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Title: A travesty of the John Wyndham book.
Review: I wouldn't normally waste time on something this bad, and I'll waste as little as possible here. This movie is a remake of the superb 1960's movie, and both are based on John Wyndham's 'The Midwich Cuckoos'. Please, please do yourself a favour and read the book. If you've already seen or get to see Carpenter's movie, you'll suddenly be able to understand many points that he has left obscure or obliterated through cheap tricks and fumbling attempts to 'update' the story. And you'll appreciate Wyndham's exceptional intelligence, imagination, and uncanny ability to capture a community's time and place and its reaction to the incomprehensible.
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