District 9

Release year: 2009

In 1982, a massive star ship bearing a bedraggled alien population, nicknamed "The Prawns," appeared over Johannesburg, South Africa. Twenty-eight years later, the initial welcome by the human population has faded. The refugee camp where the aliens were located has deteriorated into a militarized ghetto called District 9, where they are confined and exploited in squalor. In 2010, the munitions corporation, Multi-National United, is contracted to forcibly evict the population with operative Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley) in charge. In this operation, Wikus is exposed to a strange alien chemical and must rely on the help of his only two new 'Prawn' friends.

Another Hollywood alien and extraterrestrial stuff with a difference. Following are differences and similarities.

Differences from prior alien movies are:

1. Aliens are good, neither friendly nor harmful.

2. Most of them are not very intelligent and genius, infact they appear quite stupid

3. Government is not worried about letting them stay and setting up slum area kind of colony for them.

4. They are not projected very powerful and destructive even though they have mass destruction weapons.

5. They have no charm in earth, neither winning it nor conducting any experiment, humans are shown more intelligent for the first time.

6. Local mafia has great connection with aliens and Govt. have no issues with it.

7. City of Johannesburg, South Africa is chosen this time unlike some US big city.

8. Govt. is not really worried about typical extraordinary health concerns which are generally shown in typical alien movies and govt. is not worries about the contaminations and non predictable problems that can cause weird diseases that can infect common people.

9. This not an intended arrival of aliens and this is no attack.

10. Aliens are harmless.

11. Aliens are treated as poor refugees and humans are more powerful.

12. Its somehow easy to communicate with aliens and they understand a lot but yet behave stupid like monkeys. You can show them documents and talk about licences and stuff like that.

13. They eventually like a food available in the market so survival is not an issue.

14. They kind of have emotions and they probably understand the meaning of promises.

Similarities:

1. They look weird yet they have two legs, two hands and head like human, they mostly look like mummies of Hollywood movie Mummy.

2. They have advances computer technologies.

3. They didn't have much problem in understanding human computers.

4. Some DNA related crap happens over an human.

5. Hidden experiments are happening over these creatures.

6. Their regeneration process is weird.

So essence is this another alien movie with some differences which can change perception of aliens, amongst kids and they may consider them friendly. Usual technology, fiction and action which might be liked by kids. I think its a good movie for kids probably below age 14. It has good enough reasons to hold an IMDB within 250 ranking, probably kids and some kiddish grown ups(like me) liked it.

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District 9