Whenever movies present evil corporations, they are always behaving just like governments.

But still this movie rocks from start to finish i recommend it to all.

Heh. Yeah, their “portrayal”. Did you know that those on-the-street interviews at the beginning, where they were all talking about how the prawns should go away and the government should stop helping them, were *real* interviews with people asked about the *real* immigrants coming to Africa?

This wasn’t an allegory about Apartheid, or a stereotyping of South Africans. It was a barely-allegory about the *real life* racism that continues to exist in our world. It is real. Abuses like those suffered by the prawns in the refugee camp are real. Real people being treated like that as a matter of course is real. Calling it a stereotype just means you don’t want to hear the message.

“What does it mean when aliens are made to be way more sympathetic, smart and dimensional than Africans?”

Sorry that a movie which makes the oppressed more sympathetic than their oppressors offends you. You must hate Amistad or Roots. And the only ‘smart’ alien was Christopher, and he wasn’t even all that bright! The only characters fleshed out at all are him and Wicus, and sorry Wicus definitely has more dimension.

If it makes you feel better, there *were* South Africans depicted as protesting for rights for the Prawn. So, maybe the stereotyping wasn’t as simple as you thought?

To change topics to something less dim — while obviously MNU is supposed to represent the Big Private Defense Contractor Evil Corp both for the sake of realism and to bring in the plotline about wanting the alien weapons, did anyone else see the white vehicles and ‘we’re here to keep the peace by not interfering with the violent ganster/warlord’ mentality as a reference to the U.N.? Between that and the “MNU” name I think it was supposed to be a combined reference. And hell, you could take an article from a few years ago about U.N. forces in Sudan, replace U.N. with Blackwater, Sudan with Iraq, and probably wouldn’t be able to tell it wasn’t something from today’s paper.

AR at #9 you obviously haven’t seen the movie, otherwise your sick little mind dreaming of hot black on white rapes would probably be very pleased as to how the black population is portrayed.

The aliens are not an allegory for apartheid, that would be too easy. They are an allegory for any bottom of the barrel untouchable shit end of the stick population. Everyone preys on you.

The 1st half is clever and borders on greatness, but devolves into an ultra-violent Hollywood action fest in the second half.

A good but not great movie.

Hmmm…. sounds more like the plight of the oppressed White population. Still stuck in the 60s, Eileen? Apartheid is over. Now the order of the day in South Africa is rape, murder, and terrorizing White farmers. Much better, isn’t it.

AND NOT. Maybe this piece of shit is good, for a movie. To me a “good movie” is like a smart retard, there’s no such animal.

Like, why bother with the faux documentary interviews to fill in the ridiculous backstory? Just go straight up Star Wars, fire up the John Williams like ba ba ba ba bum! ba ba ba ba, ba ba baaaaaa, ba ba ba baa, roll the scrolling text, “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.. the ghetto craw dad alienz heard about cars for clunkers and came to trade in their flying saucer but they broke down above Joburg for twenty years! FUCK! Then it was all boyz in the hood.. until they were saved by Spider man, well, actually not saved but Spydy jumped into a transformer and teamed up with the good craw dad alien who escaped and will get the reinforcements to stop the V for Vendetta alien medical research (if the money is there to justify a sequel, that is).”

Bottom line, be smart, don’t make the mistakes I made. Wait for the DVD or get the torrent if you know how to do that stuff.

What do you do when they make slow movies for smart people! Thats even worse!!!