Welcome to Earth -- Let Me Apologize for Will Smith

Rating: 5/10 (17 June 2009)

A throwback to those stupid disaster films from the 1970s that spend the first hour of the movie introducing a bunch of famous celebrities and the next hour putting them in peril to our delight.
This disaster film is especially dumb, however, and its aggressively patriotic attitude borders on the offensive in retrospect. No wonder other countries think Americans are a bunch of loud-mouthed boors.
The all-star cast features Bill Pullman as our nation's president (God help us all), Mary McDonnell as his first lady, Will Smith (who grows old fast), Judd Hirsch, Jeff Goldblum, Margaret Colin, etc., etc.
The film achieves what it sets out do to, but just know that it set its own bar extremely low.
Grade: C