Monsters vs. Aliens is an upcoming 2009 computer-animated 3-D feature film from DreamWorks Animation. The release date was moved up to prevent competition with James Cameron’s upcoming Avatar. This will be the first computer animated movie which will be produced in real 3-D instead of converting the film into 3-D after it is finished, which will add $15 million extra to the film’s budget. The trailer was seen with the movie Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. The film is scheduled for a March 27, 2009 release. The film is rated PG for “Sci-fi Action, Some Crude Humor, and Mild Language.”
Monsters vs. Aliens is starring the voices of Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Hugh Laurie, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Rainn Wilson with Stephen Colbert and Kiefer Sutherland.
Plot
When California resident Susan Murphy (Reese Witherspoon) mysteriously grows to 49 ft 11 in, she is labelled a monster and taken in by the military to an institution housing for other monsters: Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D., an insect-headed mad scientist (Hugh Laurie), the Missing Link, a thousands-of-years-old fish-man (Will Arnett), B.O.B., a gelatin-like, jolly, indestructible monster (Seth Rogen) and Insectosaurus, a fuzzy bug that stands at 350 feet tall, making even Susan look tiny by comparison. When a UFO lands and an alien overlord named Gallaxhar (Rainn Wilson) demands that Earth be given to them, General W.R. Monger (Kiefer Sutherland) suggests to the President (Stephen Colbert) that the monsters can provide the firepower to defeat the aliens.
| Directed by | Conrad Vernon Rob Letterman |
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| Produced by | Lisa Stewart Jill Hopper (co-producer) Lisa Stewart (co-producer) Latifa Ouaou(co-producer) |
| Written by | Maya Forbes Wallace Wolodarsky Rob Letterman Jonathan Aibel Glenn Berger Conrad Vernon (Story) Rob Letterman (Story) |
| Starring | Reese Witherspoon Rainn Wilson Hugh Laurie Seth Rogen Will Arnett Kiefer Sutherland Stephen Colbert Paul Rudd |
| Music by | Henry Jackman |
| Distributed by | USA: DreamWorks Animation though Paramount Pictures International: United International Pictures Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | March 27, 2009 (USA)[1] |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | 150 million $ + 15 million $ (for 3-D conversion) |
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