Roland Emmerich's "Moonfall," released in theaters back in February, is an incredibly stupid film. That statement is not meant as a value judgment, but a mere descriptor. It could even be construed as a compliment. As overwrought, visually busy, dunderheaded disaster blockbusters go, they don't get much more unabashedly fatuous as "Moonfall." It's a film that offers synergistic enhancement to alcohol. Its dumb ideas are, if one is honest, strangely fun and appealing. "Moonfall" would make a great double feature with "Geostorm." Which was, incidentally, made by Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich's longtime writing partner.

The premise of "Moonfall" is simple. Earth's moon is falling from its orbit, causing flooding and weird gravitational anomalies all over the world. Patrick Wilson, Halle Berry, and John Bradley find, through a very elaborate investigation process, that the moon is not a heavenly body that formed naturally, but an ancient alien superstructure housing a...