Needs a New Direction

Rating: 7/10 (5 December 2012)

A visual treat served with a modicum of hit and miss humor and predictable buddy exchanges. This is a rather inoffensive ride through the Universe of over the top aliens and thinly realized villains.
The movie has enough entertainment value to be a successful entry in the Summer fun category, but is hampered by an unimaginative take on the save the world from an Alien invasion template. The otherworldly characters are typical CGI creations that have gone about as far as possible, attaining that in the first film, so what is left is a retread of retro looking rubber heads that have been around since TV's Star Trek.
The story does have some welcome twists and there is some fleshing out of the Agents, but if this bit of fluff is to have any more life in the future it may need to get just a bit more serious in its fading flimsiness, and become a bit more of a "Black Comedy".