War of the Teenagers

Rating: 1/10 (22 March 2010)

Ah! Only a genius would be able to transform a tale of invasion by aliens into a family drama, and that is what Spielberg did with The War of the Worlds.
WOTW has nice special effects but everything else is major wreck.
None of the characters in the movie is sympathetic, one does no feel the need to root for them. In fact after a while, I was hoping that they would be destroyed by the Martians.
The whole story revolves around a divorced father and his two teenager kids, who were one of the most obnoxious children I've seen in movies. They are nothing more than two spoiled idiots that instead of shutting up and following simple orders kept on nagging, complaining and having tantrums... If they were my kids I would have given them to the Martians.
So, instead of showing aliens, battles against an alien invader, we are given a pretty tedious family drama.
The original made more than 50 years ago,as usual, was better than this "family-oriented" politically-correct version of the "The War of the Worlds"