A Misunderstood Alien, but Nota s Smart as E.T.
di Stephen Holden The New York Times
The agreeable but flagrantly unoriginal “Planet 51” belongs to the mix-and-match school of animated moviemaking that operates on the plaintive hope that familiarity is the surest path to the box office. Almost every element of the film, created by Ilion Animation Studios, based in Madrid, is borrowed from earlier films, then tweaked (and invariably softened) to become a reference rather than a copy.
Directed by Jorge Blanco, from a story by Joe Stillman, it portrays the inhabitants of Planet 51 in a faraway galaxy as smaller, green, Shrek-like creatures with antennas, webbed feet and squished noses. [...]
di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (3753 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 20 Novembre 2009