Monsters vs. Aliens

Mention ‘3-D’, and you immediately visualise cardboard glasses with green and red-coloured cellophane for lenses. This is what Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of Dreamworks Animation, describes as ‘the vinyl era’ and it is light-years behind Monsters vs. Aliens. This is the first animated movie to be produced in real 3-D from the first storyboard. Those cardboard glasses are gone, replaced with polarised lenses, and most of the blurring has disappeared along with them. The plotline is classic fun – monsters defending earth from an alien invasion – with apt references to E.T. and the Axel F theme. Superb casting features the voices of Hugh Laurie as a doctor-turned-cockroach and Will Arnett as a slimy, sleezy monster. Monsters vs. Aliens will be released worldwide from March 2009. (Trischelle Roberts)