The topsy-turvey plot sees Dwaynetherockjohnson's all American astronaut making first contact with a planet Just Like Ours, except that the inhabitants are green.
Which, on paper, sounds like a lot of saccharine "we're all the same in our hearts" nonsense, but in the digital flesh appears loads more fun. For a start, the alien society looks like a pastel Edward Scissorhands 1950s. Then there's the way the film seems to be inverting ET, with Dwayne finding himself as the alien, befriending some sympathetic local kids, and trying to find his way home. And there's the miltary commander who is channelling Zapp Brannigan.
And any film that casts an HR Giger xenomorph as a lapdog has got to be worth seeing (you get a better glimpse in the second, shorter trailer).
US audiences get Planet 51 for Thanksgiving weekend, and it arrives in the UK on December 4th.
Well see, nearly always, the dialogue is recorded first, and then the animation is geared to that, so they couldn't have done the character, and then got the Rock.
Also, he doesn't sound himself. ... Read More
But I have to agree, if you've got Dwyane Johnson to voice the lead, to make him blonde and white is a little insensative. Unless they had already ready rendered the whole thing before casting Dwayne. Hmmmmm ... Read More
It does look fun, harmless but fun, but is it just me or do you find that Dwayne Johnson - a mighty black man of samoan descent,-is voicing the main character, an all american white man insulting and a little rascist. The computer can do white, green, blue, black et all but cannot (or will not) do brown.If you got Dwayne to voice it surely you'd change the character appearance accordingly. ... Read More
