But for all that massy weightiness, it is to the film’s credit that it always takes time to reassure us of the safety of a little dog.Ĭast: Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Liam Hemsworth, Maika Monroe, Jessie T. Emmerich and his visual effects teams pull out all the stops, and there’s a glorious abysmal beauty in never-ending shots of continent-wide spaceships landing and mayhem being wreaked. The whole point of this franchise is watching a lot of alien butt get kicked, and their slimy scrawny tushes are well and truly whopped here in gloriously rendered, hyper-realistic detail.
In any case, few will come seeking a politically correct representation of a utopian future. (No one bats an eye over the 20-year age gap between them, so some things are pretty much the same in this alternative universe.) The female characters get slightly better positions and plotlines this time round, what with the female president, lady fighter pilots - not just Patricia but also Angelababy’s top girl gun Rain from China and Charlotte Gainsbourg is on hand as a psychiatrist love interest for Goldblum’s Levinson. But at least she got to be a doctor, an improvement over her stripper job in the first film. Fox) before she must suffer a fate like so many others on the planet.
There’s barely time to work in Dylan’s mother ( Vivica A. He apparently perished in a test flight years before, which heroically covers up Smith’s absence from the cast, although he’s hardly missed with such a crowded roster. Usher), the son of Will Smith’s character from ID4. Both are friends with Dylan Hiller (Jessie T. Ready to take her on is a new generation of feisty, trigger-happy young’uns, including war orphan turned hotshot pilot Jake Morrison (Liam Hemsworth), who’s engaged to Whitmore’s all-grown-up daughter Patricia (the compelling Maika Monroe, from It Follows), a soldier in her own right. Along with Goldblum’s Levinson, returning characters include now former President Whitmore (Bill Pullman), who’s suffering from Alien Residual Condition, a kind of post-traumatic syndrome but with telepathic torment thrown in for good measure. The action toggles regularly back and forth between various locales in inner and outer space.
Woods, James Vanderbilt and Emmerich himself - have made surprisingly light work of meshing together a plot thick with incident and characters new and old. Many screenwriting hands - Dean Devlin, Nicolas Wright, James A. (She calls our civilization “primitive” because we still have bodies.)
They look like Eve in Pixar’s WALL-E crossed with a giant volleyball, but with the voice of a teenage girl and a not dissimilar attitude. Turns out he’s right: There is a third set of ETs floating about, which take the form of shiny white levitating orbs. At least she gives the order with a heavy heart, even though chief alien detection expert David Levinson (a returning Jeff Goldblum) advises against destroying the newcomer because it doesn’t look like it was made by the same alien race. president ( Sela Ward).Įven though the upside of the last alien invasion is apparently that we’ve had 20 years of peaceful coexistence and no war, it would seem that America is still top dog because it’s Madam President who gets the deciding vote as to whether to shoot the crap out of a new alien spacecraft when it appears on the horizon. It’s 20 years on from the events of the first film, and on an alternative version of Earth there are hover planes using some kind of anti-gravity gizmo, observatories and defense systems on the moon, while a Hillary Clinton-like woman serves as U.S. Huge, leggy insectoid queens - and no, we’re not talking about drag superstars - are at the center of the sequel.
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