I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Wonderful Movie

A Masterpiece!

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

When a rebroadcast of the infamous Orson Welles telling of the classic 'War of the Worlds' by H.G. Welles hits the radio airwaves an alien race invades earth. Aimed squarely at kids, so I would recommend if you do find this movie and have kids in say the 8-11 range they might enjoy it. For adults though, there isn't much to take out of this silly sci-fi yarn. Starring Adriana Richards who befriends the alien race and old veteran Royal Dano who plays the half-crazed, down on his luck farmer whose barn becomes the landing spot of the aliens.

I saw this as a kid and remembered it being pretty cool, so now I am trying to sit though it again, and it is ruining my good memories. Ridiculous things that don't make any sense happening for no reason isn't funny, it's just stupid, but this movie would have you believe otherwise. For example, at the start of the film we established that the enforcer drones have a weapon that can fry a martian to a crisp in an instant, yet when it uses it's gun on the pilot character, he isn't fried to a crisp, he is just knocked over (what?!) and somehow manages to crush flat a can of green paint (paint cans are very hard to crush by the way) and somehow this fools the drone. WHAT?! Also, somehow this advanced alien race with the ability to wage war with fleet battles in space doesn't have the basic ability to know the difference between an authentic communication, and broadcasted entertainment from a planet completely irrelevant to their war. WHAT?! Everyone knows that during a war, authentic communication is paramount. Having their ship get damaged and being forced to crash land would have been a much better reason for them to be on earth. That's OK though, because they do crash when they land right into a barn. Why you ask? Because the pilot was wearing 3D glasses. WHAAAT?!?! They know a country road when they see one, yet they are surprised when a pickup hits their captain, calling it a "secret weapon." Then they keep standing in the road. WHAT?!?! The jerk in the truck drives off without paying for the gas, and guy at the gas station doesn't call the new sheriff. Instead he just complains to himself about being pushed around. WHAAAAAAAAAT?! The concept of someone being able to openly steal gas and get away with it with NO RESISTANCE is STUPID! SOOO STUUUPID! Then the martians begin their attack, but the guy with the big backpack gun can't shoot someone until they take his threat seriously. If he wanted them to take him seriously, then why didn't he just SHOOT SOMEONE?!?! I can't even make it through the rest of the film. Now, I know some would argue that the stupidity of the movie is what is supposed to be funny, but I think a good comedy is one that makes sense, and still manages to be funny. This movie is neither bad in a good sort of way or funny in a stupid sort of way. It's just stupid.

Ever see a movie you loved watching as a kid and watch it again about ten years later and think why the heck you watched it to begin with? Their are so many of those movies out their like that for me but the movie that comes to mind the most is a movie called Spaced Invaders.Spaced Invaders is a somewhat children's movie rated PG from the early 90's about pot smoking aliens (ok maybe the aliens weren't smoking anything but the producer who financed this movie must have been) because the aliens acted like 80's California surfers then actual menacing scary creatures trying to take over earth.The aliens crash land on earth Halloween night and are originally supposed to take over the world instead they get mistaken for children in costumes and start joining in on all the Halloween mischief while still trying to find pieces to fix their ship to leave.Very much a cheesy midnight type movie but still loved all the wackyness and had to rent this all the time when I was a kid and I rented it every chance I could. The best part about being a kid is never noticing how much a movie is crummy and a lot that you watched were. So just for nostalgic factor ill give this movie three blond surfer dudes out of five. See this one only if you enjoy 80's valley girl aliens stuck in an early 90's Halloween.

Stupid aliens over-hear a rebroadcast of Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" reading and decide they want to get in on the action of attacking Earth. Naturally the crew is not near as intelligent as they think and end up crashing their shuttle and being mistaken as trick-or-treaters on Halloween night by a town of inbred hay-seeds. Real eye-roller material here as cheap special effects and would-be lovable extra-terrestrials were to bring people into the theater in droves. Instead everyone ignored this dud and let the film quietly crash into cinematic obscurity. Turkey (0 stars out of 5).