Despite its solid premise and cast, received mixed reviews upon its November 2009 release. Critics generally praised the animation quality and the core role-reversal concept but noted that the script relied too heavily on potty humor and chase sequences that felt padded for time.
: Captain Charles "Chuck" Baker lands on a planet he believes is uninhabited, only to find a civilization of green-skinned humanoids living in a culture frozen in the 1950s. The Conflict Planet 51
The film’s masterstroke is its role-reversal premise. We’ve seen a thousand versions of “humans vs. aliens,” but Planet 51 asks: What if we are the monsters? Despite its solid premise and cast, received mixed