'Philosophical' meets 'camp' in sci-fi remake
(NEWSER) - The Day the Earth Stood Still brings “stone-faced silliness” to what’s intended to be a “philosophical discussion” of humankind’s foibles, writes Joe Neumaier in the New York Daily News. The human-extinction sci-fi remake's “major action sequences are never exciting,” and its attempt to make a point “results in something just as clunky as a mega-robot with laser-beam eyes,” Neumaier writes. More»