Simplistic and way over-rated

Rating: 2/10 (11 August 2002)

While it does have its moments, the acting is tolerable, and the kids are cute, the movie is basically a cliché. It offers nothing new, insightful, or surprising.
Given that it's a huge budget movie with a big name cast, you would think that if might offer something special in the way of visual or sound FX or the music. Nothing but cliché here either. Blair Witch camera work borrowed for suspenseful scenes and typical alien sound FX. Even the music is essentially a copy of the X-Files theme.
I'm not giving it the lowest rating possible simply because all the technical aspects of a film are taken care of.