Monsters vs. Aliens

...though it took a friend who knew I'd enjoyed the source film to point this series out to me.

Agreed, the inner Susan could be FAR better explored though the pilot episode does kinda-sorta explain her now-willfully variable ginormity.

But that's the price one pays for "media compression," especially when hyperkinetic slapstick is emphasized within mere minutes if not seconds per episode. It's supposed to be fun, and the slapstick is at times inspired, while every so often genuine wit still manages to surface (for example, an interesting take on educational television).

The creative team also likely felt it had to compensate for characterization by simply adding more aliens and giving the management and staff of Area Fifty-something more of a role. Fair enough, for we get more episodes for the effort.

The animation is good and the voice acting across the board is very good. But I need single out the actor who voices the alien Sta'abi and manages to turn the character's name into a singsong battle-cry with a Slavic dialect that just cracks me up each and every time.

Come on this show is one of the worst shows on Nickelodeon since 2013-2014, like i said before it ruined the 2009 movie of the same title good thing this show got cancelled in February 8th 2014 after the 1° season.

Not a very good idea to put the easter eggs and references from the penguins of madagascar tv series (bob mentions winkies, chuck charles exists, monger is reading a newspaper that has an ad from tpom) into another "Dreamworks" tv cartoon, which completely ruined the original movie, lore and other spin-offs.

Nickelodeon animation studio's are rocked the hell out of it as much as they're can, i don't think that Dreamworks approved and condone that trash.

P. S. The penguins of madagascar is also an overrated series, but the fact is that everyone liked the show at the time just because they hadn't seen anything like this before i'ts pretty enticing.

For a show thats literally called "monsters vs aliens" theres not a lot of monsters fighting aliens here. Its more like monsters LIVING with aliens and less-than-funny hijinks insue, but to be fair i guess that just doesnt roll off the tongue as good.

Also, what happened to insectosaurous?

I like the series, it is cute, absurd, and much better than any reality TV shows. The characters are a bit more juvenile, but that adds to the humor. The characters are more of themselves, enhancing the uniqueness of each. It is like watching the older TV series, it is humor for the sake of humor. There is no excess crudeness which many people today find funny. I hope that the show continues to be developed and more seasons added. Maybe, Dreamworks will make the sequel to the original movies. Sometimes, the characters are a bit too frantic, but it does add to the humor later on in the episode. Too many people are critical when a show does not have what they think it should have, just watch and enjoy the silliness.