Knock knock who's there? Oh, I see, you're made of wood...

Rating: Null/10 (15 June 2004)

A suitably stiff performance from Bill 'Cardboard' Pullman, with his stapled on, excrement-eating smirk proves almost as irritating as Margaret Colin's Brooklyn accent ("Doivid, Doivid"), but fortunately help is at hand with excellent showings from Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum and the aliens who give far more realistic performances than Pullman. Some of the special effects are excellent, others (such as the cartoon style explosions) are atrocious, but it's a lot of fun from start to finish at any rate. Judd Hirsch is good as Goldblum's father, whilst Mary McDonnell's cheesy overacting wouldn't look out of place in one of DW Griffith's epics; she almost (but only almost) makes Pullman look good - maybe that's why some "schliemiel" dreamed up the idea of putting them together in the film.