Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

adonis98-743-186503 An alien civilization is invaded by Astronaut Chuck Baker, who believes that the planet was uninhabited. Wanted by the military, Baker must get back to his ship before it goes into orbit without him. Planet 51 has a great and talented voice cast, good animation, jokes and an overall interesting concept that works plus some cool references to Alien and Terminator. The Characters are interesting and likable especially the main ones and the movie as a whole it's better than it gets credit for. (10/10)

tns1 This is a total laugh, with all those B movies in the Fifties, people chased by Stawberry jam almost. This movie draws on this and the paranoid of the time. We sit there watching the film and enjoying the in jokes along the way. When will there be a part two in the 1960's ? Without giving away too much, enjoy a reverse universe time travel and let's pray there's intelligent life up there.

Wizard-8 At least one major critic said that "Planet 51" was a one-joke movie, and I agree with that statement. Though the movie tries to reverse things by changing around the roles, it otherwise plays like movies about aliens visiting earth. The movie does try hard to have a sense of humor about the situation, but I didn't laugh, except for the part of the movie where a cover of "Greased Lighting" plays with sanitized lyrics. Another fault I found with the movie were the characters were pretty thin and one-note. As for the visual look of the movie, the art design and the animation is serviceable, but is notably missing the polish found in Pixar and other big budget Hollywood computer animated movies. Still, I feel that (young) kids may find the juvenile feel of the movie appealing, and will not feel that they've seen it all before somewhere, because they probably haven't. However, they won't understand the references to other (and better) science fiction movies.

fred-m-stabs Please disregard RichardSRussell-1's review, I am not sure he watched the movie, at least not with very much attention. First, he states "humans as the bad guys" but the only human was the movie's good guy! The military general was the bad guy, and even a four year old could easily see that. Second, I'm not sure if he is familiar with movies playing on themes and paying homage to other movies, stories, and so forth. That's not ripping off, but that reviewer obviously can't even grasp that concept. Countless movies, perhaps most of them, will include scenes and lines deliberately intended to make reference other works – this is not plagiarism, it's paying homage! There has not been a single children's animated movie with this particular theme, not even close (at least no movie or major work). Yes, it is essentially a reverse E.T. and builds on many, many other movies that have come before. But the overall work is not a copy of anything else.It's a play on the common movie theme, and popular attitude in the 1950's, that all aliens must be terrifying monsters and the civic paranoia and fear that follows the suggestion of an alien visitor. Given that, it *has* to copy themes and images and possibly even lines from other movies. That's the whole point.Having seen almost every kid's animated movie out there, I found this movie to be very enjoyable and I loved seeing it. More importantly (at least if you're a parent) my kids loved this movie, and they don't like every kid's movie. It may not be the greatest movie of all time, but I would definitely recommend it and a great watch.