Mind Your Business: Reviewing Monsters vs. Aliens
Marty Sherman, another captive adult in our group, loved all the scenes with the President, voiced by Stephen Colbert. Sherman found the character, and all the scenes in the War Room, very clever, while the kids loved his slapstick. If you are a fan of Colbert's Tek Jansen series, you have an idea of how he plays this character.
But Sherman was also the sharp-eyed captive of our group. He noticed one of the great insider visual gags in the movie. I won't give it away, but General W. R. Monger (voiced by Kiefer Sutherland, of all people) has something other than a pin of an eagle on his chest. Animation fans will approve of this. (The first person to post this hidden gem wins the "eagle eye" award.)
There is some political commentary, but it is kept light and very funny. My favorite line was by the Missing Link, voiced by Will Arnett, whose character had been frozen for more than 20,000 years and then was locked away by the government for 50 more years. "It feels hotter. Is it getting hotter? That would be a convenient TRUTH to know." Al Gore should be proud.
The movie's website has lots of great extra's (MonstersVsAliens.com), including movie clips and behind the scenes material. I was fascinated by watching Damon O-Beirne, head of layout, use a hand-held camera to move the virtual camera in the animation to layout the shots and track performances. Plus, if you kept the 3-D glasses that were handed out for the Super Bowl promo, you can watch the trailer in 3-D and it looks MUCH better on a computer monitor than it did during the big game.
After watching the disastrously terrible 3-D movie Journey to the Center of the Earth on our interstellar viewing device, I was afraid for the future of 3-D. Now, seeing how the effect can be used by true masters, Monsters vs. Aliens has excited me. Jeffrey Katzenberg said he wanted to showcase the new generation of 3-D and all the bells and whistles with Monsters vs. Aliens. He has done that and DreamWorks has saved the future of 3-D.
Mark Simon is an award-winning animation producer/director and speaker. He owns Animatics & Storyboards, Inc., A&S Animation, Inc. and is co-founder of SellYourTvConceptNow.com, the ultimate resource for TV show creators. He is offering AWN readers a FREE MONTH of his TV Pitch Tips Audio Postcards. Go to TvPitchTips.com and register for your weekly audio postcards of insider Hollywood pitch tips, tricks and secrets.
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3D technology and 3d experience is awesome, but god damn 3d glasses are very uncomfortable and make everyone feel weird. I think there should be something else to replace 3D glasses, maybe if they would cover the screen with 3D film that they utilize in 3D glasses it would solve this problem, and athe problem with recycling used glasses. Peter- consumer electronics, gps software and gps accessories specialist.
layout and animation which describes the motion and placement of objects within a scene, and 3D rendering which produces an image of an object.
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I know that the process of creating 3D computer graphics can be sequentially divided into three basic phases: 3D modeling which describes the process of forming the shape of an object, layout and animation which describes the motion and placement of objects within a scene, and 3D rendering which produces an image of an object.
I have to say I really enjoyed the movie. The animation was awesome and the storyline was pretty cool too... oh and funny
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I was amazed. For my 4.5 years daughter it was 4th movie experience and the first one where she sat through the whole movie without getting bored in the middle and asking to go for a walk. For my almost 3 year old son it was 1st time and the movie was able to hold his attention till the very end as well. And, I got a lot of questions from my children coming during and after the movie and the next day.
Yes, not a lot of belly laughs for me or for my children (understandably) but most of it I watched with the smile on my face and the warm feeling in my heart.
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