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...Monsters vs Aliens commercial during the Super Bowl - maybe with the special glasses or, without them, as a myopic blur. If you took your kids to the Jonas Brothers movie, you sat through nearly a dozen trailers for 3-D movies to be released this year. Perhaps you saw the latest issues of TIME, People and three other Time Inc. publications promoting 3-D as "pretty darn cool," and citing such top directors as Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and Peter Jackson as being in love with the process...
...usual spit and polish are on display in Monsters vs Aliens, directed by Rob Letterman (co-director of Shark Tale) and Conrad Vernon (co-director of Shrek 2). The movie imagines that in 1950 the government, fearful that the populace would freak out if it knew that monsters actually existed, put a top-secret plan into effect. General W.R. Monger (Kiefer Sutherland) herded the lot of misfits into X-file confinement. Waiting for Susan are Dr. Cockroach (Hugh Laurie), the gelatinous B.O.B. (Seth Rogen), the gatory Missing Link (Will Arnett) and a huge, grubby, voiceless Insectosaurus. It's another band...
...Although it's set in the present day, Monsters vs Aliens functions as a visual encyclopedia of antique pop culture. It assumes that viewers of all ages are so steeped in the '50s B-movie ethos that they'll laugh familiarly at references to The Fly, The Blob, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Mothra and the 3-D paddleball effect from House of Wax. And, of course, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, of which Susan represents the absolutely cutest version...
...ingenuity in its premise and the ingratiating voice cast, the movie works better as a sci-fi action picture - with some extraterrestrial vistas that come close to WALL-E's in their palette and precision - than as a comedy. That's understandable. As the first of its kind, M vs A wants to parade the range of its 3-D effects. It's quite a show, from the intergalactic rock slide that starts things off to the climactic destruction of the Golden Gate bridge. That's a tribute to a similar scene in Ray Harryhausen's 1955 It Came from...
...Republicans were quick to point out. It dropped the long-term inclusion of the costly Alternative Minimum Tax fix - an annual must-pass bill to prevent the tax once intended for the superrich from hitting the middle class - and opted for a shorter time line of just five years vs. the 10-year budget the White House had crafted. "Given the state of the economy, everyone agrees that it's very difficult to predict the next five years," said Senator Mark Pryor, an Arkansas Democrat, "let alone 10 years...