Hey folks, that just fun!?

Rating: Null/10 (26 March 2002)

Why are people so misunderstanding this one? Emmerich and Devlin obviously played on several scores: apocalyptic War-of-the-worlds feeling, humor, some emotion, caricature and blatant satire... Well, they achieved pretty good. Not convinced?
**MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD** Ok, some obvious keys: director Emmerich's German, right? Why would (and how could?) he be the awful American-chauvinist-pig everybody tries to make him? Other keys, who are the heroes? A Black dude mouth-running pilot who flunked his Nasa selection, live with a stripper who seemingly used to be a celibate mother. Then a Jewish guy who spent 8 years in MIT to be nothing more than a cable-guy, and had been deserted by his wife who, in turn, got a brilliant career going. Well, those joyously caricatured 'minorities' backgrounds and personal history details spell M.I.S.F.I.T.S. Not your usual all-white-christian-American heroes. Come on.
And the rest? Well, a really good classic story with few weaknesses, solid characters, excellent F/X and sounds, hundreds of funny twisted ideas, well aimed dialogs and one-liners.
Definitely worth the (re)watch.