Usually, bigger doesn’t spell better, but here the sheer size of the alien mothership – it’s 3,000 miles across – and the attendant effects are genuinely awesome. First attack? Well, it won’t spoil anything to suggest that the world is once again under threat (it’s on the poster) and this time the enemy ships are even larger. The president of the US is now a woman (Sela Ward), not Morgan Freeman, and an international cast has been rallied to reflect the unification of the planet which followed after the first attack. The sequel may not be as fun as the original, but it’s got humour to spare and is leaner, frequently sphincter-flinching, visually gobsmacking and packed with pre-iconic dialogue. Here, the presidential palace witnesses the total demolition of the US capital but, in a sly in-joke, is itself spared. He’s also destroyed the White House three times, in Independence Day, 2012 and White House Down. It is he who delighted in bringing us various apocalyptic scenarios with Independence Day, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow and 2012, along with his relatively big-budget student film The Noah's Ark Principle, released theatrically in 1984. The good news is that Roland Emmerich – the original director – is back at the helm and nobody does global extermination like Roland Emmerich. Twenty years after Will Smith and assorted aviation squadrons battled the mother of all alien races – and won – the sequel arrives in time for July the 4th, 2016. After a slew of disappointing superhero epics, the CGI Factory returns to what it does best: the wholesale destruction of the planet.
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