content: This movie, for me, was a disapointment. Good special effects, yes, but that only goes so far. This was also some sort of send-up of sci-fi movies of the past, but they played it so straight-faced the actors come off looking more like cliches than anything else. The dialogue was laughable and you knew what was going to happen before it did. "Mars Attacks" is a way better movie to me because they went all the way with the camp humor and sci-fi references and it came out as it should be: a lot of fun. This movie tried that, but it also tried to be dramatic at the same time, so it failed at both.