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Planet 51 – Trailer

Premiere kino : 22.01.2010
Seksten år gamle LEM bor på Planet 51, i et hyggelig og rolig nabolag som minner om USA på 1950-tallet. Livets hans er lykkelig, trygt og forutsigbart. Helt til det uforutsigbare skjer!

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Directed by	Jorge Blanco Co-Directer Javier Adad Marcos Martinez
Produced by	Ignacio Perez Dolset Guy Colins
Written by	Joe Stillman
Starring	Dwayne Johnson Jessica Biel Justin Long Seann William Scott Gary Oldman John Cleese
Music by	James Seymour Brett
Editing by	Alex Rodriguez
Studio	Ilion Animation Studios HandMade Films
Distributed by	TriStar Pictures
Release date(s)	November 20, 2009
Running time	91 minutes
Country	Spain United States
Language	English
Budget	$60 million
Gross revenue	$12,6 million (at Nov 22, 2009)

Planet 51 is an animated film directed by Jorge Blanco, written by Joe Stillman and starring Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Seann William Scott, Gary Oldman and John Cleese. Produced by Madrid-based Ilion Animation Studios and HandMade Films for $60 million, it was acquired for US distribution by New Line Cinema in November 2007. Planet 51 was released on November 20, 2009, by Sony Pictures Worldwide via TriStar Pictures. It was originally titled Planet One,^[1] but re-named Planet 51 as all “Planets” from 1 to 50 were trademarks. Planet 51 is the most expensive movie produced in Spain.

Contents [hide] 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production and release 4 Reception 4.1 Criticial reaction 4.2 Box Office 5 Cultural References 6 Video game 7 References 8 External links

Plot

The film follows a NASA astronaut, Captain Charles “Chuck” Baker (Dwayne Johnson) who lands on Planet 51 thinking he’s the first to set foot on it. However, he discovers it’s inhabited by little green people who live in a white picket-fenced world reminiscent of 1950s America. This frightens the aliens, who think he’s an invader.

Cast

• Dwayne Johnson as Captain Charles “Chuck” Baker
• Jessica Biel as Neera
• Justin Long as Lem
• Seann William Scott as Skiff
• Gary Oldman as General Grawl
• John Cleese as Professer Kripple
• Ryan Rosenfeld as Marv

Production and release

The film, which cost approximately $60 million, finished production by June 2009.^[2] It was scheduled for release on November 20, 2009 by Sony Pictures Worldwide via their TriStar Pictures division.^[3] In November 2007, TriStar Pictures had picked up the film’s domestic distribution rights; the studio itself was to release the film in the summer of 2009. However, the film’s producers insisted on a November release. TriStar Pictures became the film’s home after New Line Cinema became a division of Warner Bros.

The film is directed by Jorge Blanco, Javier Abad and Marcos Martinez.

Reception

Criticial reaction

The film has received generally unfavorable reviews from critics. ^[4] Rotten Tomatoes reported that 19% of critics gave the film positive reviews based on 53 reviews with an average score of 4.1/10. ^[5]. Another review aggretator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating from 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, gave the film an average score of 39% based on 19 reviews. ^[6]

Adam Markovitz of Entertainment Weekly graded the film a B regarding the film “delivers a few pleasant surprises, including a smart story”. ^[7] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2½ stars, but positively wrote of the film being “perfectly pleasant as kiddie entertainment, although wall-to-wall with pop references to the American 1950s.” ^[8] However, some critics such as Markovitz ^[7], Steven Rea of the Philadelphia Inquirer ^[9], and Brain Miller of Village Voice ^[10] acknowledged the film is “an E.T. in reverse”.

Box Office

The film opened #4 behind 2012, The Blind Side and New Moon respectively with a $12.6 million debut. ^[11]

Cultural References

The film contains many cultural references, mostly to other science fiction films and, fifties pop culture, and the cold war.

References to Alien:

• The pet resembles the creature from Alien.
• The pet shoots out its tongue and attaches to astronaut Baker’s helmet. This is a reference to the scene in Alien where the creature shoots itself out of the egg onto Kane’s face.
• The pet’s urine is acidic as is the alien’s blood in Alien
• The pet sneaks on board astronaut Baker’s ship before he leaves. This is a reference to the final scene in Alien where the alien sneaks on board Ripley’s escape pod.
• The scene in the vault at Base 9 where probes and satellites from Earth are stored resembles the panoramic view of alien egg pods in the hold of the ship in Alien.

Other film references:

• Astronaut Baker performs lines of dialogue from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and The Terminator.
• The name of astronaut Baker’s robot assistant, “rover”, is a reference to the Mars rover, which it resembles. It also resembles WALL-E.
• The scene where the postman teases the pet into running to the end of its leash resembles a similar running gag between Foghorn Leghorn and George P. Dog in Looney Tunes cartoons.
• Astronaut Baker collides with a bicycle rider and flies through the air past a background shot of the full moon. The shot is an homage to a similar image in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
• The film’s plot could be described as a reverse-ET
• The warehouse area in Base 9 resembles Hangar 51 in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
• The “humaniac” movies resemble fifties science fiction movies.
• The “right stuff” is a reference to the film about the space program.
• When astronaut Baker first steps onto the surface of the planet to plant the American flag, the musical score quotes from Richard Strauss‘ Also sprach Zarathustra, which was featured prominently in the score of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Baker hums the theme from the work, indicating the he has seen the film.
• There is a running joke about anal probes, probably a reference to the South Park episode Cartman Gets an Anal Probe, but which was also an alien abduction story cliche long before it was written into South Park.
• There are frequent running jokes about alien mind control, as in Invasion of the Body Snatchers

UFO references:

• The name of the film refers to Area 51, an area rumored to contain crashed UFOs.
• The region “Base 9″ is an analogue to Area 51.
• The architecture of the homes, pieces of furniture, figures on the blackboard at school, and the layout of the city all resemble crop circles – a phenomenon believed by some to be the work of extraterrestrials

Cold war references:

• The children at school are shown doing Duck and cover drills.
• Some of the natural features in the area outside of town resemble mushroom clouds, commonly associated with nuclear explosions.

Video game

A video game based on the film was announced in November 2007. The game was published by Sega and available on Nintendo DS, Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in November 17, 2009. The console versions was developed by Pyro Studios and the Nintendo DS version is developed by Firebrand Games.

Zed Worldwide has developed a (F2P) online (MMORPG) for PCs^[12] aimed for the younger audience.

References