Animated Movie Where Humans Invade Alien Planet
Battle for Terra is a bewitchingly animated story about an invasion from outer space, by aliens who threaten to destroy all life on the planet so they can claim it as their own. I know what you're thinking. Here's the surprise: The aliens are the human race. The inhabitants of Terra look like cute tadpoles, combined with features of mermaids and seahorses.
The planet Terra (so named by the Terrans) is one of the stars of the film. A world where nearly everything seems to be organic, it has a unique scale. Although a Terran is of considerable size, about as large as a human child of 6 or 7, the vegetation grows on a much larger scale, so that a hollow reed can be used for high-rise living. The civilization includes certain mechanical features (helicopter chairs, ultra-light aircraft), but seems very much a part of nature.
The thinking that went into this other world is typical of classic science fiction, both in its physical details and its sociological ones. The atmosphere is apparently dense enough that the Terrans can hover with a minimal effort by their tadpole tails. It also can support huge, friendly sky leviathans, who float among the clouds like peaceful whales. The planet is ruled by a well-meaning thought-control autocracy, which enforces strict conformity and discourages independent thought.
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When a vast human vessel appears in the sky, the Terrans assume it is God. The bright, rebellious Mala (the voice of Evan Rachel Wood) thinks otherwise. When her light aircraft is pursued by a human fighter plane, she lures it into a crash, then rescues its pilot, Jim Stanton (Luke Wilson). Helped by Jim's chirpy robot companion Giddy (David Cross), she saves his life and builds a dome within which he can breathe oxygen.
Oxygen is the problem. The humans, exhausted after a generations-long voyage through the cosmos, intend to replace Terra's atmosphere with oxygen, this providing a new Earth for themselves, but, alas, killing all life forms on Terra. This gaiacide is directed by the militarist General Hemmer (Brian Cox), who brushes away Jim's arguments that the two races can peacefully co-exist.
All leads to war, which was a disappointment to me, because a film that offers invention and originality reduces itself essentially to just another aerial battle, with however some nice touches. Are kids thought to require combat at the end? Could they perhaps be trusted to accept a character-based resolution?
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The movie contains a subtle level of sociopolitical commentary, involving the blind faith encouraged by the leaders on both sides, the questioning of orthodoxy by Mala and her friend Senn (Justin Long), and the nuke-the-enemy strategy of Hemmer. The assumption that the earthlings are gods shows the pitfalls of imposing a supernatural solution to a natural problem.
The animation is nicely stylized and the color palette well-chosen, although the humans are so square-jawed, they make Dick Tracy look like Andy Gump. The voice performances are persuasive. The obvious drawback is that the film is in 3-D. If you can find a theater showing it in 2-D, seek it out. The 3-D adds nothing and diminishes the light intensity, as if imposing a slightly cloudy window between the viewer and a brightly colored wonderland. Take off the glasses to see how much you're losing.
Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.There is nothing quite so cool as an alien invasion movie, right? Earth is rocked by an unexpected attack and suddenly the world’s warring powers must unite in common self-defense. It is a great theme and usually inspires positive feelings around the globe. But once in a while people look up at the stars and wonder, “What if
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Are the invaders? What happens then?” You’ll be glad to know there are indeed science fiction movies where humans are the invading aliens.
If you have been struggling to find movies that explore this theme, look no further. We have rounded up ten of them for you, and depending on your age the chances are very good that some of these names will be new to you. All of these films are “classics” or blockbusters or both. But they are not necessarily repetitive. In fact, each movie looks at the idea of humans being the invaders from space in very different ways.
And instead of ranking these movies in some arbitrary hierarchy of quality we have decided to list them alphabetically. If you can you should view them all, for each tells an interesting story in its own way. Each brings its own twists and irony to the idea of what happens when humanity is the invader.
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Starring Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana, James Cameron’s 2009 blockbuster “Avatar” borrowed from almost every trope in the militaristic science fiction book. A dying Earth has managed to find another planet (a moon orbiting a Jupiter-sized world in another star system) where life exists, but a rare element named Unobtanium is (for Earth) this world’s greatest resource. A powerful corporation has established a base on Pandora and sent a private army there to protect the miners from the native inhabitants of the world, the Na’vi.
“Avatar” leaps past the First Contact phase to explore the “Columbus versus the Natives” scenario, where the technologically advanced humans decide to take what they want regardless of the needs or desires of the indigenous inhabitants. One man, disabled ex-marine Jake Sully, reluctantly accepts the mission his dead twin brother was to fulfill: to infiltrate the Na’vi society in the body of a biological avatar and help scientists learn how to find a common ground with them. Along the way, Jake experiences a journey of personal growth and moral elevation.
“Avatar” is without question the most popular of the movies where humans are the invading aliens because it’s story is detailed and involves rich characters on both sides of the issue. We get to know the Na’vi on a personal level at the same time we follow the invading humans’ own intraspecies drama.
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This highly acclaimed animated movie from 2007 features the voice talents of Brian Cox, Rosanna Arquette, Beverly D’Angelo, Chris Evans, and many other fine actors. Director Aristomenis Tsirbas may not be a household name but his film career includes many well-known projects such as visual effects for “Hellboy”, “Star Trek: Enterprise”, “My Favorite Martian”, and “Titanic”. “Battle for Terra” was his first (and so far only) major film as full director.
The story is told from the viewpoint of the diminutive inhabitants of a world called “Terra” (but it is not the Earth). They are peaceful and live in harmony with each other and their environment, guided by elders who are wise and benevolent. But the last humans from Earth reach the planet looking for a new home (their ancestors destroyed Earth, Mars, and Venus in a terrible war), and out of desperation attempt to take over the planet. The Terrans are not oxygen breathers, and their atmosphere has little to no oxygen, so the humans must terraform the world and destroy its native inhabitants.
Unbeknownst to the humans, however, the diminutive Terrans also have a dark past and their elders reluctantly resurrect a powerful fleet of technologically advanced warships to defend the home world against the invaders.
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Althogh it’s a computer-generated animation movie, “Battle for Terra” does a great job of portraying humans as invading aliens. The story begins among the seemingly innocent Terrans and gives the audience time to build sympathy for them as characters and as a species. The surprise revelation about their past toward the end of the movie makes them seem more like us, and that creates an even stronger emotional resonance with the audience.
Humanity is fighting for survival in 2013’s “Ender’s Game”, which stars Harrison Ford and Asa Butterfield. Based on a book by Orson Scott Card, “Ender’s Game” confronts the possibility that humanity may become so focused on its resolve to destroy another species that it perverts its own children into soldiers. What is strikingly realistic about this story is that child-soldiers exist today in greater numbers than have been known throughout most of recorded history. Terrorist groups in Africa and the Middle East force children to fight in their wars, depriving them of hope and peaceful purpose.
Ender, a prodigy at advanced strategy, is promoted from within the ranks of elite military cadets after he displays an intensity of purpose far surpassing his peers. He is sent to the most advanced training academy Earth’s defense forces maintain, where he prepares for a final assault on an alien species that attacked Earth only a few decades before. But Ender becomes troubled as the mission’s final day approaches, and he discovers only too late that humanity may be the villains, not the good guys.
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This movie is not without its critics. Like many movies adapted from popular, influential books, “Ender’s Game” took some short cuts. You have to be really quick to see the occasional homages to details that were more fully explained in the book.
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