Only those who desire a paddleball to the kisser or a face full of Mothra snot need apply.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: B+ | May 6, 2011

Monsters Vs. Aliens has plenty of lively animation and a handful of solid jokes. It is not of a caliber of most of the Pixar films, but, at times, it comes close.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Aug 14, 2009

Not only spectacularly well made but frequently very funny.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 10, 2009

Monsters vs Aliens is skilfully animated and spasmodically funny, but you get the impression the film's seven (!) writers ran out of ideas two-thirds of the way through.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Apr 3, 2009

Engagingly nerdy movie in-jokes are clearly a step in the right direction for DreamWorks after the rather crass and bombastic approach of the Shrek movies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2009

It's all very good value, although I have a vague feeling that a gallery of freaky sci-fi creatures, as in Monsters Inc, may not engage the young audience's sympathies as much as humanoids. Great fun, anyway.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2009

The movie never grows a heart, which doesn't stop it trying to tattoo one onto its chest. By the whizz-bang climax inside the alien mothership, I was fidgeting like a four-year-old at Cosi fan tutte.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2009

DreamWorks still has a lot to learn about the superior powers of immersion exerted by a well-told story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2009

Since this is a film for children, we know with virtual certainty that nobody we care about will come to harm. But there's no reason this deft fantasy shouldn't appeal to adults as well.

| Apr 3, 2009

The kids may not get all the references, but theyâ(TM)ll enjoy the spectacular action and broad comedy, especially if they manage to see it in 3D.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 3, 2009

Besides a big heart, it has outstanding 3-D action sequences

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2009

This Easter digimation romp is big on action and slapstick, small on charm, tiny on wit and endurability; unless you are nine, when anything goes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2009

Aficianadoes of 1950s monster movies should have a ball spotting all the references. All anyone else requires is a taste for good fun.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2009

It's the predictable, colourful mix of kiddie-aimed slapstick and wise-cracking adult-aimed one-liners, although for once the life lessons are pleasingly underplayed.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2009

This lively story about a young girl who gets hit by a meteor on her wedding day that turns her into a giant is certainly wacky enough.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2009

Kids will adore the flash 3D visuals, brilliant action sequences and ace sight gags. Mums, dads and others will relish the quickfire dialogue-some of the best we've heard for a while in any film-and the affectionate nods to sci-fi of times past.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2009

As I took off my gray-lensed 3-D spectacles at the end of Monsters vs. Aliens, I felt not so much immersed as fuzzy with exhaustion.

| Mar 30, 2009

It's an affectionate, fairly funny riff on 1950s sci-fi movies, which often featured aliens, sometimes in the form of gelatinous glop, trying to take over Earth before earthlings, usually of the military variety, save the day.

| Original Score: B | Mar 30, 2009

Thanks to some splendid vocal work by its all-star cast and some truly marvelous 3-D effects this family epic is a definite good time, kids and adults alike sure to find plenty to enjoy and little to be disappointed about.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 27, 2009