I had been waiting to see this movie since I heard about it. Mom knew this and rented it for the family to watch together. I hit play thinking, "Boy, I can't wait to see a good clean PG-rated movie!" HA! I don't like the direction the media has been taking with, well, with everything! I'm sick and tired of putting in a PG or even G-rated movie and it being dirtier than a PG-13 movie I saw the night before. This movie had such potential. It was hilarious besides the adult jokes in a movie meant for 7-year-olds. I don't even think adults should hear those jokes. I don't really care so much whether or not a movie's original, as long as it's good. I'm easily amused anyway. I'm one of those people who can last a year on a piece of string. So rarely do I give anything 3 stars unless it just makes me upset. Hollywood, stop making dirty kid's movies! You're infesting and twisting the minds of every child, no, person on earth! It's even getting in MY head. I still count as a kid, you know. I don't know if I want the DVD or not anymore. Besides all that, this movie wasn't the best I've seen in a while, but it was still good. My advice, buy Veggietales movies. They're Christian, kid-safe comedy that's so funny, I'll watch them if I live to be 200 years old.
Oh... wow, this was B.A.D. I try to give Dwane Johnson some slack, but wow.. wow wow wow. I couldn't keep my head faced towrd the screen. All I liked was the fact they pointed out that humans can be aliens too...
Yet another "kid" movie-- Planet 51 is a good idea poorly laid out. Although it's targeted at a younger audience, it's filled with crude and often suggestive humor. Don't waste your time on this.
We watched this movie on Netflix and I found that it was pretty tame. It was moderately entertaining but nothing that we would purchase to watch again. I watched it with my 12 year old who liked it a little better than me and my 3 year old who got bored and ran off after about 20 minutes.
Another unimaginative animation. A cookie cutter, appeal to the lowest common intelligence level movie. It didn't know what it wanted to be a seemed cut and pasted. The adult references were obscure even for the adults.....:"singing in the rain?" I'm 46 and that was still before my time. Just a dumb, dumb, waste of money
This could've been a fun, family movie, but they really blew it with all the double entendre and several positively unsettling moments in the movie. It starts out with a couple of alien teens "parking" in the moonlight. Also, watch out for the remark later about the "duck". Worst of all, when the American astronaut stands up from an operating room table and his only clothing, a towel, falls off, nothing is shown, but a completely tasteless, tacky and vulgar remark is made. (I'm sure that was supposed to be a big laugh moment, but it was so over-the-top out of place, we just sat there in stunned silence.) This movie had it's moments and was cute around the edges and may be o.k. for older teens, much older, but it is no kids movie. I repeat, IT IS NO KIDS MOVIE!!! I won't take the time to discuss what could've possibly been the underlying political-social-spiritual themes implied by the abundance of head-in-the sand aliens, (aliens to us,) who thought that their small "five hundred miles" broad universe revolved around them. (The producers of this movie seem to be very unhappy about the idea of traditionalism and listening to your parents.) It's such a shame that you can't watch a PG cartoon with your children these days. We will not buy the blu ray!
This was a silly movie. I enjoyed the take-offs on movie favorites, like WALL-E and Singing in the Rain. I did not find it offensive. I actually found it pretty tame.
I was quite disappointed in this movie. I took my two sons, ages 9 and 5. They only laughed / chuckled maybe twice throughout the entire show. There were also several references that I would rather not have them see or hear in a children's movie. There are several, although vaugue, references to anal probing. One character uses the word "freakin'." Also, during a scene where the astronaut is naked, one of the "aliens" says "that's a funny place for your antenna." I would recommend this movie as a rental - but it's not worth the money spent at the theatre.
I think the violence was a little too much for the younger crowd (if they would even pay attention to it). There is firepower with weapons and two aliens are disintegrated by guns. Plus a later scene where a bunch are shooting at each other and then electrocute themselves (my husband found that part funny...at least). That is my main concern with the movie. The anal probing is a little overdone, but at a certain age they just think that is what to expect of aliens and I don't think most kids would think sexually about it. As for the penis joke, I didn't like it because it was haphazardly thrown in during what should be an emotional peak in the movie (the astronaut had just been rescued from having his brain removed). Past that, I wouldn't cringe from any age seeing this part of the movie. Boys have penises, get over it. It wasn't sexual, nothing about sex was mentioned. It was an obscure reference that there is something different down there. I'm assuming most little boys already know they have something there and any girl with a little brother knows too. After all that, there were some cute parts and I liked Rover. I've seen worse...
I was really dissapointed with this movie. I did not check the rating before I let my son watch this since I assumed an animated movie would be safe. But when my 6 year old mentioned a "funny place for an antenna" I researched it and discovered the other sexual themes. It's really difficult to teach your child about appropriate behavior and potentially dangerous situations when cartoons make light of them. I wouldn't recommend this movie at all, but if it were the only thing on, only to kids 13 and up.
A so-so kids' movie, with little to entertain adults
This movie tries hard to pack in gags for adults -- from its constant references to more famous films to a handful of off-color jokes that fly way over kids' heads -- but it's just mild family entertainment. Even with a handful of jokes that try to be risqué, it's pretty hard to find anything in this movie to get excited about. The story, the characters, and the laughs are all remarkably bland. Kids might giggle here and there; Rover, in particular, is cutely amusing. Some of the background design is actually kind of neat, with distinctively rounded architecture and engineering (even books have keyhole-like shapes) but that's precious little to keep grown-ups from checking their watches. "Planet 51" is mostly harmless and fairly forgettable.