This movie is essentially a Tim Burton's Battlefield earth. An extremely expensive early 2000s epic movie involving speciesism and the conflict between human and the other species struggle with their differences and understanding of each others intelligence and the struggle of religiousness/prophecy and desert/dune type low-tech.
If you know this while watching the film, you will understand what you are seeing and why . The movie has all of the early 2000s. Late 90s tropes and stereotypes that are overexaggerated and over-bearing to many viewers. The production and acting is far better as you can tell they have spent so much on the make-up department. But it cannot hide that this movie barely takes itself seriously even though it tries to represent itself as an epic with some kind of philosophical or moral undertones. It is fairly fun for what it is and it is a decent watch, but it is nothing to write home about and should be seen as just that; a watchable movie.
If you know this while watching the film, you will understand what you are seeing and why . The movie has all of the early 2000s. Late 90s tropes and stereotypes that are overexaggerated and over-bearing to many viewers. The production and acting is far better as you can tell they have spent so much on the make-up department. But it cannot hide that this movie barely takes itself seriously even though it tries to represent itself as an epic with some kind of philosophical or moral undertones. It is fairly fun for what it is and it is a decent watch, but it is nothing to write home about and should be seen as just that; a watchable movie.