Notraxxs

This movie gets it right with a few exceptions. I'm not here to talk about the few exceptions -- okay, the villain is pretty weak. You could teach a dozen different classes on the themes and imagery of this movie. But what were they thinking? A $150 million budget on a cerebral science fiction movie that continues the plot thread of a 35 yo cult classic? I would be hard-pressed to green-light this picture at half that budget. As an audience member, I made out, and I had to watch a half dozen trailers of stupid sh*t blowing up and people yelling things like "there is no cure!" Sometimes I feel like we don't deserve movies like these. I'm glad it got made, don't get me wrong. But I think they just shot themselves in the foot.

Whoever wrote this thing really did a disservice to kids. Do they act in this sort of illogical and ludicrous fashion? Granted this movie puts these children in a ludicrous situation, but their actions and their dialogue never had me, not even for a second. With meteorites falling, a house flying through space, and monsters attacking, are children going to launch into dialogue about respect and love? And this is my major beef with this movie. It had a pretty cool concept going, but the dialogue rings hollow and there just isn't enough substance between these two kids to carry it. The writers don't give the Zach Braff lookalike anything to work with and everyone else is throwaway. 4/10 for cool CGI and a little twist at the end.

I guess this is the kind of film you see when you are a teenager and think: "Wow, this is really in touch with my generation". Boy did I miss that boat. Sitting in a room, in a hostel, in Budapest, I watched this movie and then experienced one of the worst nights of sleep I've ever had (2 and a half hours to be exact). Americans came barging into the room at 2 in the morning and proceeded to make out in each other's beds for the next 5 hours. When I left at 6am the following morning two thoughts were racing(actually more like plodding) through my head: "I hate American teenagers and I hate this movie." I can't list anything redeeming about this movie, and frankly I'm wasting my time trying to care enough to write a paragraph about this amateurfest. It was the perfect movie for my hellnight in Budapest.