Cultural References
The film contains many cultural references of movies. A fake opening is the same opening to The Lion King. There is even the actual footage of Indiana Jones being chased by the boulder in Raiders of the Lost Ark. In the school gym, while fish fell from the paper Empire State Building, Runt says that beauty killed the beast in reference to King Kong's end. The little alien kid being left behind on earth is a reference to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The alien invasion has many similar shots to Independence Day and War of the Worlds, notably the shadow of the alien craft covering the city and the notion of vaporizing people. Product Placement in the film includes the Tic Tac candy, which the town's mayor is obsessed with, and the alien's violation code number is 90210, the ZIP code of Beverly Hills, California. There is also a reference to Ridley Scott's Alien, in which Runt thinks that the aliens implanted an embryo into Fish by using a Facehugger type creature.
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