.B. (Benzoate Ostylezene Bicarbonate), a live, brainless, indestructible gelatinous mass of blue goo; the Missing Link, a prehistoric 20,000-year-old fish-ape hybrid; and Insectosaurus, a 350-foot-tall bug mutated by nuclear radiation. Susan is renamed "Ginormica" by the government and is forbidden any contact with her friends and family.
Meanwhile, faraway on his mysterious spaceship, a squid-like extraterrestrial overlord named Gallaxhar is alerted to the presence of "Quantonium", a powerful substance, on Earth; he sends a gigantic robotic retrieval alien probe. When it lands, the unintelligent President of the United States, President Hathaway, who is also Monger's boss, attempts first contact by playing "Axel F" on a keyboard, but the machine simply goes on a destructive attack straight towards San Francisco, unaffected by the military's attempts to destroy it. Monger convinces Hathaway to grant the monsters their freedom if they can stop the robot. In San Francisco, the probe detects the Quantonium within Ginormica's body and targets her. The monsters finally manage to destroy it at the Golden Gate Bridge by using parts of the bridge itself, so the government sets them free.
Gallaxhar sets a course for Earth to obtain the Quantonium himself while the now-free Ginormica returns home with her new friends and reunites with her parents. While the monsters cause some havoc due to their lack of social experience, she tries to reunite with Derek but he breaks off their engagement, believing she would overshadow his career. Initially heartbroken, Ginormica soon realizes that her life was better as a monster and embraces her new self. Suddenly, Gallaxhar's ship arrives and uses a tractor beam to pull Ginormica on board; Insectosaurus is shot and seemingly killed when he tries to intervene.
Enraged by her friend's supposed death, Ginormica quickly breaches containment and chases Gallaxhar, but he traps her in a machine that extracts the Quantonium from her body, shrinking her back to her original size. Gallaxhar then uses the extracted Quantonium to create clones of himself in order to launch a full-scale invasion of Earth. Monger manages to get B.O.B, Link, and Dr. Cockroach onto the ship, where they rescue Ginormica and make their way to the main power core where Dr. Cockroach sets the ship to self-destruct to prevent the invasion. Confronting Gallaxhar on the bridge as he tries to escape, Ginormica reabsorbs the Quantonium, restoring her monstrous size and strength. Rescuing her friends, they flee the ship and are rescued by Monger and Insectosaurus, now metamorphosed into a butterfly. The ship then self-destructs, killing Gallaxhar and his army.
Returning to Modesto, Ginormica, B.O.B, Dr. Cockroach, Link, and Insectosaurus receive a hero's welcome. Hoping to give himself a career boost, Derek tries to get back with Ginormica, but she rejects and humiliates him live on TV with B.O.B swallowing Derek up and spitting him out. Monger informs the monsters that a monstrous snail named "Escargantua," mutated from falling into a French nuclear reactor, is slowly making its way to Paris, so the monsters head out to confront the new threat.