Monsters vs Aliens

Beasts battle extraterrestrials

Monsters vs Aliens is a 2009 DreamWorks animated film in which a woman mutated by a meteorite joins a team of government-held monsters to fight an alien invasion.

The title captures the film's premise directly—classic movie monsters pitted against extraterrestrial invaders.

The phrase occasionally appears as shorthand for any matchup between two different categories of threat or oddity.

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Reese Witherspoon · B movie · giant · giant robot · blob · creature · sci-fi · comedy · Susan · meteor · robots · clone · world domination · spaceship · Pentagon · rampage · fight scene · teamwork

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animation studio identity

Monsters vs AliensWALL-E

Trash-cubing automaton

Spirited Away · Toy Story · Finding Nemo · Ratatouille · The Incredibles

animation style

Monsters vs AliensSpirited Away

Taken by supernatural beings

The Lion King · hand-drawn animation · traditional animation · My Neighbor Totoro · 2D animation

tone and sophistication

Monsters vs AliensWALL-E

Trash-cubing automaton

Spirited Away · Persepolis

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Known to kids · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G