‘Honest trailer’ shows why Independence Day sequel sucked

LET’S face it, this year’s Independence Day sequel was a dog. Now an ‘honest trailer’ pokes fun at a film that was “so bad Will Smith did Suicide Squad instead.”

INDEPENDENCE Day was surely one of the best big dumb blockbusters of the 90s — but 20 years later, its much-hyped sequel arrived with a dull thud earlier this year.

Opening to terrible reviews, Independence Day Resurgence was a box office disappointment compared to its predeccesor, and the sequel’s tendency to ramp every element that worked in the original up to 11 (More explosions! More aliens! More spaceships!) made for exhausting viewing.

Jeff Goldblum is back playing his most popular character — “himself.”

Now that the dust has settled, the good folk at Screen Junkies have cut together another one of their popular ‘Honest Trailers’ (used to devastating effect last month for the Ghostbusters remake) to count the many and varied ways Independence Day Resurgence sucked.

The film brought back “all your favourite characters, except ... your favourite character,” referring to Will Smith, the original film’s leading man.

Instead, there’s his on-screen son, who was crippled in an accident that left him “entirely devoid of charisma.”

Sorry Hemsworth, you’re dreamy but you’re starring in a dud.

Resurgence is “a film so bad, Will Smith decided to do Suicide Squad instead,” the narrator quips, pointing out that the sequel is “twice the size and half the fun” with “more of the global destruction we’re completely numb to at this point.”

Poor old homegrown dreamboat Liam Hemsworth doesn’t escape the skewering, either — he’s nicknamed ‘Pretty Dry for a White Guy’.

Check out this much more honest trailer for one of 2016’s biggest duds below: