LOL
I love that movie because it makes fun of the assumption that aliens from another planet will have some superior intellect.
..........the assumption that aliens from another planet will have some superior intellect.
If there is some superior intellect “Out there” it would naturally promulgate over time to such an extent that it was no longer superior but just a matter of fact.
I read a short story, decades ago, in a series of books called "There Will Be War." The story was about a civilization that attacks earth and is utterly defeated by the humans in short order. In the story, most civilizations quickly discover faster-than-light travel and rapidly move on to exploring their galaxies, but humans were stuck on stupid and instead sharpened their war fighting skills; so when the aliens attacked us they were basically using 16th century weapons and tactics, with their only superiority being in space travel. The story ends with some captured aliens realizing they had just handed the secrets to space travel to the most warlike species in the galaxy.