Can you tolerate the joke?

Rating: Null/10 (27 July 2004)

I confess: I actually kinda like this flick. And I understand people who hate it (both the film and my liking to it), very well. This isn't a *proper* flick to continue the alien - saga. This is more like a hack'n'slash - parody of the whole thing, more fitting for us gore hounds and slasher fans than the ones who like the serious cyberpunk/sci-fi/horror - tone of the first two. The approach of director Jeunet to Aliens (TM) is truly very different from what we have seen in the first three: it's optimistic (almost up to a point of being 'lighthearted'); highly enlighten instead of things happening in the dark; and way too grislingly blood'n'guts-gory to be taken seriously. Instead of horror we've got one-liners like for crying out loud! To sum it up: check this out ONLY if you can tolerate a sequel that - in a 'good way' (if there is one) - gets its drive by throwing cream cakes at its predecessors.