The MarketSaw blog posted these images from Ilion’s upcoming animated movie “Planet 51″ last year, but, well, I didn’t get to it then, but I’m getting to them now. The blog also had videos from the movie, but they had to remove it when Ilion “asked” them to — i.e. do it or we’ll sue you. You know, the same crap these movie studios always pull for the sake of maintaining some semblance of control. As if, right? Once it hits the Internet, you can forget about it, movie studios. Anyhoo, here are the pics that were released last year.

The inhabitants of Planet 51 live in fear of alien invasion. Their paranoia is realized when an astronaut arrives from Earth. Befriended by a young resident, he has to avoid capture in order to recover his spaceship and try to return home.

With voice work by Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, and Seann William Scott.

Check out our constantly updated “Planet 51″ Movie Images Gallery.