Comedy duo Key & Peele perfectly skewered the flick – 26 years after the fact – in a recent sketch. Speaking of Mowgli and his siblings, Joe Dante’s utterly bonkers sequel to his beloved 1984 original ditched the darker tones for silly slapstick. Flies are definitely attracted to garbage. Independence Day’s Jeff Goldblum was wisely uninvolved with this very bad sequel to David Cronenberg’s classic horror thriller, directed by special effects makeup artist (and Gremlins creator) Chris Walas. Someone forgot to tell that to the people behind this unnecessary and insipid sequel to the dumb but fun tale of two coworkers who use their dead boss as a free pass for a hedonistic Hamptons weekend. The more you repeat a joke, the less funny it becomes. As disappointing as Independence Day: Resurgence may be, here are a dozen sequels that make the alien invaders look like the work of Spielberg, Scorsese or the Coen brothers. It’s not funny, it’s not interesting, the computer-generated special effects are big but boring… ultimately it doesn’t live up to the original, which was not exactly a masterpiece to begin with. ![]() The problem is that Independence Day: Resurgence just isn’t very good. Plus, the story makes a weird sort of sense, with the aliens returning 20 years later to take another shot at kicking our planet’s butt. ![]() Despite Will Smith passing on the sequel (due to scheduling conflicts, he says, although maybe he just figured his cinematic stock was too high), the movie is trading on that most valuable of Hollywood commodities: nostalgia. Independence Day: Resurgence should have been a home run. But it also had Will Smith, famous buildings blowing up (through old-school miniature effects, no less) and lots of heart. The 1996 alien invasion movie Independence Day was full of unapologetic cheese, lots of scenery chewing and some pretty dubious logic.
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