DEFINITELY worth your time.

Rating: 10/10 (27 August 2009)

More than just Science Fiction.
No spoilers here. I went in to the theater house to watch District 9 with basically no knowledge or idea of the movie's premise. I had only seen the movie's preview and it's various forms of viral marketing around town and on the web.
I was pleasantly surprised to say the least.
Many here on IMDb have already noted the movie's excellent use of CGI and use of "mockumentary" story telling, so I will not further elaborate on that, but I must say, I enjoyed the socio-political message behind District 9 the most.
Blomkamp, Jackson, and company did an EXCELLENT job of portraying these CGI "prawns" with wonderful Human emotions. I loved the way Blomkamp and company allowed the extraterrestrial race to essentially express traits that were so compelling, you would actually forget that these creatures were from another world and yet at the same time, no different than us Human beings here on Earth. I was also taken aback with how clever and original District 9 portrays the level of nationalism and xenophobia that pits Human beings against "illegal aliens" and also parallels the VERY REAL world problem of the treatment of "illegal" immigrants. We seem to forget that people from elsewhere in this world that "illegally" make their way in to another country are also in fact, Human, and should be treated as nothing less than such.
It is a plague that affects humanity, indeed.
District 9 reminds the viewer that despite cultural differences, differences in behavior, differences in appearance, differences in country of origin, galaxy of origin, that we are all similar, and that compassion and tolerance should never be ignored... Especially by the self- proclaimed most "intelligent" and "complex" species here on planet Earth.
Much more than just Science Fiction.