Title: "Independence Day" if everybody had been a total moron
Review: There are certain things out there you simply cannot make humorous; one of them is the destruction of Earth, Douglas Adams notwithstanding.If there was ever a movie that needed a "Mystery Science Theater 3000" smart-aleck commentary overlay, this is it. Nobody is worth rooting for, not the kid who thinks the Martians are making "the international sign of the doughnut" in their initial broadcast to Earth and thinks we should all live in teepees, not the trigger-happy general who gets shrunken by the Martians and then stepped on, not even the senile grandmother who accidentally discovers that Slim Whitman music causes the Martians' heads to explode. For a film that's supposedly set in the late 1990s, the military equipment featured is from the 1950s. It's a classic example of what James Blish called the Idiot Plot, and would slap you in the face repeatedly while you watch it if it could.
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