The monster: The original prehistoric beast awakened by nuclear weapons testing, Gojira symbolized the destructive force of nuclear war post-Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After experimenting with different ...

"Monsters vs. Aliens" cheerfully converts the two major sources of cinematic terror invaders from outer space and inhuman, ungodly terrestrial creatures into wacky ...

The first group: Eight-year-olds in black-plastic 3-D horn-rims. My own personal representative accompanied me to the screening, and I must say, his periodic, machine-gun peals of laughter proved at ...

The first trailer for DreamWorks Animation's Monsters vs Aliens has hit the web today. Years ago, the government started a special program to put together a ragtag team of monsters for our own ...

Monsters vs. Aliens is Dreamworks’ latest and greatest animated feature. Monsters vs. Aliens also has the distinction of being the next in a successful line of 3-D features that are returning ...

The 1950s saw the rise of cinematic mutated monsters, reflecting post-war anxieties about nuclear weapons and science. Many believe that The Blob, a 1958 film about a carnivorous alien blob, was ...

Science fiction monsters are rarely elegant. While we all love menacing aliens in films like Independence Day or Alien, the vast majority of monsters, no matter how iconic, all end up feeling sort of ...

What are the secret ingredients for making a giant super woman? An ordinary girl and a dollop of quantonium. When Susan Murphy (Reese Witherspoon) unexpectedly gets clobbered by this green-space goo, ...

"Monsters vs. Aliens," the first of DreamWorks Animation's promised rollout of nothing but 3-D movies, is a jokey, action-packed movie that demonstrates what 3-D can do for animation -- and perhaps ...

I knew magnetic putty is a hungry gross thing that likes to eat stuff, but this doesn’t look like magnetic putty at all. This looks like a hungry alien monster blindly looking to suck on some food (a ...

The concept is higher than the execution in “Monsters vs. Aliens,” a funny enough animated faceoff between some famous monsters of filmland and would-be conquerors of Planet Earth. More congenial and ...