Monsters vs. Aliens review

It's Susan Murphy's wedding day.  Her groom is a self-absorbed Modesto weatherman, but Susan can't see how inappropriate he is for her until she's hit by a meteor-like object and becomes Ginormica, with an eventual host of four friends, "monsters" like her: a British-accented cockroach scientist, a blue blob, a hairy insect even bigger than she is, and a missing link of a lizardy thing. 

Part Gulliver's Travels and part Alice in Wonderland, the 3-D Monsters vs. Aliens is a coming-of-age story in which Susan not only rescues most of the galaxy but also discovers through her trials that her strength is internal as well as external.  A kind of feminist fairy tale, it could be paired with Shrek and any of the Alien series for lessons in the unimportance of superficial appearance and the fact that girls are not meant to be subservient.