Film is forever.
No Giger-esque, drooling, tentacled creatures for Jack Nicholson and Tom Jones to fight. Even while their translator preaches peace and harmony. Maybe director Tim Burton bit off more than he could chew with this satire. Remember, it'd only been a few months since ID4 ended its box office run. Perhaps viewers didn't want to be mocked so exceedingly after dumping dollar after dollar into that film's coffers.