Monsters vs Aliens: 3D fight
Posted on 07/04/2009 in Homepage 4, Specials
During the last FFF edition (January 27th, February 1st 2009), the Festival presented the preview of 30 minutes of the movie now on the Italian screens: Monsters vs Aliens, the last animated movie by Rob Letterman e Conrad Vernon, produced by Dreamworks Animation, the US company, famous for the animated comedies such as Shrek and Madagascar.
Waiting and expectation by the audience and the press are very high because the movie has a pioneer aspect: Monsters vs Aliens is expressly conceived for the stereoscopic 3D screening.
Real pioneers of animation cinema, like Jeffrey Katzenberg, define 3D animation, this relatively new tri-dimensional technology based on the use of polarized glass like “ the most exciting innovation in cinema history since the introduction of sound and the use of colour.
Monster vs Aliens opens a new way for the animated cinema and also in Italy a lot of theaters are becoming 3d stereoscopic theaters for the new coming movies. In Italy the equipped theaters are about a hundred to show the new 3D movies like Coraline, Ice Age 3, Up, Avatar.
Le last Future Film Festival edition dedicated an entire day, the 3D Day, to the development of digital cinema and, in particular, of 3D stereoscopy in Italy and worldwide: Italian producers, distributors, movie theatre managers took part to the event. The new stereoscopic 3D is now an important technique to the development of the cinema.
The movie tells a story with a perfect Dreamworks style: refined animation, amusing screeplay and a lot of funny quotes.
When California girl Susan Murphy is unexpectedly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches tall and is instantly labeled a “monster” named Ginormica. The military jumps into action, and she is captured and held in a secret government compound. The world learns that the military has been quietly rounding up other monsters over the years. This ragtag group consists of the brilliant but insect-headed Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D.; the macho half-ape, half-fish The Missing Link; the gelatinous and indestructible B.O.B.; and the 350-foot grub called Insectosaurus. Their confinement time is cut short however, when a mysterious alien robot lands on Earth and begins storming the country. As a last resort, under the guidance of General W.R. Monger (on a desperate order from The President), the motley crew of Monsters is called into action to combat the aliens and save the
world from imminent destruction.
Monsters vs Aliens plays with the stereotypes of movies with monsters or aliens and it’s full of quotes and parodies. The movie has been realized with InTru3D by Dreamworks Animation.
The official website in which you can find featurettes and interviews with dubbers and staff.
by Giulietta Fara
