Changing Places.('Monsters vs. Aliens' and 'Shall We Kiss?')(Movie review)

To what period does "Monsters vs. Aliens" belong? It is set in the present day, but its snout is pointed proudly at the future. The skills it employs, in its capacity as the latest animated feature from DreamWorks, could not be more gleamingly new. Yet something about this movie suggests that it was made by people who have never, deep down, accepted the fact that America has moved on from the nineteen-fifties--from the days in which Saturday night meant gazing through your windshield at "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman." In short, she's back, and this time she's digital.

At the beginning, she is a female of regular size, by the name of Susan. We start on her wedding ...