Men in black meets alien nation.

Rating: 9/10 (10 September 2009)

The first hour of the movie was meant to be funny. I was a funny mockumentary. The accents are very thick..of everyone. (Not all south Africans have such a thick accent, just some.) Vicus was not the brightest...etc.
I think a lot of people are missing the satire/ irony of aliens living in District 9 in South Africa until 17 years ago. Non-white South Africans were forcefully moved from one districts. e.g. district 6 to another district until the 1980s.
These apartheid laws etc. were mostly implemented and followed through by afrikaans people ( white people with the thick accent, Vicus van der Merwe is such a very typical Afrikaans name the other one is Kobus.) The awkward scenes are really funny and meant to be funny. Also the scenes where he gives candies to aliens / pops their eggs is very funny dark humor.
Comedy needs to be added to genre! so make it: Action <> Drama <> Sci-Fi <> Thriller AND comedy
If you don;t get this you might miss a * or ** from the movie and the first half might seem a bit boring. I find it is much more funny then Men in black actually. I could have watched 3h of the first part.
Please don;t expect another THE MATRIX / TERMINATOR / YOUR SCIFI MOVIE HERE experience. It will NOT WOW you in that way. I think it was also not that rounded off with the best sound tracks, best cast etc. But since it was so different to anything I have seen before, had no famous stars to support it, I still give it 9 stars.