The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) by the DVD Man

This review only deserves small print. I'm giving it a Lame, Unwatchable and a Horrible tag, just in case you don't get it. DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES - A friend said was playing on a plane trip she took - if that happens to you, get a blindfold, just in case.

Why anybody thought they should remake a classic movie like The Day the Earth Stood Still and they cast Keanu Reeves as Klaatu is beyond apprehension.

It did have it's humorous parts, I must admit, although I don't think the filmmaker was going for laughs.

1. Kidnap an 80 foot robot with an evil roving eye and put him inside a tube? Really?
2. Have an observation booth looking right into the evil eye and then have the supercilious assistant SecDef (played by scenery chewing Kathy Bates) walk around 10 feet from him protected by glass? Really? I don't think it's a good idea.
3. Ooops, weird metal scorpions are eating through the diamond drill and then a bigger OOPS, they are eating through the glass.
4. Oh darn, everyone is trapped and kablooey!
5. But wait! outside the mountian and the giant gates, is a huge army of tanks to defend us against the indesctructable giant robot! What a great idea. Heck of a job, Kathy Bates or should I say Batesie?
6. Oops again - the robot turns into a swarm of locusts that eat and disolve everything in their path. Gee Whiz, tanks don't do much.

Then Klaatu doesn't ever deliver his message to more than Jennifer Connelly, who's very lovely, but hardly going to make a difference and get the Earth to stop messing things up. And her son is the most annoying character I've ever seen - Gort should have stomped him in the first act!

The whole thing is a mess and I wish I had never watching this crummy movie. Patoee!