In case you missed it twenty years ago, a little movie called INDEPENDENCE DAY came out, which shot The Fresh Prince into superstardom and gave us a rip-roarin’ good time at the movies in the summer of 1996. Yeah, it was cheesy and preposterous, but it also featured Jeff Goldblum doing his very best Jeff Goldblum, the best motivational speech by a movie president of all time, an epic score by David Arnold, and set the stage for Roland Emmerich‘s disaster-thon style of entertainment for decades to come, which is set to be commemorated this week with the long-anticipated sequel, INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE. So, kick the tires and light the fires in this recap of one of the cheesy best summer blockbusters ever made.
INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE opens this week.