Planet 51 Page #2

Synopsis: Lem is just an average teenager working on getting the girl and furthering his career at the local planetarium - except that he's an alien. At least to U.S. astronaut Captain Charles T. Baker who lands on Lem's planet hoping for a quick flag plant and a hasty return to earth and his millions of screaming fans. But on this alien planet the media has tagged spacemen as brain-eating, zombie-creating monsters, causing Baker to run for his life and into Lem's house. Now it's up to the green native to get the clumsy astronaut back to his spaceship before military dictator General Grawl and mad scientist Professor Kipple manage to exterminate the Earthly visitor.
Director(s): Jorge Blanco, Javier Abad (co-director), Marcos Martínez (co-director)
Production: Sony Pictures/TriStar Pictures
  4 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
39
Rotten Tomatoes:
21%
PG
Year:
2009
91 min
$42,194,060
Website
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Bubbles.

(WARBLING)

(OVER HEADPHONES) #

Be-bop-a-lula I don't mean maybe

# Be-bop-a-lula

She's my baby

# Be-bop-a-lula... #

(WOLF-WHISTLES)

(CHIRPS)

(CHIRPS)

Mmm?

(CHIRPS)

(BEEPING)

(GASPS)

(ALARM DRONING)

(WHIMPERING)

Call the General!

Call the General!

(ALARMS BLARING)

(WARBLING)

(THUDDING ON GLASS)

(ALARM SOUNDING)

It's in the Containment Room.

Lock this section down, now!

(ECKLE MIMICKING

SPACESHIP ZOOMING)

(MIMICS EXPLOSION)

(IMITATING ALIEN VOICE) Resistance

is futile. Surrender or die.

(HUMMING DRAMATIC MUSIC)

Come on, Eckle.

Go help your father.

(ON RADIO) # Mr. Sandman

Bring me a dream

Huh?

Mmm?

# Mr. Sandman... #

(GASPS)

(CRACKLING)

(SPLASHING)

Oh!

Huh?

Mmm?

(ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA

PLAYING)

(FOOTSTEPS THUDDING)

(HUMMING

ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA)

(HUMMING FINALE DRAMATICALLY)

(SQUEAKING)

What the...

(REINFLATING)

Duck?

(GULPS)

(CLEARS THROAT)

(WHISTLES)

(EXCLAIMING)

(GASPS)

Wow!

(WHIMPERING)

No! No! No! No! No!

(GRUNTS)

(EXCLAIMING)

Mom! Dad! There's

a ship in the...

(EXCLAIMING)

(PANTING)

(BARKING)

(SHUSHING)

(EXCLAIMING)

(SPITTING IN DISGUST)

(EXCLAIMING)

(EXCLAIMS)

Huh?

My car!

(YELLING)

Whoa! Whoa!

Open wide or the big,

bad monster will get you.

(GROANING)

(SCREAMING)

(BOTH SCREAMING)

(HUMMING)

(BICYCLE BELL RINGING)

(BOTH SCREAMING)

(GROANING)

(SIRENS APPROACHING)

The battle for

our worid has begun.

Captain, mobilize

the army.

Yes, sir!

Right, men,

move it!

(DRAMATIC NEWS MUSIC PLAYING)

Are they hostile?

Will our species survive?

One thing we do know is

that they show no respect

for our parking laws.

And speaking of survival,

how will you survive

without a sparkling smile?

# Give your smile

that special glow

# Try the sparkle action

of Dental Pro #

(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

You know, you're really

good as that toothbrush.

Yeah. But what I really

do best is a suppository.

Now, let's see.

Invasin by giant ants.

Invasin by sea monsters.

Invasin by

50-foot woman?

(BOTH GIGGLING SOFTLY)

Ah! Here it is, So, You've

Been Invaded by Aliens.

(SIGHS)

(HUMPHS INDIGNANTLY)

Keep your eyes

on the aliens.

Aliens?

All right, class,

let's try it one more time.

(SHRIEKING) The aliens

are coming!

Flarc, you were too slow.

Go join the zombies.

(HUMPHS)

I called it.

The only question is,

should I be terrified because

it's the end of the worid

or happy because

(GLOATING)

I totally called it?

Me, I have a plan.

They're gonna need

a native to run the mines.

I'll befriend them, show my

executive skills, and bam! I'm in.

Oh! Speaking

of "bam! I'm in..."

A cork?

It's your best defense against the

aliens' favorite form of research.

The probe.

You put it... Uh, yeah,

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. I think I get

it. Oh, wait. This is yours.

I already used that one.

(EXCLAIMS IN DISGUST)

I just remembered,

my job.

Oh! Gotta go.

You know, my boss.

Your boss? No problem.

You guys can share.

(CROAKING)

Uh, Neera,

you have to choose.

It's either me or Glar.

(IN HIGH-PITCHED VOICE)

Oh, Lem, there's no question.

It's you, of course.

(WHISTLING QUIETLY)

(WARBLING)

Huh?

(BOTH GASP)

(BOTH SCREAMING)

Come on! Come on! Come on!

Hello.

This is the alien hotline.

Yes. Hi.

I've found the alien.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) They're

here, and no weapon can stop them.

You've got to be kidding.

(BEEPING)

(SCREAMING)

(CLATTERING)

Hello?

Yes, hello.

I've found the alien!

If you've spotted

an alien fleet, dial 1.

For pod people,

dial 2.

(GASPING)

I can breathe!

I can breathe!

You speak my language.

That's amazing!

You speak my language.

Yeah. That's

what I just said.

You just said,

"That's what I just said."

Say something else. Like what?

"Like what."

They're gonna freak

back at Kennedy.

I'm Captain

Charles T. Baker, astronaut.

As-tro-nau-t.

Ass...

(CLEARS THROAT) Tro-naut.

(SLOWLY) Lem.

(ENUNCIATING SLOWLY) Lem.

Either your name is Lem,

or you want to mate with me.

Houston, we have

a little problem.

What do you want?

Thanks for asking.

Coffee, light,

two sugars.

Do you have any

Frappuccino up here?

Any puff pastry,

too. Thanks.

No, I mean are you here

to take over our worid

and, like, eat our brains?

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,

whoa, whoa! Hold on.

What kind of

sick planet is this?

First of all, it's supposed

to be uninhabited, okay?

Not full of sea monkeys

dancing to the oldies.

My missin was to plant Old

Glory, whack a few golf balls

and head back to the Kids'

Choice Awards. I'm getting slimed.

What? You were just talking alien.

Hey, I'm not the

alien here. You are.

Me? You are.

No, you are.

You are. You...

You came to my planet.

(STAMMERING)

An alien planet.

Hello!

Hello.

Not, "Hello."

"Hello!"

Hello... What?

What?

Huh?

Huh?

Huh?

Let's start over.

Look, there's a command module

in orbit right now.

It's running out of fuel.

It has to leave in 74 hours,

and if I'm not on it,

it goes back to Earth

without me. Capisce?

I have to get to my ship

and go back up in space.

Can you help me?

You want me to take you

to your flying saucer? No!

If they catch me helping you,

who knows what they'll do to me?

I'll lose everything. My

life was just getting perfect.

(SIGHING) Kid...

You are a kid, right?

I mean, you're not like a

thousand-year-old Yoda or anything?

Never mind. Look, kid,

you're my only hope.

But I suppose you

could leave me stranded.

My wife will have

to support the kids.

Eleven. We have 11 kids,

always hungry. Yeah. Yeah.

But, hey, they'll get

by without a father.

The important thing here

is you avoid

(MOCKINGLY)

A little trouble.

(NEW YORK ACCENT) Alien hotline.

What's the nature of your sighting?

Hello?

Are you there?

Hello? Are you there?

(WHISTLING)

Hey, fella.

Who wants a donut?

(YELPS)

(LAUGHING)

Silly dog!

(SIZZLING)

(HUMMING)

(GASPS)

(SNARLING)

(SCREAM BUILDING)

There's your flying saucer. Now what?

Okay, here's the plan.

You knock out that cop,

then you overpower those two.

You neutralize that one

and handcuff the big guy

to the steering wheel.

That's your plan? What

if they start shooting?

You're one of their own. They'll

probably just aim for your legs.

My legs?

Don't your legs

grow back?

No! We're not

like your kind, okay?

(SIGHS)

I'll tell you what,

eat this.

You become invincible.

Oh, good.

Then you do it.

I can't be seen breaking the

law. I've got the right stuff.

The what?

The right stuff.

It means I have

a lot of courage.

Now go!

Go on! Go! Go! Go!

(MARTIAL-ARTS GRUNTING)

Hey, Lem,

something wrong?

(CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY)

Left flank.

Move it! Move it!

As you can see, the army

is taking positions,

just like in

The War of the Worids,

getting ready for our

first close encounter

with invaders

from outer space.

Attention!

So they've come.

Captain!

Sir.

Have your men search

the flying saucer.

Yes, sir! Move!

Hazmat team, go!

Sir!

Now our brave soldiers are

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Joe Stillman

Joseph "Joe" Stillman (born August 1, 1959) is an American television and movie writer, producer and director. Before becoming a screenwriter he worked for several TV shows like Beavis and Butt-head, King of the Hill, Doug and The Adventures of Pete & Pete. Stillman's first screen credits were on Joseph: King of Dreams and his second on Shrek, both for DreamWorks. His most recent credits are on Planet 51 for TriStar and Gulliver's Travels for 20th Century Fox. more…

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