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Independence Day

Quick, set the table! Company’s coming! Earth eagerly anticipates making contact with an alien race when scores of extraterrestrial spaceships hover over world capitals. Do they come in peace? Not this time. Mass destruction ensues, and the pockets of ragtag survivors – a combinationof fighters, computer geeks and everyday Joes – must ban together to save humanity. Oh, and it happens around the Fourth of July. Enjoy the fireworks!

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There is a brief scene at a strip club, some scary and violent images, and about 70 profanities that are cut from Independence Day. The widespread mayhem – buildings exploding, the implied deaths of millions of people – is another matter, and sort of the point of the movie. Younger viewers may be traumatized by the extended scenes of the inevitable apocalypse, but more adventurous audience members will find glee in mankind’s pluckiness and will to survive. Probably best for teens and above.

If Independence Day is the end of the world as we know it, will it make us feel fine?...

When I originally say ID4 (as it was inexplicably called) in the theater, the scenes of cataclysm got an ovation from the packed house, not because it was delightful to see the razing of Washington, but because of director Roland Emmerich’s expertise at showing obliteration. The script is somewhat dumb, and there are great leaps of logic, but it’s a small price to pay for freedom.

Marty Nabhan, ClearPlay Patriot Gamer

Rated PG-13 for sci-fi destruction and violence; 145 Mins; Directed by Roland Emmerich