# Monsters vs. Aliens

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-vs-aliens/491017>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 27, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-vs-aliens/491017 "2009-03-27T18:11:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-vs-aliens/491017/21 "2009-03-30T15:31:51Z")

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> Leave it to the horror movie purist nerd to point that out!

My wife and I were the only ones laughing at that point, I think. Which probably shows:

a.) why I married her

b.) why there weren’t more jokes like this in the film.

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**Author:** ![Airblairxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Airblairxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airblairxxx)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-vs-aliens/491017/22 "2009-03-30T18:30:36Z")

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> [@sandra\_nz](#):
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> As a movie, it’s pretty average.
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> The thing I find about Dreamworks animated movies, as that they use quite a lot of anachronistic humour, in that a character will suddenly start talking like a black person and hey, isn’t that funny. Or slapstick comedy which doesn’t really have a plot point (for example, the access to the brain, for those that have seen it)
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> I find Pixar make much more satisfying and funny movies. Comparing this to Wall-E is like comparing Cheez Whix to a mature Cheddar.

I’m with you on all of this. I was also hardly overwhelmed by it. It seems that the Dreamworks animated movies peaked with Shrek and have gone downhill since then, while Pixar (IMHO) puts out quality every time.

The only impressive thing about this was the cast. I mean, it seemed like it had everybody working in comedy today. Seth Rogen. Paul Rudd. Steven Colbert. Will Arnett and Amy Poehler. Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, and Ed Helms. Then add Kiefer Sutherland and Reese Witherspoon.

(FTR, I only saw it in 2D, because my kids are difficult enough in movie theaters without having to wear glasses.)

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**Author:** ![wonder9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c57346/32.png) [@wonder9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonder9)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monsters-vs-aliens/491017/23 "2009-04-01T22:14:05Z")

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I saw it 2D today and was completely underwhelmed. My worst fears for 3D were realized. Too much of the movie looks like it was created just for the 3D effect, story and characters be damned. No WALL-E, not even Bolt which had at least a bunch of laugh out loud moments. It’s like the movies that are written just for the theme park. This is why Pixar is king. Story telling trumps techno wizardry every time in my book.

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