The new Dreamworks movie, Home,

commits all of the worst sins of animated alien design.

I explain how on this week's episode of Angry Nerd.

First, your comments.

Spencer Whiteway says Beetlejuice 2 is confirmed,

what do you think about that?

Spencer I think I've been hurt too many times

to believe it until I see a trailer.

Michael Keaton confirms that he'd love

to do a sequel someday maybe.

Tim Burton confirms that he's kicking around

script ideas or something.

Stop teasing us.

So, by all rights, I should love Home.

The kids book that it's based on is a hoot.

Steve Martin lends his voice

and the Director has done some great animated comedies.

But here's the thing, I hate the look of the aliens in Home.

Hate, hate, hate.

They are squat purple slabs with no sharp edges

and no interesting features.

Like so many CG aliens in all ages cartoon films

they are designed to look cuddly and non-threatening

but they end up looking like boring CAD-designed blob-jects.

I mean, just look at Home, Escape from Planet Earth,

Planet 51, Battle for Terror,

also why are they always green, or purple or blue?

See, Toy Story's cute simple aliens were funny

because they were so generic and indistinguishable.

A stranger.

From the outside.

[Crowd] Ooooh.

Imagine if those alien characters were expected

to carry a feature film, it's like the film-makers

are trying to make their alien life-forms appealing

and non-threatening, like ET was, but they seem to have

forgotten that ET is actually kind of squeaky and horrifying

when you first seem him.

(screams)

See her, see it?

Does ET have a gender?

Where's the H.R. Giger of cute,

kid-friendly extraterrestrials?

The worst CG animated film ever,

by several light years in a parsec is Mars Needs Moms,

and its problems are all down

to its god-awful alien design.

Oh come on.

Look, at, what were they...?

As cute, kid-friendly characters they fail

but they manage to loop around to the other

end of the spectrum and become really disturbing.

Disney, slap those characters in a horror movie

and maybe you can make back

some of the tens of millions that movie lost.

You know what animated alien strikes a perfect balance

between cute and other-worldly and menacing?

Stitch.

Now why is it still so much harder to do that with

warehouse size render farms than with a paper and pencil?

What's your least favorite movie alien design?

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How many times have I gotta tell you?

You're going to make the universe

fold in on itself you dimwit.