Planet 51
I’m not going to mess around and sugar coat this review. Planet 51 could have been a pretty funny movie but it just isn’t and I’ll tell you why…
An astronaut goes to a new planet and finds it inhabited by ‘aliens’ but how about we view it from the ‘aliens’ point of view, i.e. flipping it on it’s head so the human’s are the aliens, seems a pretty good idea. I can imagine some one pitching that idea to me for a movie and I would think ‘I can see where the comedy would be in that situation’…I wish the film makers for Planet 51 could have only realized that.’ because that’s the set up for the movie.
What they’ve done though is produced a movie that is so busy trying to poke fun at other movies it ends up missing the fun in itself. There are a lot of references to the 50s era and sci-fi movies including the standard E.T. reference – how many times has that been done, it was funny the first few times but it’s now old and boring. That one reference sums up the whole movie for me, there are some funny moments but in general it just all feels a little tired, unoriginal and uninspiring. The comedy should have come more from the situation, who’s the alien? what’s/who’s normal?, etc, etc. There were a couple of times they did this and these were the funny scenes.
Overall a movie that tries too hard to be funny and in doing so isn’t!
5
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