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A couple of trailers for Tri-Star's 3D animation Planet 51 have landed at planet Yahoo.

The topsy-turvey plot sees Dwaynetherockjohnson's all American astronaut making first contact with a planet Just Like Ours, except that the inhabitants are green.

Which, on paper, sounds like a lot of saccharine "we're all the same in our hearts" nonsense, but in the digital flesh appears loads more fun. For a start, the alien society looks like a pastel Edward Scissorhands 1950s. Then there's the way the film seems to be inverting ET, with Dwayne finding himself as the alien, befriending some sympathetic local kids, and trying to find his way home. And there's the miltary commander who is channelling Zapp Brannigan.

And any film that casts an HR Giger xenomorph as a lapdog has got to be worth seeing (you get a better glimpse in the second, shorter trailer). 

US audiences get Planet 51 for Thanksgiving weekend, and it arrives in the UK on December 4th. 

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