drop the family

Rating: 5/10 (9 December 2005)

I think the dysfunctional family should have been scrapped. The film dragged in several places by dealing with members of the family. I would like to think that a great director like Spielberg would have seen this weakness in the film. I think a single hero type character would have been more interesting and certainly less boring than the one that he used. I thought the special effects were very good except that some of the scenes had that fake computer generated look to them. I think that the invasion in the 1953 picture was more realistic in that those three legged machines would have had a hard time staying hidden for a long period of time.