Planet 51 [updated]

When American astronaut (voiced by Dwayne Johnson) lands his spacecraft, he expects to plant a flag on an empty, uncharted rock. Instead, he steps out into an idyllic, green-skinned society modeled exactly after 1950s suburban America .

General Grawl (Gary Oldman) represents the archetype of the paranoid, iron-fisted military leader straight out of The Day the Earth Stood Still . His obsession with dissecting the astronaut’s brain reflects the classic Roswell-era government cover-up conspiracies. Planet 51