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Dreamworks Animation is pitting monsters against aliens in its cleverly titled film Monsters Vs. Aliens, due out next year. Why didn't they stick with the original title of the comic it's based on? Rex Havoc and the Ass-Kickers of the Fantastic is a much cooler sounding movie. Reese Witherspoon will be voicing one of the "monsters" as Ginormica, a girl who was hit by a meteor on her wedding day and grew to be 50 feet tall.
Only four Rex Havoc stories ever appeared in the pages of Warren Presents and three of those were collected in issue #14 from November 1981. Their team emblem consisted of a boot-print superimposed on a pair of buttocks, and Rex had his own fight song he would sing as the team marched into battle:
"We are the ass-kickers of the fantastic,In the Dreamworks film, aliens have disrupted cable television service on Earth, so the team of "monsters" heads off to do battle, hoping that they can restore Bravo's programming to viewers around the globe. However, based on the cast list below, we're not sure if the team still includes Rex, which makes us sad. What's a team of ass-kickers without their captain?
Let monsters all beware.
Three guys and a lass...
We kick ass...
In French we kick...derriére!"
Rainn Wilson - the evil alien Gallaxhar
Hugh Laurie - Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D.
Seth Rogen - the jellylike B.O.B.
Will Arnett - the half-ape, half-fish Missing Link
Kiefer Sutherland - General W.R. Monger
Stephen Colbert - The President
Reese Witherspoon - Ginormica
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They cast Colbert as the President? Seriously?
Hahahahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... *GASP* ...HAHAHAHAHA
Will probably be a cute flick, I'll check it out.
The art looks good, the battle-song is WONDERFUL, and the casting is full of good *voices* and not just known-name actors -- sounds like a winner to me!
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*crosses fingers in hopes that Sean Connery and Ian McKellan get cast!*
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And they said there was to be no more SF next year, according to Variety.
holy shit! i WANT that bridge destroying fuzzy bug to live in my backyard! i'll see it - it looks like there's some decent talent involved.
Colbert... as The President?
That's just too much win.
Made me smile :)
Persecution's legal
Persecution is legal
I think the long line of CG fluff with the same borrowed character designs is starting to make me bitter as this sounds exactly like every other animated Hollywood venture.
That being said, the giant fluffy thing destroying what looks to be the the Golden Gate bridge is pretty cute. That poor bridge, though. It's America's Tokyo Tower.
The story on which it's based sounds pretty interesting. I need to look that up...
Why didn't they stick with the original title of the comic it's based on? Rex Havoc and the Ass-Kickers of the Fantastic is a much cooler sounding movie.
That *was* a rhetorical question, right? A big studio movie without a title that can be approved by the most uptight and Jesus-loving soccer mom?
Monsters vs. Aliens + Cuteness of Dreamworks = Fuzzy happy feeling while quietly anticipating high levels of human destruction within the movie. Yay :) Just... Yay!
Colbert as the President is inarguably the best piece of casting, but Hugh Laurie as "Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D." is a close second.
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So, in the second image, are those MiG-23s or Tornadoes? 'Cause they aren't American planes...
-Kle.
F14s?
Looks a bit like The Incredibles, which I could use more of!
Looks and sound really neat, but will probably be ruined with a slew of pop culture jokes like all Dreamworks CG films.
that monster is ruining the view from my apartment roof.
@Killa_Charlie: I think with Colbert as the prez you've already got one pop culture joke before the movie even hits the screen.
@Klebert: Veritechs?
You had me at Colbert!
I wonder if they're raise the alert level to blackwatch paid?!
Ha Ha Ha! Typecast!
Yay for typecasting!!
They've got me with the voice cast, I'm afraid. The men anyway.
I need to see this right now! This looks hilarious.
Seriously... yet another movie with a whole cast of male characters of various sorts and one sexy girl?
Whatever, you'd think that Hollywood would get over its smurfette syndrome already!
Other than that it looks kind of fun.
Nice!
On second look, throw in a robot guy, and you've got a Doom Patrol movie!
@deckard97:
The engine air intakes look too rectangular, and the nose looks not quite right... Maybe I'm being too picky.
-kle.
This cast list is full of WIN!
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