Plum Crazy

The ending was preposterously simplistic. Oh look, the entire family survived! Even after the son was caught on the forefront of a massive alien attack, somehow he managed to not only survive but find his way up to his grandparents' house in Boston. Before his father and sister get there. They never explained how that happened. It just did.

The only good old human ingenuity portrayed in this film was in survival. I guess that's fine, but I would have preferred a little more of "the humans figure out a way to kill aliens" (aside from a couple of grenades up the gullet, which is not a particularly good long-term plan). In the end, the aliens just die. If any character in the movie actually figures out what killed them, we sure don't know about it. The narrator tells the audience that it was the bacteria that done them in, but it all seems quite deus ex machina-like. I understand in the original that it is the bacteria, but the scientists figure that out after it starts occurring and use it to their advantage. Not so here.

However, this movie does go to show something I've always believed. Despite the fact that the aliens attack Tokyo and the Ukraine pretty much simultaneously, they attack New York before Boston. I assume this is the case, because people in Boston have power and seem to have actually survived without having to run. Which, I mean, of course. Even the aliens don't care that much about Boston. ;^)

Although as I write that sentence, one thing occurs to me. This would mean that the Yankees are destroyed, but the Red Sox survive. Oh no! It is a horror film after all!