Feb 19 2009'Battle for Terra' Teaches Kids Humans Are Jerks

Snorkels in 3-D

I thought Wall-E was this generation's tale of caution.

Wow...humans are assholes.

And is it Chris Evans' goal to be in EVERYTHING right now?

I honestly don't understand why there aren't more of the opposite types of messages. Somehow, the guilt and inferiority complex that the Church dumps on people got set aside, and replaced with something 10x worse, the guilt and inferiority complex that humanism dumps on people.

"Hey don't kill ALL the bad guys, leave a few alive so we can have another war later"
"Everyone's opinion matters lol"
"Everything the masses timidly agree to MUST be true!"
"Everything that makes you feel bad MUST be evil!"

The bat, I remember. I don't recall a fleet of ferries shuttling people across the Amazon, though.

Luke Wilson AND James Gardner?!?!?! Well, I thought this looked atrocious, but hey now, lets get this 3d party started - the Quaid is icing on the cake. Also - I'm pretty sure if Brian Cox implores us to do ANYTHING, its usually a VERY BAD IDEA. Then again, if Justin Long and Chris Evans are the alien voices of reason, let them HAVE IT.

Oops!

if these beings are peaceful wouldnt they just bend over and take it. why do they have weapons how is there even a battle. them aliens are full of shit!!
do you think X-TERRA is the official of the planet TERRA. or is TERRA the latest rapper to top the charts! HOLA!

anyone else find it funny that one guy yelled "ITS A TRAP"

The only way this movie would be good would be if there was a huge amount of build up and then the humans just waste the shit out of their inferior technology without any trouble or remorse and then it flashes forward to a happy human colony 1000 years in the future.

Already mentioned, but GRATUITOUS Star Wars reference: "It's a trap!"

this trailer brings up so many questions...

1. Why would our beloved Brian Cox do this film?
2. Does Planet Terra have anything to do with Planet Terror? Think about it....
3. Are Native Americans producing this film? That would make sense...
4. If the Terronians.... er, Terrons... Terriganders? If the aliens speak English, why don't we just ask for their help? It'd be oh-so-easy.
5. Already mentioned, but... yeah, what's with the perfect society having guns?
6. Why do the humans just insist on killing everyone? It doesn't make sense! Where's the motivation? The planet has to be big enough for both societies to thrive. Did you see all that available land?
7. Don't you think beings that can hover would have a better chance at winning a ground battle?
8. If earth is destroyed, why are they still googling at that map? Get over it... it's gone dude...
9. Really? Terra is across the universe? Across the entire universe? You mean the one that as far as we know is infinite? And humans survived that trek? Really?
10. Is this movie really worth watching if we know the humans have impenetrable defenses? The aliens really can't win if they do. I guess the humans are the aliens though... so I don't really know what to call them
11. I feel like if they put this battle to a vote, which I think as the last surviving humans they would have to, they would ultimately choose to not follow General Crazy's plan. Why don't they just vote?

Hey hey hey, looks like we're all rushing to judgment - it's possible that all the pussies in the movie are actually going to double cross the natives and deliver Terra into human hands with fewer casualties!

Wouldn't that make a sweet ending!?!

But wait... Terra is another name for Earth! They're the same place! What is this, an M. Night. Shamylan movie? What a TWIST!
Seriously though, this looks like it might be good. I might see it. The Terra thing bothers me though... oh well.

"Why are they doing this to us?!"

Because we can, we are Americans! I mean obviously, all the survivors of earth were American's that speak english.

Genocide is fun if it means the survival of the human race.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding Pekod, but is his complaint that if we just had a bit more self-esteem we could happily engage in genocide?
Butchering every last one the enemy is the ethos they're pursuing in Rwanda. If humanism is discouraging that, I have a little bit of difficulty in seeing that as regrettable.

wellll..... really, if it came down to this, i would gladly be part of the extermination of this entire race of terronians or whatever, who gives a shit, we all have lessons about caring for eachother....... nothing about gay looking aliens i say they deserve to get destroyed.

I'm going to have to agree with the humans. If it's us or them then fk them.

For the love of god, some one get the script writers a scientist.

"Only two months left of air" my ass. All that tech and they can't recycle the o2 they have? Never mind finding chunks of frozen ice in asteroid belts, outer planets of solar systems, and comets? Only one planet in the whole universe has air? Humans can travel the breadth of the universe, but cannot terraform a new planet for them selves?

Seriously, WTF!

Small Pox isn't an option this time?

Fern Gully FTW

TERRA? Really?
Terra is the name for Earth in so many languages, and in another languages the name is very similar...
In Portuguese the translation is going to be really weird:
"A Terra foi destruida, então vamos invadir a Terra, nosso novo lar!"
"Earth has bee destroied, so let's go and invade 'Earth', our new home" [literal translation, including the "Terra" from the movie]
Couldn't they have been a little more creative and come up with a diferent name?
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my english sucks, but I had to say this!

Oh yeah, and I forgot to say, this plot sucks!
Alien Vs Monsters looks so much better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#2 right on man. Wall-E kicked fuckin ass. It was so much better looking than this garbage. Honestly, why do all the humans look like rejected Team Fortress 2 characters. And screw all these hollywood stars and their crappy voice acting Wall-E took three people and a Mac-book and came out a whole hell of a lot better than this.

For the record, FERN GULLY! WOOO!

"...in our darkest hour..."
"Oh MY!"
"IT'S A TRAP!"

Why hello there catch-phrase trash-bin, what goodies do you have for us today?

I realize that this was probably a stylistic choice but even the humans just look like extruded plastic pieces of crap. I get not trying to make them realistic but maybe you should try to use that to make them look good? Not crap.

Never mind the fact that both species would basically be wiped out by the diseases of the other. If the humans want to win the war, they should do it medieval style and toss some carcasses over the wall. Then they wait two months and drop in to find an alien population 1/100 what it was before.

"It's a trap!"

I like how the human ships looks like big crosses. Very sneaky.

Hey now, I liked the bat.
And least his song's anyway.

French Canadian Crap, chock full of America-bashing. I guess this is revenge for all the Canada-bashing in the South Park movie. I think I'll pass, and take my son to watch some wholesome Disney propaganda that will teach him that fathers are inept at parenting. It's better than him thinking that people (with American accents) are evil.

It's a shame this director didn't have enough imagination or skill as a writer to take a morally complicated scenario and let it be play out with some thought provoking subtlety. I guess that would have gotten in the way of making a political statement.

Maybe the trailer is just edited to appeal to the generation of "Change". I guess I should wait to hear how the actually movie unfolds.

This movie is going to fail like Doogal

It's a traaaaaap!!!!