Susan Murphy (voiced by Reese Witherspoon) is rejected by her fiancé after she is hit by a meteorite on her wedding day and grows to be 50 feet tall in this lovely animated homage to 1950s sci-fi films from DreamWorks.
Captured by the military, Susan – now renamed Ginormica – is locked away in a top-secret government containment facility with a ragtag group of other “misfit monsters” captured over the decades.
Heavily inspired by vintage cinema archetypes, the group includes B.O.B. (voiced by Seth Rogen), a brainless, indestructible, and hilarious blue gelatinous mass created by crossing a chemically altered dessert topping with a tomato (in a nod to The Blob); Dr Cockroach Ph.D. (voiced by Hugh Laurie), a mad scientist who accidentally turned himself into a humanoid roach during a failed experiment (inspired by The Fly); the Missing Link (voiced by Will Arnett), a 20,000-year-old fish-man thawed out from deep ice by scientists based on Creature from the Black Lagoon); and Insectosaurus, a 350-foot-tall grub mutated by nuclear radiation who later cocoons into a massive butterfly-like creature (a tribute to Godzilla and Mothra).
When a power-hungry four-eyed squid-like extraterrestrial overlord named Gallaxhar (voiced by Rainn Wilson) attacks Earth, the military reluctantly deploys the monsters to save the planet.
The movie was a commercial hit (taking $381.5 million worldwide against a $175 million production budget) and spawned a Monsters vs. Aliens franchise, spinning off short films like Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space, a video game, and an animated Nickelodeon TV series in 2013.
Susan Murphy/Ginormica
Reese Witherspoon (voice) B.O.B.
Seth Rogen (voice) Dr Cockroach Ph.D
Hugh Laurie (voice) The Missing Link
Will Arnett (voice) General W.R. Monger
Kiefer Sutherland (voice) Gallaxhar
Rainn Wilson (voice) President Hathaway
Stephen Colbert (voice) Derek Dietl
Paul Rudd (voice) Wendy Murphy
Julie White (voice) Carl Murphy
Jeffrey Tambor (voice) Computer
Amy Poehler (voice) Katie
Renée Zellweger (voice) Cuthbert
John Krasinski (voice) Private Bullhorn/Helicopter Pilot/Advisor Ortega
Sean Bishop (voice) Commander/Advisor Smith
Rich Dietl (voice) Technician Ben
Stephen Kearin (voice) Technician Jerry
Kent Osborne (voice) Secret Service Man #1/Lieutenant
Rob Letterman (voice) Wilson
Tom McGrath (voice) Advisor Cole/Army Commander Jones
Chris Miller (voice) Advisor Wedgie
Mike Mitchell (voice) Advisor Ouaou/Mrs Ronson/Female Advisor #2/Panicked Guest
Latifa Ouaou (voice) Soldier #4/Pilot/Soldier #3/News Technician
Geoffrey Pomeroy (voice) Soldier #1/Advisor Jackson
David P. Smith (voice) Bridesmaid Candy
Lisa Stewart (voice) Advisor Hawk/Advisor Dither/Minister/Secret Service Man #2/Mama Dietl
Conrad Vernon (voice)
Director
Rob Letterman
Conrad Vernon
Video
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Heavily inspired by vintage cinema archetypes, the group includes B.O.B. (voiced by Seth Rogen), a brainless, indestructible, and hilarious blue gelatinous mass created by crossing a chemically altered dessert topping with a tomato (in a nod to The Blob); Dr Cockroach Ph.D. (voiced by Hugh Laurie), a mad scientist who accidentally turned himself into a humanoid roach during a failed experiment (inspired by The Fly); the Missing Link (voiced by Will Arnett), a 20,000-year-old fish-man thawed out from deep ice by scientists based on Creature from the Black Lagoon); and Insectosaurus, a 350-foot-tall grub mutated by nuclear radiation who later cocoons into a massive butterfly-like creature (a tribute to Godzilla and Mothra).
Susan Murphy/Ginormica
General W.R. Monger
Wendy Murphy
Cuthbert
Wilson
Advisor Wedgie
