sequel to independence day resurgence awesome

There would be also cheesy love stories, dopey comic relief, big new monsters and every location would look like the blueprint of a very cool but expensive play set. One imagines that such a series might be a massive rip-off of Robotech, in which the leftover alien technology would be adapted by the human race to build really cool anti-alien weaponry, so that a few leftover characters from the original could help a team of hip new youngsters fight off the second wave of extraterrestrial attackers. But it’s all too much too fast, and the cumulative effect is like watching a two-hour trailer – more dizzying than thrilling.Against all odds, the 1996 mega-blockbuster Independence Day never spawned a spin-off animated series.

Emmerich’s glee is infectious as he trashes Big Ben but leaves the rebuilt White House standing, and there are few things on earth cooler than Jeff Goldblum exasperatedly explaining how doomed humanity is, again. Which isn’t to say ‘Resurgence’ can’t be a lot of fun in short bursts. So it’s goodbye to proper character development and the slow-build tension that made the first film such a thrill, and hello to exposition delivered at double speed and a cop-out ending that makes absolutely no sense. ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ is crammed with pornographic destruction and madcap action, not to mention almost all the characters from the first movie (minus Will Smith) plus a heap of new ones – and it’s only two hours long. Weirdly, the only thing not extra-huge is the running time – and that’s where the problems arise. And instead of a ranting, dire-warning Jeff Goldblum.

And instead of an Earth resistance force led by plucky jet pilots, humans have taken the alien technology and developed their own super-speed X-wing style dogfighters. So instead of the city-sized ships that terrorised Earth in the first movie, there is one massive mothership more than 3,000 miles across, spanning the entire Atlantic ocean. So hard that he ends up painted into a corner, with no recourse but to throw everything at the screen and hope that some of it sticks. Never a man to shy away from a world-ending special effect – remember that tidal wave cresting Everest in ‘2012’? – director Roland Emmerich is trying really hard to outdo himself here. The blockbuster arms race officially goes into nuclear meltdown with this insanely OTT sequel to the hugely enjoyable, already-ludicrous-enough 1996 alien invasion smash.

Sequel to independence day resurgence awesome