Monsters Vs. Aliens Movie Plot Susan Murphy (Reese Witherspoon) is hit by a meteor on the day of her wedding to weatherman Derek Dietl (Paul Rudd), absorbing a substance called quantonium and growing into a giantess. Alerted to the meteor crash, the military arrive and capture Susan. She is labeled a monster, renamed Ginormica, and sent to a top-secret prison facility headed by General W.R. Monger (Kiefer Sutherland) and containing other monsters: B.O.B. (Seth Rogen), a brainless, indestructible gelatinous blob; Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D. (Hugh Laurie), a mad scientist with the head and abilities of a cockroach; the Missing Link (Will Arnett), an amphibious fish-ape hybrid; and Insectosaurus, a colossal grub that is even larger than Susan. The monsters are forbidden to have any contact with the outside world; while the other monsters have been living contentedly with this lifestyle for the past 50 years, Susan feels incredibly isolated and wishes to return to her old life.An alien named Gallaxhar (Rainn Wilson) detects the quantonium radiation emanating from Earth and deploys a gigantic robotic probe to find it and extract it from its source, Susan. After a botched attempt by the President of the United States (Stephen Colbert) to make first contact with the robot, it begins destroying everything in sight, resisting all conventional military force used against it. General Monger convinces the President to use the monsters to fight the robot instead. The monsters accept the mission with the promise of freedom if they succeed. Arriving in San Francisco, Susan is chased by the robot across the city to the Golden Gate Bridge, where the monsters are able to defeat the robot.Now free, Susan returns to her hometown and introduces her family and friends to the monsters, who are quickly dejected after innocently causing a panicked ruckus in the neighborhood. Derek, meanwhile, breaks up with Susan, claiming that he cant be married to someone who could overshadow his career. Initially devastated, Susan realizes that becoming a monster has improved her life, and fully embraces her new friends and lifestyle. Suddenly, she is abducted by Gallaxhar, who apparently kills Insectosaurus when he tries to save her. On Gallaxhars ship, Susan breaks loose and chases Gallaxhar down, only to enter a machine that extracts the quantonium from her body, shrinking her to her normal size. Gallaxhar proceeds to use the quantonium to power a machine which clones him into an army so he can invade Earth.
With assistance from General Monger, B.O.B., Dr. Cockroach, and the Missing Link infiltrate Gallaxhars ship, rescue Susan, and hot-wire the ships power core, activating the ships self-destruct sequence. Susan, however, is cut off from her friends, who are trapped in the power core and tell her to save herself. Instead, Susan confronts Gallaxhar, who tries to escape with the quantonium, and attempts to force him into releasing her friends. When Gallaxhar says he cannot reverse the sequence, Susan takes the quantonium back and absorbs it, restoring her to her gargantuan size and allowing her to save her friends. The monsters leap out of the exploding ship and are rescued by General Monger on the back of the revived Insectosaurus, who had sealed his body in a cocoon and transformed into a giant butterfly. The monsters receive a heros welcome upon their return. Derek attempts to get back with Susan for the sake of interviewing her, which could benefit his career; instead, Susan rejects him and forces him to endure the humiliation of being thrown into the air and caught, swallowed and spit out by B.O.B. on camera. At that moment, the monsters are alerted to a monster attack near Paris and fly off to combat the new menace.Monsters Vs. Aliens Cast and characters
Reese Witherspoon as Susan Murphy, aka Ginormica: A young woman from Modesto, California who is hit by a radioactive meteor on her wedding day, causing her to mutate and grow to a height of 49' 11 1/2?. Somewhat meek and unassertive, she initially wants nothing more than to return to her old life, but gradually warms up to her new status as a monster. Even for her size, she is amazingly strong and has a resistance to energy attacks, making Gallaxhars weapons all but useless against her. Prior to her mutation, she has brown hair. After her mutation, she has white hair.
Seth Rogen as B.O.B. (Benzonate Ostylezene Bicarbonate): An blue indestructible gelatinous mass created when a genetically-altered tomato was injected with a chemically-altered ranch dressing. He has no brain (It turns out you dont need one!), and as such, he always says what comes to mind, often confuses his friends agendas with his own, has apparent trouble with telling men and women apart (at first believing that Susan was actually a man), and has an extremely limited attention span. His greatest strength lies in his ability to devour and digest any substance.
Hugh Laurie as Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D.: A brilliant but mad scientist who, in an experiment to imbue himself with the longevity and abilities of a cockroach, ended up with a giant cockroachs head but gained the ability to climb up walls and high resistance to physical damage. He is charming and sophisticated, in spite of his tendencies to eat garbage and laugh maniacally.
Will Arnett as The Missing Link: A 20,000-year-old fish-ape hybrid who was found frozen and thawed out by scientists, only to escape and wreak havoc at his old lagoon habitat. He behaves as a macho jock most of the time, but is rather out of shape. Despite this, he is an expert martial-artist and takes it upon himself to lead the team in attacks, even if his gung-ho attitude doesnt always work to their advantage.
Conrad Vernon as Insectosaurus: Formerly a one-inch grub transformed by nuclear radiation into a 350-foot-tall monster with the ability to shoot silk out of his nose. He is unable to speak clearly, and is mesmerized by bright lights (usually used to lead him to other locations); he also has a close bond with the Missing Link. In his butterfly form, he grows wings and is able to fly and becomes the Monsters mode of transportation.
Aliens
Rainn Wilson as Gallaxhar: An evil alien overlord who hopes to take over Earth. He is served by gigantic robot probes and an army of clones of himself. He claims to have suffered several traumas in his youth, driving him to destroy his own homeworld and make a new one on Earth. Throughout most of the film, he sends his soldiers to capture Susan and extract the quantonium (the substance that caused her mutation) from her body.
Amy Poehler as Gallaxhars Computer, a smooth-operating, user-friendly computer that follows his orders with a sarcastic tone.
Humans
Kiefer Sutherland as General W.R. Monger: A military leader who runs a top secret facility where monsters are held. He comes up with a plan to fight the invading aliens with the imprisoned monsters. With this, the monsters gain his respect, and he gains theirs. In a scene during the credits, he claims to be 90 years old, in spite of his youthful appearance. His name is a pun on the word warmonger. Though he detains monsters, he never shows any hostility towards them throughout the film and even salutes them before their mission.
Stephen Colbert as President Hathaway: President of the United States. Not wanting to be remembered as the President in office when the world came to an end, he agrees with General Mongers monsters vs. aliens plan. He is very tolerant of the use of weapons, and even carries a gun with him at all times. He even tries to use nuclear weapons to attack the aliens, only to be stopped every time.
Paul Rudd as Derek Dietl: A local weatherman and Susans ex-fianc. He jumps at whatever opportunity he has to boost his career, which causes him to place his job (and himself) before his relationship with Susan (he cancels their plans to have a romantic honeymoon in Paris to land an anchorman job in Fresno, for example). After she sees him as the self obsessed man he really is, she effectively turns him down by publicly humiliating him during his attempted interview with her.
Jeffrey Tambor as Carl Murphy: Susans over-emotional father.
Julie White as Wendy Murphy: Susans mother.
Ed Helms as News Reporter
Rene Zellweger as Katie
John Krasinski as Cuthbert
David Koch as Australian newsreader
Monsters Vs. Aliens Box Office Results for USA on April 1012, 2009
Weekend Gross $21,812,253
Total Gross $140,203,799
Monsters Vs. Aliens Box Office Results for USA on April 35, 2009
Weekend Gross $32,609,165
Total Gross $70,950,500
Monsters Vs. Aliens Box Office Results for USA on March 2729, 2009
Weekend Gross $59,321,095
Total Gross $59,321,095
http://www.movie-boxoffice.com/monsters-vs-aliens-movie/
With assistance from General Monger, B.O.B., Dr. Cockroach, and the Missing Link infiltrate Gallaxhars ship, rescue Susan, and hot-wire the ships power core, activating the ships self-destruct sequence. Susan, however, is cut off from her friends, who are trapped in the power core and tell her to save herself. Instead, Susan confronts Gallaxhar, who tries to escape with the quantonium, and attempts to force him into releasing her friends. When Gallaxhar says he cannot reverse the sequence, Susan takes the quantonium back and absorbs it, restoring her to her gargantuan size and allowing her to save her friends. The monsters leap out of the exploding ship and are rescued by General Monger on the back of the revived Insectosaurus, who had sealed his body in a cocoon and transformed into a giant butterfly. The monsters receive a heros welcome upon their return. Derek attempts to get back with Susan for the sake of interviewing her, which could benefit his career; instead, Susan rejects him and forces him to endure the humiliation of being thrown into the air and caught, swallowed and spit out by B.O.B. on camera. At that moment, the monsters are alerted to a monster attack near Paris and fly off to combat the new menace.Monsters Vs. Aliens Cast and characters
Reese Witherspoon as Susan Murphy, aka Ginormica: A young woman from Modesto, California who is hit by a radioactive meteor on her wedding day, causing her to mutate and grow to a height of 49' 11 1/2?. Somewhat meek and unassertive, she initially wants nothing more than to return to her old life, but gradually warms up to her new status as a monster. Even for her size, she is amazingly strong and has a resistance to energy attacks, making Gallaxhars weapons all but useless against her. Prior to her mutation, she has brown hair. After her mutation, she has white hair.
Seth Rogen as B.O.B. (Benzonate Ostylezene Bicarbonate): An blue indestructible gelatinous mass created when a genetically-altered tomato was injected with a chemically-altered ranch dressing. He has no brain (It turns out you dont need one!), and as such, he always says what comes to mind, often confuses his friends agendas with his own, has apparent trouble with telling men and women apart (at first believing that Susan was actually a man), and has an extremely limited attention span. His greatest strength lies in his ability to devour and digest any substance.
Hugh Laurie as Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D.: A brilliant but mad scientist who, in an experiment to imbue himself with the longevity and abilities of a cockroach, ended up with a giant cockroachs head but gained the ability to climb up walls and high resistance to physical damage. He is charming and sophisticated, in spite of his tendencies to eat garbage and laugh maniacally.
Will Arnett as The Missing Link: A 20,000-year-old fish-ape hybrid who was found frozen and thawed out by scientists, only to escape and wreak havoc at his old lagoon habitat. He behaves as a macho jock most of the time, but is rather out of shape. Despite this, he is an expert martial-artist and takes it upon himself to lead the team in attacks, even if his gung-ho attitude doesnt always work to their advantage.
Conrad Vernon as Insectosaurus: Formerly a one-inch grub transformed by nuclear radiation into a 350-foot-tall monster with the ability to shoot silk out of his nose. He is unable to speak clearly, and is mesmerized by bright lights (usually used to lead him to other locations); he also has a close bond with the Missing Link. In his butterfly form, he grows wings and is able to fly and becomes the Monsters mode of transportation.
Aliens
Rainn Wilson as Gallaxhar: An evil alien overlord who hopes to take over Earth. He is served by gigantic robot probes and an army of clones of himself. He claims to have suffered several traumas in his youth, driving him to destroy his own homeworld and make a new one on Earth. Throughout most of the film, he sends his soldiers to capture Susan and extract the quantonium (the substance that caused her mutation) from her body.
Amy Poehler as Gallaxhars Computer, a smooth-operating, user-friendly computer that follows his orders with a sarcastic tone.
Humans
Kiefer Sutherland as General W.R. Monger: A military leader who runs a top secret facility where monsters are held. He comes up with a plan to fight the invading aliens with the imprisoned monsters. With this, the monsters gain his respect, and he gains theirs. In a scene during the credits, he claims to be 90 years old, in spite of his youthful appearance. His name is a pun on the word warmonger. Though he detains monsters, he never shows any hostility towards them throughout the film and even salutes them before their mission.
Stephen Colbert as President Hathaway: President of the United States. Not wanting to be remembered as the President in office when the world came to an end, he agrees with General Mongers monsters vs. aliens plan. He is very tolerant of the use of weapons, and even carries a gun with him at all times. He even tries to use nuclear weapons to attack the aliens, only to be stopped every time.
Paul Rudd as Derek Dietl: A local weatherman and Susans ex-fianc. He jumps at whatever opportunity he has to boost his career, which causes him to place his job (and himself) before his relationship with Susan (he cancels their plans to have a romantic honeymoon in Paris to land an anchorman job in Fresno, for example). After she sees him as the self obsessed man he really is, she effectively turns him down by publicly humiliating him during his attempted interview with her.
Jeffrey Tambor as Carl Murphy: Susans over-emotional father.
Julie White as Wendy Murphy: Susans mother.
Ed Helms as News Reporter
Rene Zellweger as Katie
John Krasinski as Cuthbert
David Koch as Australian newsreader
Monsters Vs. Aliens Box Office Results for USA on April 1012, 2009
Weekend Gross $21,812,253
Total Gross $140,203,799
Monsters Vs. Aliens Box Office Results for USA on April 35, 2009
Weekend Gross $32,609,165
Total Gross $70,950,500
Monsters Vs. Aliens Box Office Results for USA on March 2729, 2009
Weekend Gross $59,321,095
Total Gross $59,321,095
http://www.movie-boxoffice.com/monsters-vs-aliens-movie/
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