2009 · animation · family · comedy
Planet 51
Directed by Jorge Blanco1h 31m2009
When Earth astronaut Capt. Chuck Baker arrives on Planet 51 -- a world reminiscent of American suburbia circa 1950 -- he tries to avoid capture, recover his spaceship and make it home safely, all with the help of an empathetic little green being.
Our read: Planet 51 (2009) reads as a cosy, breathless, surreal animation · family · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / family, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
Watching Planet 51 tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Planet 51 feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a short retro-alien comedy with a human-as-monster twist.”
Skip it tonight — You want Pixar-level wit or skip dated pop-culture gags.
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