Will the dark political allegory (and ass-kickin robots) of “District 9” redeem a crap-movie summer?
Andrew O’Hehir Jul. 10, 2009 | Courtesy of Sony Pictures Image from “District 9.” You don’t expect much from a sci-fi spectacle flick to be released in August — traditional dumping ground for lice-infested studio rubbish — but “District 9,” the forthcoming alien-apartheid actioner produced by “Lord of the Rings” godhead Peter Jackson and directed by South African effects wizard Neill Blomkamp, definitely has the Internets abuzz. In large part, of course, that’s because most summer cinema is so unbelievably dumb that any marginal sign of life is greeted by fans as a latter-day dispensation of loaves and fishes. Over at SpoutBlog, Christopher Campbell has a nifty roundup of reactions to the new “District 9” trailer from fan-type bloggers and so-called journalistic professionals alike. My own reaction is that it’s impressive how many people devote significant chunks of their lives to jesuitical, reading-the-tea-leaves study of unreleased and probably crappy genre movies — where, oh whe
