Monsters VS Aliens (3D)

Susan, an everyday girl, is minutes away from her dream wedding when she is struck by an asteroid that turns her into 40 ft tall, "Ginormica".  The government takes her to a secret base where she and other monsters are kept out of the public's sight.  When aliens attack Earth in search of the same powerful substance that created Ginormica, and our weapons don't work against them, the government releases the monsters on the aliens and the chaos ensues. 

Dreamworks continues to be second fiddle to Pixar in the animation arena.  This is a moderately fun movie, with a couple of laughs here and there, but there's just no heart to it.  Something I seem to say after every Dreamworks Animation movie.  There's been the exceptions, with Prince of Egypt, Shrek, Over the Hedge and maybe Kung Fu Panda, but they're far from going 10 for 10 as Pixar is expected to do in two weeks with "Up" (early reviews are off the charts.)  That said, the character design and rendering of Dreamworks continues to be top notch.  Very original look to the characters, it's fun eye candy.  The 3D element is distracting at first but once you get used to it, it adds loads of depth to the movie.  It's really pretty cool, some parts you really feel like you could reach out and touch what's on screen.  And they don't have a lot of scenes where things pointlessly come out of the screen at your face just to show you they can do it.  I think just one scene at the very beginning is like that and I think it's to remind you it's 3D, the rest is pretty fun and adds to the experience.  The voice cast does a good job and is well cast, specifically Seth Rogan as Bob the blob.  The writing just could've been stepped up a notch.

** out of 4 - Rentable (unless you want to experience the 3D, otherwise just wait and see Up in 3D.)