 Unusual sci-fi invasion film, with a black-comedy twist: The Earth is taken over by The Monitors, aliens who run it like hall monitors in a 1950 s high school, with overtones of Big Brother. The film follows the progress of the human underground rebellion. The twist is that as the film goes on, the audience s sympathies shift to the aliens, who are basically benevolent. When the humans manage to oust them, it s back to corruption and bribery by the usual suspects.