Avoid if you're not a moron!

Rating: 1/10 (11 January 2010)

The world has gone mad. How on earth this film has gained such a high score is beyond me. It is laugh-out-loud DREADFUL. The premise is reasonably interesting, but it is executed in a ridiculous fashion. There is nothing remotely realistic in this film, despite the pseudo-documentary feel to the early parts.
Here's what you do get: A man who looks remarkably like Spike Jonze running around the slums of South Africa, swearing in what sounds like a cross between Liverpudlian and Glaswegian, whilst waving a rubber hand at various extras from the cantina scene in Star Wars. (I'm sure I saw Jar Jar Binks riding a bantha in the background). Don't be fooled by anybody telling you there is a deep, brilliant allegory here to race relations. This draws as meaningful a connection to apartheid as The Hottie and the Nottie does to the atrocities at Auschwitz.
District 9 is up there with the most bemusing experiences I've had in the cinema. People came out of this film raving about it. I came out wanting to punch myself in the face. Now I've calmed down I want to punch them in the face instead. AVOID THIS MOVIE.