Insipid: Aliens is Alien but with more Aliens

Rating: 5/10 (25 August 2008)

It was a total disappointment for me. Why? Parallel plot to Alien 1, but without any surprise, nor horror or anxiety atmosphere.
It's almost the same script:
*-At the beginning everybody ignores Ripley, then she turns to be the heroine. Of course she has more abilities than any trained soldier. *-At the beginning everybody underestimate the real danger, then are wiped out. *-Same characters, the one to hate worried about science/money, the hysteric, the brute/warrior. *-If in the first movie a cat survives, and nobody knows why, in the second is the turn to the cute girl. Once you see her, you know she is gonna make it. *-The end the same: same last destruction of the complex, same alien in the last ship believing they are safe, same way to kill it.
So you end with the same storyline but without the surprise elements:
*-You know already the Alien. In the first it's totally uncertain. The only way to give more excitement is simple: more aliens. *-The characters are so recognizable, who is important who is not, that almost you can predict the order of their death. *-Another Robot. In the first movie he was the bad + Ripley hates immediately Bishop = the robot is good in this movie. *-So who is the bad? Again the one that is friendly, so predictable. *-The anguish in the first is achieved because they are in the space, unnatural environment for humans, and without no way to scape. In the second they are on ground settled in a base. *-There is no way Ripley, a child, and a paralytic robot, could avoid being vacuum by the space. *-James Cameron hasn't any original idea in this movie.
Conclusion: the title is perfectly chosen, Aliens is Alien but with more Aliens. It would be a good movie if the first didn't exist. Because it does, Aliens is not a good movie.