Planet 51
Planet 51 is a Spanish- British CGI animation film by Jorge Blanco. The screenplay was written by Joe Stillman. Planet 51 was launched in German cinemas on December 3, 2009.
Action
In the film, the theme of the visit is provided by extraterrestrial beings on the head. Because on the planet 51 live human-like " aliens " and are living through the development phase of the 1950s. This is represented as a time when the films are very popular among the youth about aliens. Although some on the planet is different, eg it is raining stones or there are aliens out as a dog for a walk, essentially a quite human-like cohabitation is presented. In the midst of this world, the young Lem just managed to be hired at an observatory and it seems to be the happiest day in his life. Only his love for the beautiful Neera he can not confess because they are permanently disrupted by a hippie and feels attracted to the grouping also Neera.
A short time later, it comes to an adventurous incident. An alien, a person who lands his spaceship in the garden of Lem's family. To his horror, discovers astronaut Captain Charles "Chuck" Baker, that the planet is inhabited and take panicked flight. At the same time the military of Planet 51 has noticed his arrival and is completely naive of an invasion from. So they seize the ship and try to find Charles in all circumstances. Ultimately Lem encounters in the observatory on the astronauts and manages both to look after some initial difficulties to be equivalent. Especially Lem realizes that Charles did not come in bad faith and tries to bring him back to his spaceship, which would in fact fly back automatically after a little more than three days alone. However, it turns out to be impossible to go unnoticed to enter the heavily guarded and besieged by the media frenzy spaceship. At the same time Lem involved in several misunderstandings with Neera who assumes because of its absurd deeds that he too was of the opinion that the aliens are hostile in any case.
Thus, both initially hide in the house of Lem's family and are being discovered by Lem and Neera friend 's young brother, but can arrange with Charles as well. At the same time breaks the designated rover Rover out of a specialized research institution aliens and does automatically on the search for Charles. Rover has this rather the behavior of a dog and a permanent spot for it to collect every stone. He is also extremely agile and finally managed also to get into the house. At this very moment they are confronted with the fact that General grawl wants to turn the house into his command center. So the flight starts before the military, which ultimately ends with the capture of Charles and Rover.
Lem, who do not want to come to terms with his role as a survivor of the alien invasion itself, meanwhile, tried together with his friends and Neera who had now understood the true intention of Lem during the arrest, to find Charles and free. They get it from Rover, which obviously could escape from the prisoner transport assistance. So he leads them to a secret base in the desert ( an allusion to the Area 51 ), where they are able to preserve Charles before removing it from his brain. Then they succeed with the also taken there spaceship to escape, after Charles has become unconscious before General grawl likewise reflected in the spaceship. Finally, in all it create Lem and Neera to confess their love for each other. After another stop in the vicinity of the house of Lem, the new friends say goodbye, including of General grawl with, and Charles returns with the spacecraft back into space. Rover remains below its back because it accepts Skiff as a new owner.
Conception
The film uses many allusions to real world phenomena and myths that are associated with the space or potential aliens. So the title of the film is already a reference to the American military - restricted Area 51, which is implicated in accordance with various ideas with the exploration of extraterrestrial life forms. Even the naming of different characters based on real models and plays varied on this.
In addition to the terms of themes from the real world is using the film also various well-known fictional works. Examples of this are, for example, the dog of an elderly lady, a parody of the Xenomorph from the Alien films. It was also the much-quoted flight scene from ET taken up, or even the theme music ( Strauss - " Also Sprach Zarathustra " ) from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, the sounds, as the astronaut leaves his spaceship.
Reviews
" Not afraid of the Americans in the 50s as much as an attack by Soviet nuclear missiles. The fear of communism compensated the filmmakers in Hollywood with cheaply produced sci-fi movies such as " the Body Snatchers ," " War of the Worlds " or " Came from Outer Space ". "Planet 51" not only quotes the paranoia of the 50s, but also plays with the classic motifs of the B-movies of the time. If the army surrounded Chuck's space capsule, then remember these scenes up into individual settings into the sci- fi classic " The Day the Earth Stood Still ". The ironic play with the historical set pieces work so well that you almost forget the trackside sometimes quite sterile look of the film. The residents of Glipforg like with their wrinkle-free faces and their banana-like hairstyles yet look so strange - never were the aliens more human than in this film. "
" Movie animation and feature films take the film quite a bit of originality, but the lovingly drawn details and the friendly humor, are advertised with the tolerance to, compensate for this. "