Interesting if you don't think about it too much

Rating: 6/10 (26 August 2009)

I found this movie visually interesting and pretty exciting in parts, but the plot holes were so numerous and so large I can't give it a great review.
The aliens had been on Earth for 20 years, but it seems no one knew anything about them. Why had they come? Why had their ship not moved? Why had they needed to be released from their ship? Who was the captain? Why, if they had these great weapons, had they never used them? Hadn't ANY earthling learned anything about the alien technology? Why had "Christopher" been in hiding for 20 years? Wasn't it tremendously coincidental that the moment Christopher finished harvesting the secret fluid was the same moment he was being evicted? How is it that fluid that somehow energized the alien ship also had the property to transmutate Wickus? (Was that the same secret, amazing fluid -- in black form -- Mr. Spock used in this year's Star Trek? I haven't seen the new Harry Potter yet, but am I going to see more secret, wonderful fluid there? -- perhaps in green?) What was the deal with cat food? If you have an extremely short term memory problem, you might like District 9. Otherwise, wait for the video game.