PG13 means you're not the target audience, old man. :-) NO SPOILERS.

Rating: Null/10 (18 August 2004)

If you're 13 or thereabouts I'm sure you loved this movie. The young kids in the movie theater I was in thought it was good. If your older (like me) and loved the first movies first time round just deal with the fact that this movie wasn't made with you in mind. It's like the 'new' Star Wars movies. They already have your dollars guaranteed before the movie comes out. They're looking for younger dollars and rightly or wrongly they clearly believe that younger dollars don't want a two hour epic like ALIENS when ALIENS already exists. Get over that and you'll be fine.
I went expecting what I ended up getting; a fun hour and a half. The movie cuts to the chase as quickly as possible, reducing most of the cast to walking cannon fodder but there you go. I personally found it refreshing to have the creatures center stage instead of Ripley or Dutch. The creatures are excellent, as are the fights.
The 'twists' in the plot aren't all that twisty but at an hour and a half they keep you zooming along until the end and like I said before, I'm sure it's twisty enough for the average 13 year old.
Go in knowing that and allow yourself to just enjoy how good it all looks.