You'd need to have a mighty inventive mind to think of combining Mad Magazine with 1950s monster movies and the film The Dirty Dozen, but that's exactly how two DreamWorks Animation directors started when they created the studios latest feature animation, Monsters vs Aliens. Conrad Vernon, one of Shrek 2's directors, had the idea of making a film told from monsters' points of view albeit in Mad Magazine style. Rob Letterman, one of the Shark Tale directors, wanted to create an animated feature with a Dirty Dozen plot. Put the two ideas together, and you have a story in which an Army officer, General W.R. Monger (Kiefer Sutherland), releases a team of imprisoned monsters to fight an alien menace. "We thought it was an interesting idea to give monsters personalities, hopes, and dreams, and take them down a comedic path," says Vernon.
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