| Overall: | C- |
|---|---|
| Violence: | C- |
| Sexual Content: | C |
| Language: | D+ |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | C |
| Run Time: | 93 |
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| Video Release: | 22 Mar 2011 |
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After watching a movie with your children or students, we encourage parents and teachers to look for education opportunities to teach with movies. Here are a few discussion topics that can help with lesson plans or teaching in the home.
Why is it important for a director to create characters that the audience cares about? Why do viewers need to become emotionally involved in a story?
Is there ever a sense of real fight when one opponent is significantly larger or more powerful than the other? Does this script offer any hope that the humans will succeed in overcoming the aliens?

Kerry Bennett is interested in media from both a journalist and parent perspective. Along with authoring articles for several family-oriented publications, she has written for Parent Previews for nearly 10 years. She serves as Vice President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness. She and her husband Garry have four sons.