Movie: District 9 (2009)

“In 1982, a massive star ship bearing a bedraggled alien population, nicknamed “The Prawns,” appeared over Johannesburg, South Africa. Twenty-eight years later, the initial welcome by the human population has faded. The refugee camp where the aliens were located has deteriorated into a militarized ghetto called District 9, where they are confined and exploited in squalor. In 2010, the munitions corporation, Multi-National United, is contracted to forcibly evict the population with operative Wikus van der Merwe in charge. In this operation, Wikus is exposed to a strange alien chemical and must rely on the help of his only two new ‘Prawn’ friends. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)”

• Director: Neill Blomkamp
• Release Date:
  14 August 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  112 min
• Country: USA , New Zealand
• Genre: Action , Drama , Sci-Fi , Thriller
• MPAA:
  Rated R for bloody violence and pervasive language.

Tagline: You are not welcome here.

Trivia: The creatures used in the small fighting arena were meant to be rodents/pests which were aboard the ship.

Goofs: Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Wikus walks into the Nigerian base, Obesandjo says he has a lot of guts for a white man. But the word he uses for “white man” is the Kiswahili word “mzungu”. Kiswahili is widely spoken in East Africa, but not in South Africa or Nigeria.