Independently and internationally produced CG animated comedy Planet 51 has the visuals to compare with bigger budgeted Hollywood studio offerings but not the storytelling spark.
Planet 51 (2009)
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Reviews Counted:60
Fresh:10
Rotten:50
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: Planet 51 squanders an interesting premise with an overly familiar storyline, stock characters, and humor that alternates between curious and potentially offensive.
Genre: Childrens
Synopsis: The tables are turned in this animated sci-fi adventure featuring the voices of Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Seann William Scott, Gary Oldman, and John Cleese. In PLANET 51, an... The tables are turned in this animated sci-fi adventure featuring the voices of Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Seann William Scott, Gary Oldman, and John Cleese. In PLANET 51, an astronaut arrives on a distant planet, but he's not alone; he's surrounded by aliens who desperately fear invasion by...aliens. [More]
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Seann William Scott
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Seann William Scott, Gary Oldman, John Cleese
Director: Jorge Blanco
Director: Jorge Blanco
Screenwriter: Joe Stillman
Producer: Ignacio Perez Dolset, Guy Collins
Studio: New Line Cinema
Reviews for Planet 51
A tale of human/alien friendship, Planet 51 seems worse than it is because it comes at the end of one of the best years in the history of animation.
An uninspired computer-animated feature that may satisfy undiscriminating pipsqueaks and nearly no one else, Planet 51 is a low-IQ E.T. in reverse...
Planet 51 doesn't have enough plot for a 10-minute animated short, much less a 90-minute feature. And unfortunately, what it does have plenty of is crude, lowest-common denominator humor.
Young children and adults with high pain thresholds will enjoy the movie during its brief pause on the way to your On Demand menu.
dull and lifeless, moving inertly from point to point without offering much that's memorable or amusing
Doesn't belong anywhere near the best animated picture race, but you can do a lot worse when looking for a family flick to pass the time.
If this had been released on Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day, it wouldn't have been lost in the shuffle.
After positing its central gimmick, it more or less stands there for 90 minutes, waiting for applause that never comes.
It's cute, it's passable, the animation is fine--but the major problem with the film is its predictability.
So trivial and unimaginative that, unless you're desperate for sci-fi diversion for the kids, you should wait for the dvd.
... characters are as thin and unengaging as the animation is sleek and shiny.
It works for about 20 minutes. And only if you grew up in the 1950s to juke boxes filled with rock and roll including Sheb Wooley's The Purple People Eater
An often amusing, harmless adventure with enough inoffensive humor and impressive CGI animation to make up for its lack of exhilarating moments and refreshing surprises.
A trite compendium of everything that's wrong with non-Pixar computer-animated feature films.
This sharp-looking but unimaginative adventure hasn't the wit of similar kiddie flicks.
If you've seen Space Chimps, you can expect the same level of quality. It's not excruciating, but it's entirely forgettable.
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November 19, 2009:
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