Like Big League Chew for the mind.

Rating: Null/10 (16 August 2004)

yeh.... it's bubblegum... but so what... it's damn tasty... I'd say this flick is my second favorite of the alien flicks.... is Sanaa any less two-dimensional then Sanchez or Newt? While she doesn't have the emotional resonance of the characters on the Nostromo... she still moves well and doesn't distract from the battle between aliens and predators.
I found myself looking for stuff like 'earlier blowholes' from 1904... stuff that doesn't quite seem consistent with earlier flicks.... but then... i just got into it and started loving the eyecandy... this film is as visually resonant as the first movie... just not as deep.... if Alien was a bubblegum ice cream cake.... Alien vs. Predator is a bag of Big League Chew... damn tasty in it's own right... just not a mind-blowing piece of brain candy.
Favorite moment? cross-section of the alien's brain. Least favorite moment? that whole predator scar marking garbage... chick getting off on being recognized by a species that used to sacrifice humans for sport.