The Reel Rejects - MONSTERS VS. ALIENS (2009) MOVIE REVIEW!!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

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Starting point is 00:01:40 Citizens of the Redignation, it's me, Terran Erickson, alongside Gregory. Alba. Whoa, he did a hand move, and so did I. We are watching Monsters versus aliens. How'd you like that? I loved it. That was great. It was good, right?

Starting point is 00:02:01 I sound like an alien. You guys are going to go at home, go to fall asleep, and you go, I can't get the alien tear a thing out of my head. So you've got to leave a like for that. You got to leave a comment. And you also got to not forget to ring the bell. Whoa. Ring the bell.

Starting point is 00:02:19 That was weird. See, I went to the alien mode for the song, too. So you guys know, wow, I am talented. See, these season is the word for that. Everybody was absolutely going to use that word as well. Thanks also to PrEPA for helping us edit down these videos. Also, if you join Patreon, we call you super sexy. Everybody loves to be called sexy.

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Starting point is 00:06:33 It helps us keep this relationship as well. It benefits you too. Would you think, Tara, Tara? I like the movie, you guys. Get out of town, okay? Now, listen, she comes to find herself and her true nature. She leaves that guy behind. And he's like, I choose to be giant and I support her.

Starting point is 00:06:52 She becomes a strong, independent woman who realizes. is she don't need a man um which you know that's like that's a nice that's a nice fictional message i'm not giant but like i don't need a man right i'm a strong independent woman and um i saw a lot of me and her and i'm sure she saw a lot of her in me yeah um for sure uh the casting was perfect it was really really good i liked all the voices and And, you know, me love me, some Resey. She's so, she's so cute and just the best. Perfectly cast.

Starting point is 00:07:33 So good. And yes, the cameras, the cameras, the shots in this, like the D.P. And the camera angles, whoever did cameras just on this, it's good stuff, good stuff. Long tracking shots, one shots, I always appreciate it. And every movie, I always call that out. If it's a long shot and it's moving, yes, sir, re. I'm into it. Also love, they always shot at Golden Hour.

Starting point is 00:07:58 It is nice and pretty in the background, always except for not always. For most live the part, except for when it was night, and then you could see stars, so they made it pretty at all times, Greg. I was getting there. That's all I got to say, I think. You can just say your opinion now.

Starting point is 00:08:14 What did you not like about it? Let me think. Let me think. Because I really wasn't, I was never, was never really bored. during this uh and i definitely sort of thinking about a lot of other things when i was watching yeah me too i got distracted thinking of like things i need to buy or stuff i need to get done in my life a little bit but like but at the same time i wasn't mad at it i was totally joking were you thinking

Starting point is 00:08:47 was that really how did it did happen with you i can see it happening with you for a moment in time I was like oh you need to get almond milk on the way home and that was it that was it was only that one little thought the rest of the time I was not bored okay I just and I really liked okay I also liked when she does her whole um speech to all of them and like you guys all do these great things uh I like that little moment it was a little hard to heart to when they truly became a family And I really like that. It was super cute. There was nothing that I didn't like that I thought was dumb or didn't make sense.

Starting point is 00:09:31 Right, right. It was all great. It was all good. Yeah, I love the world of this a lot. It's very much an homage to an earlier era of sci-fi movies. It's got kind of that mix of like Incredibles means Megamind. I think DreamWorks animation. I still feel like in a lot.

Starting point is 00:09:52 Like, there's a while where Pixar was the dominant one and DreamWorks was looked at as the secondary one. And maybe that's still as the association just because of the prestige that Pixar has. Right. However, I think, like, DreamWorks more often than not, they really know how to, they really know how to nail it. Like, sometimes their camera work is just so phenomenal. I don't know if there's any, like, how to train your dragon was something that we really love. I love the Kung Fu Panda movies. I love Megamind.

Starting point is 00:10:18 Uh, there's a lot of fantastic, uh, DreamWorks films and I don't know if this one did well or not like part of me really got caught up in that because you notice like oh is this how she gets her hair away I didn't even realize I was the same person and I didn't real and I've seen the poster so many times for monsters versus aliens I don't recall if I've ever seen the trailer for it no I have because I really knew nothing about this movie before going into it other than like I'm assuming it's about monsters and

Starting point is 00:10:46 aliens right I never realized she was giant and even looking at the poster now I'm like Oh, that did not communicate to me. It constantly just looked like a woman, like some... A woman next to like a... Bad-ass action hero. Yeah. And I think the giant part of it completely gets lost on the posters and some of the marketing, unless I'm assuming if you've seen the trailer.

Starting point is 00:11:08 And I feel like that's such an integral thing to communicate that she is one of the monsters. Right. Because she just looked like lead of a bunch of cartooning monsters. Yeah, I agree. And I think that might have helped. I don't know if this movie was a hit or not. But I love you're saying if they changed the poster to make it look like she was a monster, it would have helped. I think it might have effectively communicated.

Starting point is 00:11:29 Like, even for me, it immediately skyrocketed my interest once I realized, oh, she is one of the monsters. Yeah. I thought she was just some like government action hero just based off of images alone. Is there something else after the, no, okay. Yeah, I thought that's what the case might be. Yeah. Um, but I loved, I loved her character, because I found myself very, uh, endeared to her. And I rooted for her. And I, I just love the placement of like our monster is anything but that.

Starting point is 00:12:04 And they don't really like, it's a heroin situation for her, but they don't lean into the darkness in terms of tone for her. They still kept it very lighthearted. Yeah. I still really, I really rooted for her. And I loved our, our core cast of characters. I love the... Who played... Was that Hugh Lorry who played the doctor scientist guy? Yeah, that sounds probably right, right?

Starting point is 00:12:29 Yeah, it is. Okay, the Dr. Cockroach, yeah. I thought he was great out of the four. He was my second favorite. And I liked... I liked the missing link, Will Arnett's voice work. I did kind of... Like, I love them all, their chemistry,

Starting point is 00:12:46 and I love their personalities. I did feel like Link could have used a couple of more things that demonstrated his prowess for the situations at hand, so they felt more like an essential group, kind of like a guardian to the Galaxy to the Suicide Squad, where you do see the necessity for each one of them. Yeah. And Link was one that if there are moments there,

Starting point is 00:13:14 but I think that's the stuff that is the easiest to, overlook or not really remember because he didn't really get as many truly shiny moments that zero in on what necessitates him as part of the core group. Right. But I like the voice work. Seth Rogen as Bob would kind of go up and down for me of whether or not it was funny or not. Yeah. But sometimes he was super duper funny.

Starting point is 00:13:38 But overall, I just really like the science fiction world that inhabits and the overall heart that this movie has and and yeah the way this film is shot every every frame just feels so composed there's like a wonderful throwback music uh throughout and yeah it's just like overall science fiction flair and the other thing that i did find myself craving as well i like the gal i thought galaxy star had some funny moments that i thought rift on some cliches like i love the whole bit or his telling his backstory yeah that was that was very full When they're making fun of, like, how villains just monologues their backstory out of nowhere. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:14:19 I thought that was hilarious. Rain Wilson, perfect voice work for that character. Very good. A lot of times, characters who get, like, multiple eyes often just see in the same direction. So I like how they really pay the attention to the details. Oh, right. Like, they're moving around different, yeah. Yeah, you can see it, like, observing different things at once.

Starting point is 00:14:38 And sometimes they do work in unity. I did think, though, that as much as he's, like, intergalactic genius. again that was something that I feel like they could have fleshed out a little bit more so that way we I think that's when I was I wasn't checking out necessarily but I I did like the at the times I was having the most fun and found this the most exciting was before they got on his ship yeah agreed before the team got there because I weirdly felt like this is when the stakes should be the most ramped up but they're kind of getting through things in a and kind of just a funny, quick way, and I'm losing some of the threat of Galaxar. Yeah, because remember the very first thing, I was like, that was quick. When they got the gun, they killed the guy. And they're like, thanks for saving me, guys. I was like, oh, okay.

Starting point is 00:15:31 I'll give you one joke. I'll give you like one joke, fine. But then it was like, that's kind of just how, like, oh, the brain, how are we going to do is I'm going to do a dance off thing. You know, like, I just kind of kept going through it quickly. And so I thought the threat level of him. which when you're calling it monsters versus aliens, I think they really could have used a little bit more of the threat of the aliens side. But in terms of them attempted, was there a sequel to, do you know, Tara?

Starting point is 00:15:59 I don't know. I don't know anything, really. Sequel? Let's just type it in. I don't know. Secret? The film started a franchise with a video game. And I could see that being the case.

Starting point is 00:16:13 because there were parts of it that felt like video game levels and the way they worked as a team and I don't know what the game looks like I'm learning this for the first time right now but I could if you tell me they made a video game like yeah I absolutely could see that because there were parts that totally reminded me of a video game

Starting point is 00:16:28 but I imagine what they were trying to do was set up a franchise and like a Marvel movie or a number of superhero films when you're setting up the team it's like yeah I really like the protagonist I really like the core characters they got a great back and forth their team of misfit

Starting point is 00:16:43 and I love them coming to get her. Villains a little weak, but the main core characters and maybe they can improve upon the villains in a sequel. And that's kind of where I'm sitting here is like, that was the vibe the movie left me with. But I feel like that's what DreamWorks does, because DreamWorks make Madagascar, right? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:16:59 I've been watching that with John. And my main complaint is that DreamWorks doesn't really hit it hard. They always keep it kind of light, and there's not enough like heart or villainous danger. That's true. That one. Ooh, that got me. That was like amazing.

Starting point is 00:17:15 But in the Madagascar and in this one, I mean, we do get a heart like a little bit there when she's given the talk to them and she's, I like that she found out on her own that Derek is a jerk, right? She just kind of sits there and is like, no one had to tell her or convince her or be like, hey, girl, listen up. He's a jerk and he's selfish. Like she just realized it on her own, which I really like that character development for her. character specifically. I really enjoyed

Starting point is 00:17:45 that. And I liked that part. That part was like, had heart and some emotion in it, which was cool. The rest of it was like, yeah, it's just kind of like light and airy is I feel like how DreamWorks does it, which I... Have you seen Kung Fu Panda? Yes. A long time ago, I don't think I've seen... Is there multiple?

Starting point is 00:18:06 The second one's my favorite. And the second one gets a lot like that. The second one, it slaps hard. Really? Yeah, yeah. They go there with some shit. See, those are the kind of films I like, like, hit it hard, make me feel some stuff. Have you not seen, have you seen Make a Mind? I don't think so. Pretty, no, I get it. Like, like, I fell off the Ice Age franchise pretty early on.

Starting point is 00:18:30 Yeah. I mean, I stopped Shrek after Shrek three. So, no, I get it. Like, there's a lot of dream worst movies I just have completely skipped. Yeah, like, if you can't pull me in with the emotions and, like, the. plot line that I'm not, I'm, I'm thinking about almond milk, you know, but I was very much connected to, uh, what was her, Susan? Susan, yes.

Starting point is 00:18:53 And it's really cool because they didn't, they didn't really set her up. A lot of times in these movies, what, what they'll do is, all right, let's give Susan some, like, terrible personal life beforehand. And they didn't really give her like this, sure, she was clearly marrying a narcissist, but that was about it, um, which is not good, but they didn't do this whole thing. were like her parents disapprove of her or she's had some traumatic backstory or some bullshit, right?

Starting point is 00:19:16 Right. They kept it relatively simple and the pain inflicted on her is the tragedy of having the meteorite, you know, take over her body and become this child. So I thought like making that the wound for her to deal with

Starting point is 00:19:33 was made it very compelling that also thrust the plot forward. So I was very much connected to her. Like when she's trying to run away during the city and is scared and then she starts finding her strength naturally from protecting these people. I thought it was like that was such an amazing sequence to me. I thought that entire sequence, both visually and emotionality-wise, and the way they

Starting point is 00:19:53 capture the scale and the scope of everything, I thought was excellent. Even when she's sort of becoming more embracing the monster when she's attacking Galacosaur or whatever his name is, the way how they switch that where he's running away from her. Yeah, to the point of view where she now is the monster. Yeah, I thought that was excellent. Yeah. So, yeah, and I really, I really loved all that.

Starting point is 00:20:15 And, and I forgot what the, like, I was doing that thing where I'm talking and I'm, like, giving a lot of praise so that way I could lead into some other criticism I had. And he forgot. I completely forgot what the criticism was. He forgot. He thinks it's perfect. Yeah. I mean, the movie, I really thought it was great.

Starting point is 00:20:30 Yeah. I really did. I wonder what the, I wonder what the critic score is on. They did a great job, especially when she finally gets to the bridge. Yeah. And the way that she becomes a hero. is by saving people, which is great that, you know, it wasn't just saving her friends, like the monsters.

Starting point is 00:20:46 It was like, oh, these people are in danger, and she is now choosing to be, not even choosing with her realizing it, but she's now a monster who's going to become a hero. Yeah. Her friends are going to only want to be on her team because she's shown so much strength and bravery that they didn't really have until she got there. And I think she's only raised them up

Starting point is 00:21:11 And now they're gonna go kick some butt But they didn't make another one so Yeah man That that was great special effects Surprisingly low audience score Yeah it was pretty low 59% people didn't really love it very much That's surprisingly low for this movie

Starting point is 00:21:26 I feel like a lot of more love Has come around for it Yeah maybe that's just Well it does say 250,000 rate Yeah it's true There's a lot of people That's insane. That's a lot of people writing this movie.

Starting point is 00:21:40 Interesting. I wonder, I wonder why. Bossers versus aliens, a box office. I wanted to see if this was a hit. It did pretty well. Oh, good. They doubled the budget. How did it not get a sequel?

Starting point is 00:21:54 Hmm. Because people didn't like it. Or they just, well, it became a TV show. They said. They turned it into a video game and then also a TV show. And apparently insecticide. is not in it, and people are like, why is no secto in it? I read that while you were scrolling.

Starting point is 00:22:13 I'm a quick reader. Okay, so, I mean, I don't know. But anyway, no. Who knows? I think it's the worldwide growth, so it's not enough. Oh. Yeah, so maybe. Oh, worldwide?

Starting point is 00:22:25 That was just, yeah, if it was just domestic, yeah. No, that's not good enough. But, no, the fan base has definitely come around for it. But overall, no, I mean, I still really enjoyed it. And from the imagery I would see from posters, and whatever little screenshots I would catch, I thought the visuals were way. Like, I was never really drawn to seeing this movie

Starting point is 00:22:44 because I would see like a poster or something and I was like, this looks like too kiddie for me. Yeah, I agree. I was surprised by how visually striking the movie actually was and how good the special effects were. Yeah. Like, that was the main thing that was, I thought this was going to look like so bad.

Starting point is 00:23:01 But, yeah, that was surprising. But in terms of being like a sci-fi comedy, I think like it made me loud. plenty for a family film surprisingly crass humor at times and for sci-fi and animated movie I thought they really leaned into a lot of great imaged. Oh, I like the general guy too. I thought it was

Starting point is 00:23:17 Yeah, that was Kiefer. That was Keefer. That was Keefer. I knew it right away because I love him and I love that show 24. I was watching that when I was like six. That's when that show came out when I was six. Sure. I was six. You keep telling the cast and directors who watch this that that's the reality of situation. I'm only

Starting point is 00:23:35 22. I have so many youthful years left Um anyway We should stop joking about your age Yeah I see it's starting to get to you Is it? Yeah I mean

Starting point is 00:23:49 I feel fine right now Yeah Okay The only one getting to me Is me I mean Terry you look great Thank you Dot dot dot dot

Starting point is 00:24:01 I wore purple today For your age Yeah Exactly Okay Listen, do you have anything more to say? Yeah, guys. I would give this movie a 7 out of 10.

Starting point is 00:24:13 Oh, really? I bump it to like a 7.85. Look at him go. Look at him thriving. He's flying. He's flying. 7.8. I'm going to stick.

Starting point is 00:24:23 What did I say? A 7. I said a 7. It was 10 seconds went by and I already was like, what? These are issues that I have to deal with and that you also have to deal with if you're watching this or listen. on Apple or Spotify. Close us out. Yeah. Okay. Great. We love you. Leave a like. Leave a comment. Be cool, nice, kind.

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