dumbest SF movie in a VERY long time!

Rating: 2/10 (18 April 2009)

HUGE alien spaceships make an appearance.
Hundreds of CGI techs overload their MACs generating titanic explosions that wipe out cities in tedious slow motion, while a few important characters in the plot save themselves from the total destruction by jumping into a subway maintenance closet.
Then--the Armed Forces attacketh! Once again above mentioned computer techs overload their programs (and the movie screen) with thousands of CGI-generated alien space ships.
The President acts noble. Throw in his dying wife and a dog to add a little artificial drama.
A computer geek and his Jewish dad make an appearance. The Jewish dad is cantankerous and feisty at just the right moments in the movie, to add some comic relief.
An air force pilot amazingly masters a totally alien technology in about 1 minute of on screen time to learn to fly one of the spaceships.
The computer geek accompanies him and singlehandedly wipes-out the alien's with a laptop; by uploading a virus that crashes the nasty ET's Windows OS (didn't these guys bother to check for Microsoft updates once in a while?) Thaaaaaats ALL, Folks!! Except for the audience leaving the theater with permanent hearing loss from the endless Dolby Surround-sound explosions.