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Planet 51 - AniMat's Classic Reviews (Patreon)

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2026-05-20 19:00:10
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There are worse things that a movie can be than just bland and forgettable, such is the case with Planet 51. In this review, you will see how this is the first time in years where a movie turned out to be so much worse than I could ever expect. While its main gimmick is to be a role-reversal of the E.T. formula, it turned out to be both the dullest and the dumbest version with a cast of idiotic aliens and a pre-Maui Dwayne Johnson.

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Kenneth Stoddard

My first experience with Planet 51 is when I first saw it in theaters as a kid with my aunt and cousins. It was around Thanksgiving weekend me and mom visited my aunt over in Ohio and I was intrigued about the movie after seeing the trailer spot either on TV or DVD movies from Sony. At the time when we all see it, it was alright and even watched a couple times more on DVD. As an adult now, yeah this movie kinda sucked. This movie has interesting idea about basically a reverse E.T. movie about a human astronaut trying to get off from the alien planet with the 1950s retro while bonding a friendship with an alien, but the problem is that it had a terrible execution. There some good parts that were okay like the animation and Rover as robot dog like character was cute as well. The rest was bland from the cliche story, weak writing, forgettable characters, hit or miss acting including Dwayne Johnson to be absolute miscast as the main lead, unfunny humor, and leans too heavily on pop culture references that makes the movie dated. Other than that, it a forgettable animated movie at best and knowing now that this is from Illion Animation Studios who later turn themselves into Skydance Animation Madrid after Skydance Media bought them with John Lasseter in charge, I’m not surprised as I find it on par with Wonder Park for Paramount and recent animated films under Skydance Animation. Also, I can point out how weird that this is rare animated Sony movie released under TriStar Pictures? When it animated films from Sony Pictures, they’re normally be released under Columbia Pictures rather be for release the animated films from Sony Pictures Animation or distributing third party films like Monster House, Heavy Metal, Sausage Party, The Angry Birds Movie, and The Garfield Movie for example. Even Sony Pictures Classics got their own taste for indie animation including the animated films from Sylvain Chomet. Under TriStar Pictures, however, they released that under that division. The only animated films to be released under TriStar Pictures are Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw under distribution deal with Carloco Pictures at the time and The Trumpet of the Swan and that it. The one thing they have in common however is that they were critical and commercial flops. So having Planet 51 under TriStar Pictures might tell me that they don’t have either confidence with it from my guess in terms of theory and TriStar haven’t even released an animated film since then. I thought I let you guys know about that.

Toontastic Juju

The fact that Planet 51 is now the worst film of 2009 surpassing the first Cloudy movie is quite a surprise. And to be very honest, Cloudy is much better than Planet 51, I will admit I enjoy both of them when I was young (and yes, i still love Cloudy, I respect your opinion), with Planet 51, eh, there are far better films out there. Anyways, I’m super excited for the next review next month, we’re now exiting that awful planet and land back on earth to visit a farm that’s full of animals who loved to party. Barnyard is next!!

Hugo Segal

Haven’t seen ‘Planet 51’ since its theatrical release and have no intention of revisiting the movie unless I had nothing better to stream (and that’s only “unless”). As for the next Classic Review, I was more of a Jimmy Neutron kid than “Barnyard”. But that’s not to say the latter wasn’t without its moments of “Family Guy”-style absurdity.

JezzMann 94

I only know of Planet 51 from the dvd’s I frequently see in thrift stores, same can be said about Barnyard.

Hunter O'Laughlin

I do remember Planet 51 from the trailers (“the big bad monster will get ya” scene and the Xenomorph dog are the things from the film that left the most impact considering those are the scenes they’d constantly show in the trailers and TV spots) and watching several times as a kid. I wasn’t aware of its bad reputation till much later when I saw reviews of the film ripping the film to shreds, and now seeing your review, I can definitely see the flaws of the film, and now I don’t have any interest in rewatching this. As soon as I saw one of the characters was voiced by Sean William Scott, I could easily tell you were going to find that character annoying given how much you’ve made it clear in your past Ice Age-related videos how much you dislike them. At least Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson went on to voice a much more likable character with Maui in the Moana films, but it’s still weird seeing him get his start in voicing animated characters with THIS film.

Justin Grant

I'm sorry that Animat did not like this movie at all. I just hope the next film he pulls out of the Animation Hat is not just a better one, but also a REAL good one. Anyway, Barnyard is coming next! Not only do I consider that a nostalgic classic of mine (although I may not enjoy it as much today as I did back then), but I actually thought of this as one of the potential films that could be next while watching the outro before he announced the next review. I do think he would enjoy that film more than Planet 51, but probably not by much. As for me, I'm just glad that it most likely won't get the seal of approval. BTW, Barnyard was actually playing on YTV the day this was posted on Patreon.

kahlil martin

I distinctly remember owning the Planet 51 game on the Wii (and I still do to this day).

Hunter O'Laughlin

Is the game better than the film or just on par with any other video game movie tie-in?

kahlil martin

Basically, it was kinda mid. It was a kid-friendly GTA Clone, but to be honest, I prefer Lego City Undercover in that little sub genre.

Bryce Gundy

Don’t forget about Escape from Planet Earth. that movie is also one of the worst sci-fi animated films.

Hunter O'Laughlin

That’s what makes me curious: Which film is worse? This or Escape from Planet Earth. I’d say Escape from Planet Earth considering the infamous production where the screenplay kept getting rewritten 17 TIMES, many actors and actresses being hired and then let go, and the original director being fired due to the executive meddling from the Weinsteins.,

Moviefreak

This movie actually had a few good jokes in it like the one where the mom is trying to feed her son medicine and Chuck comes crashing into the house and the kid just starts chugging the entire jar. I also liked the joke near the end where the aliens are all arguing over who should shoot who and one of them goes “i can shoot myself” i also thought Dwayne Johnson did a decent job in this movie despite the material he had to work with. I do think this idea could’ve worked it’s just too bad that it’s ruined by poor execution since the movie’s biggest problem comes down to the fact that it doesn’t know what it wants to be so the movie just ended up as a mess

SonicandShadowPlushChannel

😡good that movie deserves it a 3/10 whoever said it’s a 2/10 you sir or madam haha you are wrong now kiss my ass🤣but yes that movie really sucked I never seen it but when I got Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing for the Wii since 2015 or 2016 I saw the video game back ads that have planet 51 video game by Sega and boy it’s shows more bad now as a next review of barnyard I grow up watching it and boy I had a fun time watching it it’s considered a guilty pleasure it’s so bad that it’s funny I love Otis Kevin James sucks on other movies but when he voices Otis goddamn he is amazing not only I laugh from him but I think he is a great character if animat reviews the movie he would either give it a 5/10 or a animat seal of garbage 4/10 but deep down he would give it a 6/10 who knows he would say that his guilty pleasure movie

Hunter O'Laughlin

So no different than past video game movie tie-ins?