Planet 51

Planet 51

Synopsis

The inhabitants of Planet 51 live in fear of ‘alien’ invasion. Their paranoia is realised when an astronaut arrives from Earth and befriends a young resident. He has to avoid capture in order to recover his spaceship and try to return home.

Official Site: www.sonypictures.com/movies/planet51

Singapore Release Date: 10th December 2009, Thursday

Running Time: 90 minutes

Ratings: G

Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy

Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Seann William Scott, Gary Oldman, John Cleese

Crew: Director (Jorge Blanco), Co-Director (Javier Adad, Marcos Martinez), Producer (Ignacio Perez Dolset, Guy Colins), Writers (Joe Stillman), Music (James Seymour Brett), and Editing (Alex Rodriguez)

The Trailer

The Review

Planet 51 is all about alien phobia. In this case, the humans are the alien.

As cute as the movie was, especially brilliant in the technical aspect of the animation graphics department, the movie will be entertaining enough for kids, but I don’t think it will impress the grown-ups.

It’s failure is that it has a bland storyline, many of the sequences seems forced and desperate to save the movie which lacks emotion.

The animation relies to much of the references it has to classics such Star Wars. Even the characters seems like a total rip-off from other animations, such as the robot-dog, Rover, is a total clone of EVE from Wall.E.

Yes the characters are funny, but they are forgettable.

This is a great kids film, but for the adults, just bear with it.

The Good

• Humour is seamless
• Corner-cutting animation
• The voices were well cast

The Bad

• Characters are cliché stereotypes
• Decent script, but could be better
• Has couple of objectionable non-family orientated references

Editor’s Ratings