Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)
- cosy
- kinetic
- inventive
- redemptive
Cosy, breathless, measured animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →When Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches. The military jumps into action and captures Susan, secreting her away to a covert government compound. She is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group of Monsters...
Our read · Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) (2009) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · family · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Monsters vs. Aliens
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“You want silly giant monsters fighting aliens with family laughs and action.”
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