'Monsters vs. Aliens' from DreamWorks Animation

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First look:
'Monsters vs. Aliens'
is the ultimate; a 3-D 'first'

DreamWorks/Paramount Pictures
Tall as a hotel: Susan (Reese Witherspoon),
toothy Insectosaurus, Dr. Cockroach, Missing Link and B.O.B.

By Susan Wloszczyna
USA TODAY
March 11, 2008

Monsters vs. Aliens is a throwback to those B-movie glory days of the '50s when Martians invaded our backyards and rubber monsters stalked the Earth.

But the DreamsWorks sci-fi spoof, landing March 27, 2009, also transforms a once-tacky Ike-era gimmick into an eye-popping 21st-century experience as the first computer-animated feature to be shot in 3-D.

Studios such as Disney have dimensionalized CGI films, but only after a non-3-D version was made.

DreamWorks, which will preview Monsters for ShoWest exhibitors in Las Vegas today, is commit- ted to doing all its animated releases directly in 3-D from now on. "This isn't our father's 3-D," says the studio's animation chief, Jeffrey Katzenberg. Though it still relies on funny glasses, "the digital projection puts a perfect image on the screen. There is no ghosting, no eye strain or nausea."

To avoid confusion, since computer animation is already called 3-D, he calls it "the Ultimate 3-D."

Monsters tickets will cost more because the process adds about $15 million to a film's budget, but Katzenberg believes audiences will pay for "a premium experience."

That includes hearing Reese Witherspoon as Susan Murphy, a modern-day California girl who has the bad luck to be hit by a meteor on her wedding day and grows to be 49 feet, 11½ inches tall (a wink at 1958's The Attack of the 50-Foot Woman). Captured by the military, she's renamed Ginormica.

"I got very inspired when the studio showed me storyboards," says the 5-foot-2 actress. "Playing a larger-than-life woman has given me my own opportunity to make tall jokes." She also is no stranger to cinematic cheese. "My father was a fan of Roger Corman movies," she says. "I watched a lot of those on late-night TV."

Joining her giantess to fend off Rainn Wilson's evil alien Gallaxhar are Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D. (Hugh Laurie), the jellylike B.O.B. (Seth Rogen) and the half-ape, half-fish Missing Link (Will Arnett). Kiefer Sutherland speaks for Gen. W.R. Monger (get it?), and Stephen Colbert is the president.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/...s-aliens_N.htm

DreamWorks, Imax pact on 3-D, deal includes 'Monsters', 'Panda' - 11/14/07
http://micechat.com/forums/showthrea...onsters+aliens

DreamWorks going 3-D in 2009 - 3/13/07
http://micechat.com/forums/showthrea...nberg+monsters

[Melonballer]

I like what I have heard so far. Stephen Colbert as the president? Best idea in years.