Hi friend, her let me share about the story and theme of the recently released Hollywood film called as Planet 51. Indeed, it is my pleasure to share my experience about this film, because I really enjoyed this film and this is not an ordinary theme, in fact the story goes beyond universal feeling, as it explains the friendship between an Astronaut from Earth and a citizen of unknown planet, known as planet 51.
This film contains everything, from action, excitement, superb comedy sequence and more importantly the emotions at the climax, which really makes the film worth watching. And most importantly, this is an animated movie and story and the direction is absolutely good, and this will be a great entertainer not only for kids, but for everyone.
So before moving into the storyline let us discuss about “what is planet 51”? Well, it is simple and this planet resembles the earth in 1950’s and they are very strict about aliens (unfortunately, the humans are also aliens to them). Their look is somewhat similar to that of the aliens, but their head has an antenna like structure. Apart from this, the rest is same as that of earth, where they have cinema theatres, police patrol etc.
The opening of the film describes the way in which people enjoy in the planet and as matter of fact there is hardly any problem there. Interestingly instead of water drops, you can find small stones and it is considered as the rain there. The hero of our film is a character called “Lem” and he gets a job in a planetarium museum there and he is very happy and he has huge dreams about his future and also plans to make his dreams come true. He is also in love with his neighbour, Neera, but unfortunately he couldn’t express his love as he was disturbed always by Neera’s friend.
It was also shown that there is a place called “Base 9” where the aliens are kept as prisoners and they also remove the brains of aliens. However a robot called Rover, which was sent from Earth to take pictures about this planet since back in earth everybody thought that this was an inhabited planet, managed to escape form the Base 9 and it also collects sample specimens of the planet.
Fortunately for the robot, it discovers that a spaceship was coming from the earth, with an astronaut. So this computer programmed Robot’s new task is to find the location of this Astronaut. Lem’s best friend was Skiff and he become very close with the robot in the later part of the film and as a matter of fact Charles leave the robot in the planet as it was very much fond of Skiff.
Apart from Lem, another important character in the film is Captain Charles 'Chuck' Baker, an astronaut form NASA, and he lands in this planet, thinking that it is an inhabited planet. After landing, he plants the American flag in the planet, before realizing that he was not alone. This is a very very funny situation, when Bakers sees the people of the Planet 51, because both of them were surprised, shocked and frightened which made Charles to run like anything and he hid himself in the planetarium, where Lem was working.
Then the rest of the story deals with the friendship that develops between Lem and Charles. At first instant Lem was also afraid, but later after the explanation given by Charles, Lem started to believe him and also promised to take Charles to his spaceship. But by this time the army team of that planet captures the spaceship and this is a great hurdle for them. So just get entertained and be amazed to know how they find the spaceship.