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Planet 51

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Planet 51

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Featured in

    • "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" Jessica Biel/Super Dave Osborne/John Fogerty (TV Episode 2009)

      Clips featured during Jessica Biel's interview.

    • "Siskel & Ebert" The Worst Films of 2009 (TV Episode 2010)

      One of their picks.

    • Life on Planet 51 (Video 2010)

      extensive footage shown

    • Great Movie Mistakes 2: The Sequel (TV Movie 2011)

      Clips of mistakes shown

    • Starfilm (2017)

      An excerpt featuring stars (of the celestial kind) is shown.

Referenced in

    • "Bad Movie Beatdown" The Tooth Fairy (TV Episode 2012)

      another family movie featuring Dwayne Johnson

    • "AniMat's Reviews" Hotel Transylvania (TV Episode 2012)

      Animat says the premise of Hotel Transylvania sounds like a ripoff of this film.

    • "AniMat's Reviews" Escape from Planet Earth (TV Episode 2013)

      AniMat says Escape from Planet Earth is like this film, except with no originality.

    • "Hewy's Animated Movie Reviews" Moana (TV Episode 2016)

      Hewy mentions Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson in stinkers

    • "Nostalgia Critic" Norm of the North (TV Episode 2017)

      poster shown

References

    • Sergeant York (1941)

      One of the alien soldiers is named "Sergeant York."

    • The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

      You can see the word Nikto as the name of a store

    • Singin' in the Rain (1952)

      About halfway through, Rover is running through the street when it starts to rain rocks. The tune "Singin' in the Rain" plays, and Rover does a dance around a lamppost like Gene Kelly

    • Them! (1954)

      The town has a plan for attacks by giant ants

    • The Seven Year Itch (1955)

      An alien girl tries to hold down her white dress as a vent blows up air, just like the iconic shot of Marilyn Monroe in "The Seven Year Itch."

Spin-off

    • Planet 51: The Game (Video Game 2009)

Spoofs

    • The War of the Worlds (1953)

      The film that Eckle watches at the beginning of the movie (which was Humaniacs II) parodies a scene from the movie

    • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

      Chuck sings the theme song while planting the flag, his ship is called "Odyssey" and resembles a compressed Discovery.

    • Grease (1978)

      Singing Greased Lightning

    • Alien (1979)

      Alien "Pet" resembles the alien here. It also has an acid urine, a reference to the acid blood the alien has.

    • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

      Buck tries to run away and he and a kid go flying in front of a full moon. Also, when the rover is captured, it is held in a room with an enterance similar to the one used on E.T.

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