Now I love SciFi but this was something I would expect to be playing on the SciFi Channel right after Riddles of the Sphinx.
If you plan on seeing this movie read no further because I'm going to give away everything.
The movie starts out with Keanu Reeves on a mountain in a tent back in 1928. He sees a bright light and goes to check it out. He finds a glowing orb and touches it.
Now in present time we see Jennifer Connelly teaching a Planetary Galactic Astrophysics Astronomy class where the homework assignment was to find out if Mesopotamian Blazar Cosmo Gases could exist on Uranus.
Now we know her character is extremely smart and knows stuff about space and aliens.
She goes home to make her son some rice with vegetables when she gets a phone call from a Government Agency specializing in alien orbs, "In a minute people will be at your door to take you away." "Why?" she asks. "Everything will be explained en route."
En Route: "So what's going on?", she asks again. "I don't know." the government guy says.
Then she ends up with a bunch of other really smart scientist people who are flown to a special place to finally find out what is happening. "There is a large unknown object with a speed of 3x107m/s flying to the Earth.", the really smart scientist guy tells them. "Where is it going to hit?" one scientist asks. The scientist replies, "Manhattan."
The object turns out to be a large spherical spaceship, which slows down and lands gently in Central Park. Everybody runs to Central Park. As they stand and stare at the orb a being that looks like a blob of Jell-O emerges from the sphere with a large bodybuilder robot. The army immediately shoots the Jell-O being because humans hate Jell-O. This makes the robot angry and he sends out a high pitched frequency giving everybody ear pain.
Jennifer Connelly immediately takes the Jell-O being to the top secret medical facility where a doctor removes the bullet and finds out that the Jell-O was just an outer protective shell acting as a placenta. The alien begins to take on the appearance of Keanu Reeves from the opening scene. He is then moved to another room where Kathy Bates, the spokes woman for the President shows up to ask him why he's here. We find out his name is Klaatu and he tells her that people don't take care of the planet and he and his alien friends need to cleanse the planet. She tells him that people can change (Which becomes the theme of the movie). I think Obama helped write the script because "Change" is mentioned every 10 minutes from now until the end of the movie.
So... they decide to hook him up to a polygraph to see if his name really is Klaatu, if he knows anything about orbs and if he knows the term "Seated Position". He kills the polygraph guy and puts on his suit and escapes the facility. He then walks to the airport where he uses his electro magnetic powers to steal a tuna sandwich. The tuna makes him sick so he goes to the bathroom and passes out.
Back to Jennifer's character who gets a phone call that Klaatu is at the police station getting over some bad tuna and she should come take him home. She picks him up from the station and asks him where he would like to go.
No joke, they drive to McDonald's where he meets with one of his alien friends who's been living on earth for 70 years disguised as James Hong. Klaatu orders the McRib combo and Hong gets a few Snack Wraps and a McFlurry. Then Klaatu asks Hong what he thinks of earth. Hong tells him that humans are evil and they like destroying things, but he likes living on earth because we have a McDonald's. After hearing how evil mankind is he decides that cleansing the earth is the best thing to do. Before leaving Klaatu gets another McRib to go.
Now Jennifer takes Klaatu to the forest so he can talk to a mini orb hiding in a pond.
Why are there mini orbs? We come to find out that the mini orbs are all over the planet collecting squids and scorpions as souvenirs before cleansing the planet of all life.
Meanwhile the giant robot body builder transforms into little microscopic metallic bugs that eat anything in sight. They eat a stadium, a truck and half of Manhattan.
Klaatu sees Jennifer crying and hugging her son while the metallic bugs eat everything around them. Klaatu then realizes from her tender embrace and tears that people can change. They quickly drive to Central Park to tell the orb that people can change. The orb must've been happy that people can change because he sucks up Klaatu, the bugs, the squids and the scorpions and flies away.
Before leaving they made one last stop at the McDonald's drive-thru and picked up some McRib Sandwiches to go.
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