103 minutes

In theaters December 12, 2008

Rating: PG-13, Science fiction thriller

To purists who won't sit still for the remake of a movie classic, I say: the new The Day the Earth Stood Still I can live with.

Your fondness for, or even just familiarity with, "Klaatu barada nikto," the popular line of interplanetary dialogue from the unfashionably progressive 1951 science fiction drama, The Day the Earth Stood Still, may have a lot to say about how fully you respond to the new big-screen version.