Telling you what to watch...Independance Day!

We Love Independence Day! It was a great movie, it what movies should be. A big spectacle with good actors and beautifully made. It is not what cinephiles would call art but the large movie going population wants to pay to see. The acting was so good, witty dialogue, a new concept for the plot that had not been done to death, the theme was simple; survival.  That movie kick started the disaster movie genre, gave us Will Smith as big box office draw,  it had a kick as soundtrack. the only thing that it didn't give us was a bare chested Jeff Goldblum (guess only Spielberg has that kind of vision).

So twenty years later we went to see the sequel, We were excited. twenty years to build off the lore of a locust alien race that gave us lines like this:  

President Whitmore: I know there is much to learn from each other if we can make a truce. We can find a way to Co-exist. can there be a peace between us?
Alien: Peace? NO PEACE!
President Whitmore: What is it you want us to do?
Alien: Die…die…

The movie was full of great lines like that:

Albert Nimzicki: Two words, Mr. President: "Plausible deniability".

Anchorman: Once again, the L.A.P.D. is asking Los Angelenos not to fire their guns at the visitor spacecraft. You may inadvertently trigger an interstellar war.  

Julius Levinson: What's the matter with you?
David Levinson: Genius.

And "welcome to Earth, What the hell is that smell?, I know you just didn't shot the green shit at me, I guess I'll leave this with you"

Sorry, back to the sequel

We are sorry to say that it seems the only thing the sequel gave us was a lighter wallet. It followed a disturbing trend in  Hollywood called "lets pretend the other move didn't happen that way" or "the writers never saw the first move" syndrome. (for more information on this check with our friend Auntie Meme [full disclosure, she is not really a friend; we are kind of stalking her]) The plot went from an alien race that moves its civilization from planet to planet, using up resources and leaving destruction in its wake to a mining operation. It went from a biblical disaster flick to Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

The CGI was cartoon quality, it didn't seem to react to the environment. The acting was cartoon quality; it didn't seem to react to the environment. The dialogue was cartoon quality, the words didn't seem to react to the environment. It was a bad movie, not just because we loved the first one so much but it wasn't good. The new characters were one trick ponies and mostly annoying. You couldn't really root for any of them outside of they were good looking. the new side kicks were even more annoying and had no purpose.

And still no Shirtless Goldblum