scifiwire
11-22-2009, 11:43 PM
<IMG border=0 alt="Why you won't want to bother landing on <i>Planet 51</i>" src="http://scifiwire.com/assets_c/2009/11/Planet51Review1-thumb-300x428-28830.jpg">
Going into movies with no expectations can occasionally be a good thing. You get to enjoy that sense of discovery, the feeling that without any encouragement or provocation you "found" something and can now tell other people about it.
Unfortunately, that sometimes also speaks to the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of a film's promotion, and I have to admit that writing this introduction was my first impulse when thinking about Planet 51, even before I saw it, not least because prior to sitting in the theater I saw no previews or trailers for it and had no idea what it was about or whether there was any chance I might like it.
The flip side of having no expectations is that sometimes you discover you were right not to build something up too much—which is definitely the case with this particular movie. A poorly animated, poorly conceived, utterly predictable science fiction adventure without a single shred of originality, Planet 51 is not only one of the year's worst films, but a depressing pastiche that reminds those both with and without expectations that there are countless greater movies one could and should be watching, especially when ones like this try to steal their best and most memorable parts and try to make them their own.
More... (http://scifiwire.com/2009/11/planet-51.php)
Going into movies with no expectations can occasionally be a good thing. You get to enjoy that sense of discovery, the feeling that without any encouragement or provocation you "found" something and can now tell other people about it.
Unfortunately, that sometimes also speaks to the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of a film's promotion, and I have to admit that writing this introduction was my first impulse when thinking about Planet 51, even before I saw it, not least because prior to sitting in the theater I saw no previews or trailers for it and had no idea what it was about or whether there was any chance I might like it.
The flip side of having no expectations is that sometimes you discover you were right not to build something up too much—which is definitely the case with this particular movie. A poorly animated, poorly conceived, utterly predictable science fiction adventure without a single shred of originality, Planet 51 is not only one of the year's worst films, but a depressing pastiche that reminds those both with and without expectations that there are countless greater movies one could and should be watching, especially when ones like this try to steal their best and most memorable parts and try to make them their own.
More... (http://scifiwire.com/2009/11/planet-51.php)