leave it to Hollywood to totally screw-up a great opportunity to remake a 50's classic with updated technology. So many pieces of garbage in this movie: A weird Sphere for a ship, the punk Jaden Smith for the child (I'm guessing they just said be your punk self in the part), Climate change as the core theme, Gort made out of billions of robotic micro-bugs (Gort could have been a rock star in this movie, but he was shart lived), the bizarre syncopated dance between the professor Barnhardt and Klaatu at the blackboard, the terrible directing on Kathy Bates making her beyond stiff and lifeless, and on.
The classic of the 50's was one of my favorite films; to see it disrespected and ruined was heart breaking.
It's watchable, but terribly disappointing to anyone that loved the original.