Alien VS Predator
A PG-13 disappointment

Now that tagline may seem like I hated this movie but that isn't completely true. Parts of this movie where really enjoyable but they spent to much time on the humans and some sort of temple excavation thing. Besides a character named Sebastian, I can't tell you a single character name because they didn't focus on names much. The humans in this were meant to be for slaughtering and in that they succeeded.

This movie starts off with the discovery of a ancient temple buried deep beneath a part of Antarctica. This team of archeologists head off to that part of the continent to find that overnight a perfect tunnel has been dug to the temple. Wonder who did that? Anyway they go into the temple and step on some kind of stone that resurrects a Alien queen. Outside all of this three Predators have landed to go on Safari. You basically know what happens next, Predators kill humans, Aliens kill humans, Aliens kill Predators, and Predators kill Aliens. It is all just one fun circle of killing each other. Something unexpected does happen but in a way it made the species who does the unexpected thing look really, really lame. Anyway at the end we get a huge fight between both parties and a sign that basically says "We Like Money, Must Make Sequel."

That is basically a plot in a nutshell for you. I did however like the special effects in this movie and the CGI was brilliantly done. Dare I say that the special effects in this were better than Spider Man 2. What it lacked in plot it made up for in some decent fight sequences and some humor. Some of the fights made both species look like complete pansy's though. Predators and Aliens both seemingly unstoppable in both there franchise's are easily defeated by each other. Also they held a lot back making this movie PG-13 and not R. Both franchise's had only R rated movies so apparently in the movie world R+R=PG-13. What? Did I miss something here? R+R=PG-13? You learn something new everyday. Also a complaint about the rating not related to the movie. PG-13 lets more kids in to this movie and having more kids in a theatre equals more incessant chattering and noise. I thought that the movie had really good surround sound until I figured out that it was some 10 yr old across the theatre complaining about not being able to see the Yu-Gi-Oh movie.

The last thing I will say about this movie is that they did a crappy job of bringing the two together. They are both alien species so it shouldn't be that hard but they made it difficult to understand even that. Why did they have to get the Aztecs/Mayans/Cambodians involved? See the movie and you will understand what that question is.

In conclusion I would like to state that this isn't a bad movie neither is it a good movie. I was looking forward to this movie and I felt a sense of longing for more as the credits started to roll. It's a good popcorn movie but it doesn't live up to the standards of either franchise's fans. I also would like to state that I hate people who talk in theatres.

Final Score
3/5