Ameriatch One of the best films i have seen

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

vlasec What I really like about this movie is the setting. A planet so very similar to ours in the 50's, but inhabited by smaller green guys with antennae, similar to how we imagine aliens. Then an alien invasion actually happens, when a human astronaut lands on their soil.The movie mocks our fear of the unknown and does good job with that, even though some of the situations are a bit too far to the absurd side. The movie likes to use some stereotypes, mostly for the good. At least you can identify stuff easily without having to decipher it and if you watch it with children, they might understand most of it, too.Of course, something is totally unrealistic or oversimplified, but it's a comedy, no need to take it too seriously. You wouldn't make a realistic movie about it anyway, as sentient extraterrestrial life might be very different from ours anyway, even if it shared our fears.

lisafordeay Lem(voiced by Alvin & The Chipmunks Justin Long),is a nerdy alien who's got a crush on an alien girl (voiced by Mrs Justin Timberlake Jessica Biel)who likes Lem as well but she doesn't know that he likes her too. Meanwhile we are introduced to a very charming astronaut named Chuck (voiced by Dwayne The Rock Johnson who I swear can be a bit annoying in this flick at times) enters Lem's world and befriends him while Lem's people thinks that Chuck is an alien,when in actual fact its Lem's people that are aliens,but when this military alien(voiced by Gary Oldman)and a Professor (voiced by Swan Princess and Shrek 2 and 3 star John Cleese) wants to get rid of Chuck, will Chuck ever see his world ever again?The story is kinda bland and the humor isn't that bad,the animation is good and the charcthers are OK.Overall it wasn't a bad film,some of it was funny but don't go expecting a great flick like Tangled or How To Train Your Dragon which are two of my all time favourite CGI movies of all time. Bottom line Planet 51 is an average kids film that centers on aliens (actually this movie reminds me of the 2006 film Monsters Vs Aliens as that contains aliens too and a human befriending the aliens like Susan for example and Chuck who befriended aliens.I'm giving it a 6 out of 10.

dondlab I hadn't heard about this animated marvel until it got to DVD and HBO. While some reviews have panned this movie for not being original they've completely missed the point. Unwittingly those reviewers have offered proof that this animated marvel does exactly what it's creators intended, which to offer familiar subject material in an entertaining and novel presentation.The animation rivals the best of Pixar. The backgrounds are just fantastic and rich in detail. The characters and foreground animation is truly outstanding. As in most good animated features you have to watch it several times to realize everything that's going on from one scene to the next.The plot is not very original, it's not meant to be. Part of the fun watching this film is identifying with clichés and different representations of our favorite scenes from movies past, including Alien, Singing in the Rain, Grease and others.The basic premise is astronaut Chuck Baker landing on a planet thought to be uninhabited and shockingly finding out he's not alone, but lands amongst an alien culture that mimics 1950s America. The inhabitants fear he's there to invade their world and turn them into zombies. Chuck just wants to get back home to Earth.Sadly there are no plans for a sequel at the moment. Hopefully that will change. Planet 51 is a winner.The

Blueghost So, I remember the previews for this thing a few years back, but never had a chance to catch it. I saw it on the shelf at a place that sells used DVDs, and took a chance. I was mildly amused. It was good. Not outstanding, but pretty decent. Fun, funny, adventurous, what more could you want?I liked the animation, the premise, even the story and the voice acting. It was all very good. I liked it. But, and there's always a "but" in my reviews (well ... mostly, anyway), I felt the setup wasn't given enough time. We all understand about the USAF's Area 51, and the fun being poked here, and the aliens being stuck in the developmental period equivalent of the 1950s was pretty clever, but the NASA Astronaut, his predicament and the humor derived therefrom is predicated on the notion that everyone's seen classic 1950's sci-fi B-movies. It's a tenuous theme on which to build a film.I saw those films growing up. I saw the original "The Thing", "The Blob", "Them", "Invasion of the Body Snathers", "The Three Stooges versus the Martians" and a whole slew of monster and sci-fi flicks that played on the fears of Red-Scared/anti-Communist 1950's America. Unlike most of the audience, I got all the references to various films of years gone by. I was there when Helen told Klaatu's robot "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!" I was there when Richard Graves fought giant locusts/Grasshoppers threatening Chicago (or was it Milkwaukee?). I was there when Robby the Robot bustled across an alien landscape in a sci-fi reincarnation of Jules Verne's classic about a man wanting to be left alone. I saw all those films, and tons more. But I have a hard time believing that parents, younger than me, and their children, also younger than me, will remember or even have knowledge of all of the sci- fi B-movie schlock that came out during the 50s and 60s. I just seems likely to me that the film's humor, for all of its good intentions, probably flew over the heads of a most of the people who enjoyed the film regardless.So, where's the harm? I suppose there really isn't any, but it would be nice to thing that the audience watching the thing would have an inclination of the references. But hey, that's just me.As for everything else? It's a finely crafted piece of CGI cinema. No shots are wasted. Everything looks as it should, and the characters, even the little robo-rover, shine with incredibly talented voice acting. No one misses a beat. Even John Cleese's paranoid super-genius professor gone wrong and gone haywire is right on the money, showing the audience how presumptuous scientists of yore could be when presenting their theories about how the world might work.The parents of the main character could have used a little bit more exposure in the meat of the film, and I think the girlfriend might have been a smidgen more proactive, but otherwise, like I say, it's a pretty decent watch.Lots of extras, a good story, good acting, good CGI, give it a whirl on the DVD player.Enjoy.