I must say in advance that I have nothing against animated features. I thoroughly enjoyed the Toy Story movies, and I both own and love Shrek, The Incredibles, Monsters Inc and Ratatouille, all of which are very well written and well produced movies. Now that that's out of the way, please don't waste your money watching Monsters vs. Aliens.
This wasn't a horrible movie, but it really wasn't worth paying to watch at all. Aside from the 3D gimmick, the plot is worse than most Saturday morning cartoons I've watched with an insanely silly choice of monster types and only a few well-executed jokes. In fact, most of the funniest material is the horribly blatant references to other source material which you only enjoy because those movies were good.
Despite its having an all-star voice-acting cast (who really did the best they could do with the material they were given), the movie was panned by the 'real critics' out there too, with an average score of 56% among respectable reviewers.
Was the 3D experience good? Not bad. Mostly used for depth (into the screen / far away from you) and rarely used for objects sticking out of the screen (more susceptible to sheering and other strange side-effects). Did I really notice? Most of the time, no, but I've been to my share of IMAX 3D movies before. That said, if you're planning to lay down $10 to see it in 3D just for the experience, you can wait. Dreamworks claims all their future releases will be done in stereoscopic 3D (that's using the glasses), and the upcoming movie "Up" by Pixar is due out in less than a month, also in full 3D.
Did my seven year old daughter enjoy it? Yes. Was she talking about it and raving about the characters or story afterwards? Nope, not a peep. Your mileage may vary.
For those who need to know, the full plot is up on Wikipedia.
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