KidsVsAliens Review: A Simple Sci-Fi Story Is Saved By Excellent Visuals
Audiences love a good adventure film about kids going on fantastical and sci-fi journey. It is the type of story that made Steven Spielberg a legend to many young generations of filmmakers. Later, that premise would get the likes of Netflix's Stranger Things off to a fantastic start with viewership. Kids vs. Aliens is a good ol’ fashioned kids vs. alien story with a great deal of profanity and gore.
In this kids vs. aliens story, the aliens get up close and personal with the characters, which means the makeup and visual effects departments had to work in tandem to create believable scary creatures that are also comically accurate to what kids imagine aliens to look like. Clever camera movements and lighting mask any significant clues that these aliens are just people in prosthetics and suits, but that ingenuity makes small indie films like this stand the test of time.
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