Every year the world: time for the celebration comes the remake of the sci-fi classic "The day the Earth stood still" in the cinema. Nothing shortens the wait to meet Santa Claus so much as a bit of apocalypse for Advent, as some might think, and is looking forward to Doomsday Sausenberger between seasonal mandatory romantic comedies and family films.
Unfortunately, the hoped-Bescherung from: Scott Derricksons reinterpretation is not juicy, let alone provokantes spectacle, but rather the cinematic equivalent of a boring speculaas: Dust dry, free of flavor, unloving garnished with special effects and pre-served by the perplexed stars Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly.
That is more than embarrassing, given the superior original: "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (1951) by Robert Wise, together with the Howard Hawks-production "The Thing From Another Planet" (1951) and Don Siegel "Invasion of the Body Snatchers "(1956), something like the trinity of U.S. Cinemas paranoia of the fifties dar. midst of the Cold War found this fantastic parables compelling images for the anxieties of its audience and defined as the science fiction genre again.
No sense for the qualities of the predecessor
Wise 'film conveyed his pacifist message from another star in the shadow of the nuclear arms race, which today is once again present seems far more than fifteen years ago. Starting points for a contemporary update thus there would be enough.
VIDEOS ON FILM Photo: 20th Century FoxVideo: 20th Century FoxDer day the Earth stood still and movie trailers, movie excerpts extracts: "The answer would only scare" film excerpt: "There is nothing you can do" film excerpt: " They do not hurt him "Indeed, the remake, to name several individual role details, but makes itself in key scenes only unnecessary, and later fatal changes and basically shows no sense of the essential qualities of the predecessor.
The kick remains familiar: a vast, penetrate unidentifizierbares object from space in the American airspace which makes for a veritable state of emergency and eventually landed softly in New York's Central Park
What looks like an oversized Christmas Ball is a spaceship, which under the eyes of world public entsteigt extraterrestrial beings. Even before the initial contact, the visitors but from a nervous soldiers wounded, whereupon a gigantic robot emerges, the present military and scientists at bay holds.
The aliens want with the United Nations talk
The wounded alien is salvaged and at an army base deals where it from its gray skin and skin peels adrette the form of Keanu Reeves accepts. As Klaatu is the star man of treating biologist Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly), and calls to the United Nations to be able to speak. The present Defense Minister (Kathy Bates) has rejected its application from, whereupon Klaatu using his skills from the custody escapes.
CINEMA PLANERDPAIhr Cinema: What is when and where - the SPIEGEL ONLINE planner for the whole of Germany ... Helen Benson and her minor adoptive son Jacob (Jaden Smith) to be his accomplices and then learn from Klaatus serious mission: As a message of galactic Nations of humanity should he make an ultimatum? either they quit their destructive activity, or they will with violence worthy of protection from the planet Earth.
Diplomacy appears to have failed and that ET nothing more than genocide thinks global, it becomes clear as more and more sightings of crystal balls and Klaatus robot colleague? as 1951 to the beautiful name Gort hear? with the destruction of New Jersey begins. Now it is up to Helen, the pessimistic Weltraumemissär still umzustimmen and humanity a second chance to give.
Popeligstes Armageddon in living memory
That all sounds exciting unequal than it actually presented on the screen. From the large glass marbles God in the park, on the computer bustle of the arbitrary action scenes up to the fact that Keanu Reeves' after "Matrix" and "Constantine" once again act as a messianic hotel on gutsitzenden suit and his noble pallor must demonstrate, this is probably the popeligste Armageddon since time immemorial.
THE DAY THE EARTH TO STANDSTILL (USA 2008) Original title: The Day the Earth Stood Still directed by Scott DerricksonDrehbuch: David ScarpaDarsteller: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy BatesProduktion: Twentieth Century-Fox Film CorporationVerleih: FoxLaufzeit: 103 minutes start: 11 December 2008offizielle WebsiteDa it fits in general, excellent Kuddelmuddel again that the supposedly smart advocate of humanity chosen by John Cleese played. His super scientists, somewhere between Einstein and Professor Hastily from Sesame Street located, brings Klaatu with a few calendar saying so to speculate that it not only in the minds of this world, but also on the intelligence of the aliens must be doubted.
Even the last infallible Jennifer Connelly, whether the grandeur of its actually nothing wrong can make the skin right here beside times and limited their theatrical performance to the zaudernden radical restructuring Klaatu waidwunde glances zuzuwerfen.
Mahnende differs according to the appeal of the original, which is nothing less than world peace called for a diffuse Geschwurbel Zen and the friendly letter of intent, in the future just a bit nicer to animals, plants and others to be. Every official German plea for energy saving lamps has more drive and flair to show this as a truly quiet standing disaster movie in the intergalactic Heal, Heal, Blessing lost.
What remains is a disappointment cosmic scale and the realization that the only charismatic celestial visitors this month will probably Santa Claus.
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