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Monsters vs. Aliens

Monsters vs. Aliens
A teenage girl standing tall with three monsters in front of her and a cityscape behind her.
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Conrad Vernon
Rob Letterman
Produced by Lisa Stewart
Screenplay by Maya Forbes
Wallace Wolodarsky
Rob Letterman
Jonathan Aibel
Glenn Berger
Story by
  • Rob Letterman
  • Conrad Vernon
Starring Reese Witherspoon
Seth Rogen
Hugh Laurie
Will Arnett
Kiefer Sutherland
Rainn Wilson
Paul Rudd
Stephen Colbert
Music by Henry Jackman
Edited by Joyce Arrastia
Eric Dapkewicz
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • March 27, 2009 (2009-03-27)
Running time
94 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $175 million
Box office $381.5 million
Monsters vs. Aliens: Music from the Motion Picture
Film score by Henry Jackman
Released March 24, 2009
Genre Score
Length 65:52
Label Lakeshore

Monsters vs. Aliens is a 2009 American 3D computer-animated science fiction comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was DreamWorks Animation's first feature film to be directly produced in a stereoscopic 3-D format instead of being converted into 3-D after completion, which added $15 million to the film's budget.

The film was scheduled for a May 2009 release, but the release date was moved to March 27, 2009. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray September 29, 2009 in North America. The film features the voices of Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen, Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett, Kiefer Sutherland, Rainn Wilson, Paul Rudd, and Stephen Colbert.

It grossed over $381 million worldwide on a $175 million budget. Although not successful enough to be followed by a sequel, the film started a franchise consisting of a short film, B.O.B.'s Big Break, two television specials, Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space and Night of the Living Carrots, and a television series with the same name.

Susan Murphy (Reese Witherspoon) of Modesto, California is going to be married to news weatherman Derek Dietl (Paul Rudd). But before the ceremony, she gets hit by a meteorite and its energy causes her to grow uncontrollably during the ceremony. As a side-effect, her hair turns white. She is tranquilized by the military and awakens in a top secret government facility that houses monsters without human knowledge. She meets the warden W.R. Monger, and fellow inmates: Dr. Cockroach P.H.D (Hugh Laurie)., a mad scientist who became half cockroach after an experiment; B.O.B. (Benzoate Ostylezene Bicarbonate) (Seth Rogen), a brainless, living mass of goo as a result of a food flavoring mutation; Insectosaurus, a mutated bug standing at 350 feet in height, and The Missing Link (Will Arnett), a prehistoric fish man who was thawed from deep ice. Susan herself has been renamed to Ginormica.


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