For those of you hoping that there would be a Monsters Vs. Aliens sequel, bad news for you today.  It’s just not going to happen.  Sorry, that’s it, game over, at least for now.

Apparently despite the fact that this essentially decent cartoon cleared nearly two hundred million at the box office worldwide, and picked up who knows how much cash on DVD, that wasn’t enough for Dreamworks, who went on record with this:

“I’d like to tell you there’s a perfectly rational, clear and easy answer as to why not, but there isn’t,” studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg told a group of industry analysts on Tuesday. “There was enough of a consensus from our distribution and marketing folks in certain parts of the world that we would be pushing a boulder up a hill.”

They make some sense, actually–what were they going to do, have more monsters?  Bring back the rest of the aliens?  No, they probably pretty much did all they could here, and so they called it quits while they were very, very much ahead.  A prudent move for Katzenberg et al.