Monsters vs. Aliens

Monsters vs. Aliens
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	DreamWorks Animation
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 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.