Movie review – “Monsters vs Aliens” (2009) ***1/2

All Pixar movies are good and this one is no exception. It’s especially fun if you’re a fun of the 50s sci fi films, which inspire the heroes to this – to wit, the Amazing 50 Foot Woman, The Blob, The Creature from The Black Lagoon and Mothra. My favourite of the versions here is lovable Insectosaurus, although I did like the Gigantic Woman. (It’s a shame there weren’t more creatures – I think the film could have supported three more, making it like The Magnificent Seven.) Plenty of action and smart humour, though as usual a lot of it feels like a video game. My main gripe – surely more should have been made of the fact that humans locked away the monsters for so long, then are expected to save humanity?