Planet 51..Something strange is coming to their planet…Us!
I must admit ‘s trailer was a lot of kicks and many especially the kids were waiting for its slated run. But halfway into the flick I realized that “Humans” were treated as the meanies so to speak..well, in a way that is true and seems to be the trend these days with alien flicks.
For me it was an okay flick meaning a good entertainment flick for the whole family. No deep undertones nor heavy merchandising..just pure LOLs! The 60′s theme was reminiscent of Back To The Future (Michael J. Fox era), a great laid out concept which explains the “pureness” of Planet 51 citizens.
Anyway, there were a lot of reference to other sci-fi flicks like Star Wars (light sabers), dialogue from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and The Terminator and TriStar Pictures’ s previous movie District 9 which made this flick ver y entertaining indeed!
Plot
Lem is just an average teenager working on getting the girl and furthering his career at the local planetarium – except that he’s an alien. At least to U.S. astronaut Captain Charles T. Baker who lands on Lem’s planet hoping for a quick flag plant and a hasty return to earth and his millions of screaming fans. But on this alien planet the media has tagged spacemen as brain-eating, zombie-creating monsters, causing Baker to run for his life and into Lem’s house. Now it’s up to the green native to get the clumsy astronaut back to his spaceship before military dictator General Grawl and mad scientist Professor Kipple manage to exterminate the Earthly visitor. Written by
is an animated film directed by Jorge Blanco, written by and starring , , , , and . Produced by Madrid-based and for $70 million, it was acquired for US distribution by in November 2007. Planet 51 was released on November 20, 2009, by Worldwide via . It was originally titled Planet One, but re-named Planet 51. Planet 51 is the most expensive movie produced in .
