Independence Day

7.2/10 stinky bananas

Solid movie.

Independence Day is definitely a mixed bag. You get a bunch of poopy doopy characters (e.g., Harry Connick Jr.'s character, raspy voice guy, the First Lady, long haired kid and his family) and you get a bunch of great stuff (e.g., Will Smith punching an alien, Area 51/alien autopsy scene, the President's speech, the "hello boys, I'm baaaacck" guy). Ideally, a movie wouldn't have any poopy doopy characters, but the benefit of an apocalypse-style movie is that you can have the poopy doopy characters get reduced to molecules at any point, and that's exactly what happened. At least there is some element of satisfaction when you see a poopy doopy character that you hate get obliterated.

Will Smith does a lot of the heavy lifting. He is by far the best part of the movie. Will and Jeff Goldblum have really good chemistry.

The special effects look like diarrhea.

The President was secretly happy his wife had died.

That's it. See ya.