A GREEN, glowing meteorite lands on Susan Murphy (voiced by Reese Witherspoon) on her wedding day, shortly before she is due to tie the knot to self- obsessed TV weatherman Derek.

Before Derek can say “I do”, Susan grows in size to an impressive 49ft 11in tall. Wedding guests flee and Susan is herded to a military facility controlled byGeneral WR Monger (Kiefer Sutherland).

There, she meets fellow captives including brilliant inventor Dr Cockroach PhD (Hugh Laurie), half-ape half-fish The Missing Link, indestructible gelatinous mass BOB (Seth Rogen) and a 350- foot-long grub called Insectosaurus. When megalomaniac alien Gallaxhar plots to destroy mankind, President Hathaway issues an order to free the monsters and set them upon the invader from another planet. Monsters Vs Aliens is a blast from its eye- popping start to uproarious finish.

The script borrows heavily from The Incredibles, with nods to countless B- movies, but there are enough flashes of invention and a smattering of heartfelt emotion to bring a tear to the eye.

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True Blood – First Season (18)

ALAN BALl, creator of Six Feet Under, travels to Bon Temps, Louisiana for this stylish 12-part series about forbidden and fanged desires, which proves vampires are all the rage. Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) is a bloodsucker who has “come out of the coffin” and now lives amongst the mortals thanks to synthetic blood. One such human is telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), who works all hours at Merlotte’s bar and is tired of having to listen in to other people’s thoughts. She is irresistibly drawn to Bill because she cannot hear what he is thinking. The blood pumping through Sookie’s veins makes her an attractive proposition to Bill. Meanwhile, her brother Jason becomes the prime suspect for a serial murder case when his ex-girlfriends turn up dead.

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Last Chance to See (Exempt)

HE’S no David Attenborough – and nor does he pretend to be – but Stephen Fry’s enthusiasm and bumbling amateurism are what help make this series a worthy addition to the natural history pantheon. Fry follows in the footsteps of his late friend Douglas Adams – of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fame – who travelled the globe in the 80s in search of the world’s most threatened animals. Fry enlists Adams’s companion on that trip, zoologist Mark Carwardine, to provide the knowledge for his own journey 20 years on. Some of the most startling parts of the series are when the pair discover animals under threat in the 80s have disappeared altogether, like the Yangtze river dolphin. Like all wildlife series, the animals and the camera work are the real stars as the pair get up close and personal with Komodo dragons, White Rhinos and, after a week-long ocean search, with Blue Whales, much to Fry’s delight.