Planet 51
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Planet 51 |
| Original title | Planet 51 |
| Country of production |
Spain , UK |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jorge Blanco |
| script | Joe Stillman |
| production |
Guy Collins Ignacio Pérez Dolset |
| music | James Seymour board |
| cut | Alex Rodríguez |
Planet 51 is a Spanish - British CGI animation film directed by Jorge Blanco. The script was written by Joe Stillman . Planet 51 opened in German cinemas on December 3, 2009.
action
In the film, the theme of the visit is turned on its head by extraterrestrial beings. Because human-like "extraterrestrials" live on planet 51 and are currently going through the development phase of the USA in the 1950s. This is portrayed as a time when movies about aliens were immensely popular with the youth. Although some things are different on the planet, e.g. For example, if it rains stones or aliens are taken as dogs for a walk, a very human-like coexistence is shown. In the middle of this world, young Lem has just managed to get employed at an observatory and it seems to be the happiest day of his life. The only thing he can't confess is his love for the beautiful Neera , as they are constantly being disturbed by a hippie and Neera feels drawn to his group.
A short time later an adventurous incident occurs. An alien, a human, lands with his spaceship in the garden of Lem's family. To his horror, astronaut Captain Charles "Chuck" Baker discovers that the planet is inhabited and, in panic, flees. At the same time, the military of Planet 51 has noticed his arrival and is completely naive about an invasion. So they confiscate the spaceship and try to find Charles at all costs. Ultimately, Lem meets the astronaut in the observatory and, after initial difficulties, both manage to regard each other as equal. Most of all, Lem realizes that Charles did not come with bad intentions and tries to bring him back to his spaceship, which would automatically fly back alone after a little more than three days. However, it turns out to be impossible to get into the closely guarded spaceship, besieged by the media , unnoticed . At the same time, Lem becomes entangled in several misunderstandings with Neera, who, due to his absurd deeds, assumes that he too is of the opinion that the aliens are definitely hostile.
So they both hide in the house of Lem's family and are discovered by Lem's friend and Neera's young brother, who can also come to terms with Charles. In parallel, the breaks as Rover called Rover made from a specialized alien research facility and makes automatically to look for Charles. Rover has more of a dog's behavior and a permanent weakness for collecting every stone. At the same time, he is extremely agile and ultimately also manages to get into the house. At this very moment they are confronted with the fact that General Grawl wants to convert the house into his command center. This is how the escape from the military begins, which ultimately ends with the capture of Charles and Rover.
Lem, who does not want to resign himself to his role as a survivor of the alien invasion, tries meanwhile together with his friends and Neera, who by now understood the real intention of Lem during the arrest, to find and free Charles. They get help from Rover, who was obviously able to free himself from the transport of prisoners. So he leads them to a secret base in the middle of the desert (an allusion to Area 51 ), where they manage to save Charles from having his brain removed. They then manage to escape with the spaceship, which has also been brought there, after Charles also carried General Grawl, who had previously passed out, into the spaceship. In space, Lem and Neera finally manage to confess their love for one another. After another stopover near Lem's house, the new friends say goodbye, including General Grawl, and Charles returns to space with the spaceship. Rover, meanwhile, remains behind as he accepts Skiff as his new master.
Conception
The film makes use of numerous allusions to real conditions and myths that are related to space travel or potential extraterrestrials. The title of the film is an allusion to the American restricted military area Area 51 , which is associated with the exploration of extraterrestrial life forms according to various ideas. The naming of different characters is also based on real models or alludes to them in a modified form.
In addition to referring to topics from the real world, the film also makes use of various well-known fictional works. Examples are B. an elderly lady's dog, a parody of the xenomorph from the alien films. The much-cited flight scene from ET - The Extra-Terrestrial was also taken up, or the theme music ( Richard Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra ) from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey , which sounds when the astronaut leaves his spaceship.
Reviews
“In the 1950s, the Americans feared nothing more than an attack by Soviet nuclear missiles. The filmmakers in Hollywood compensated their fear of communism with cheaply produced science fiction films such as " The Demonic ", "The Battle of the Worlds " or " Danger from Space ". “Planet 51” not only cites the paranoia of the 50s, but also plays with the classic motifs from the B-movies of that time. When the army surrounds Chuck's space capsule, these scenes are reminiscent of the sci-fi classic " The day the earth stood still " right down to the individual shots . The ironic play with historical set pieces works so well that you almost forget the film's sterile look at times. The residents of Glipforg may look so strange with their wrinkle-free faces and their banana-like hairstyles - the aliens have never been more human than in this film. "
"References to other animated and feature films take away some of the originality of the film, but the lovingly drawn details and the friendly humor with which tolerance is advertised compensate for this."
synchronization
| role | Original speaker | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Chuck Baker | Dwayne Johnson | Ingo Albrecht |
| Lem | Justin Long | Raúl Richter |
| Neera | Jessica Biel | Gundi Eberhard |
| skiff | Seann William Scott | Sebastian Schulz |
| General Grawl | Gary Oldman | Udo Schenk |
| Professor Kipple | John Cleese | Thomas Danneberg |
| post man | Michael Nowka | |
| Glar | Alan Marriott | Stefan Krause |
| Eckle | Freddie Benedict | Marco Esser |
| Soldier Vesklin | Mathew Horne | Santiago Ziesmer |
| Soldier Vernkot | James Corden | Marco Kroeger |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Planet 51 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2010 (PDF; test number: 120 524 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Planet 51 . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Cinema.de: film review
- ↑ Planet 51. In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .