Best enjoyed with a sausage sarnie!

Rating: 10/10 (17 January 2016)

An excellent 'Bridget Jones' style chick flick starring the always irritating William Smith. Set in the mid nineties we see earth visited by a large number of obnoxious aliens. Arriving in America unannounced and lacking visas, passports and other travel documents, the aliens are turned away. Angered by the decision the aliens start to get a tad rowdy, blowing things up and generally becoming a nuisance. This kind of bad behaviour isn't to be tolerated, not in America and certainly not in China who as we know are a very respectful race. Someone needs to tell the aliens enough is enough it's time to pack up and go home or apply for a travel visa through the correct channels. The stage is set for a hero and we are treated to four of them. A pilot (Will Smith), a scientist (Geoffrey Goldbloom), a paranoid schizophrenic (Randy Quaid) and hilariously the president of America (Bill Pulman). Smith gets the ball rolling by catching an alien an dishing out a viscous beating, knocking the terrified alien unconscious and fracturing it's cheek bone. Smith high on a mixture of adrenaline and painkillers teams up with Goldbloom and steals an alien ship in a bid to destroy the aliens mothership. With Smith and Goldbloom gone, it's left up to our schizophrenic and the president to lead the world in a battle to end the anti social loutish behaviour of the aliens. Quaid clearly very confused and possessing no flight training what so ever, attempts to leave with the aliens, driving a plane up to the aliens ship he screams 'hello boys I'm back' indicating he is on friendly terms with several of the aliens or has simply been drinking heavily. Tragically however his lack of training forces him to lose control of his plane at a critical moment crashing into the alien ship causing an obscene amount of damage and countless alien casualties. Eventually the aliens tire of the hard line approach adopted by the American government and simply toddle off home, tails between their legs but pride very much intact. A must watch film for the whole family and an Oscar winning performance from Quaid!