at least they didn't sound as ridiculous as the "bambi-burster" as it is called from the special edition of A3, lol. Yeah TITAN, I have to agree, the queen just didn't act like a queen, it was bascially just a different looking t-rex in the movie, which completely contradicted everything that a queen is supposed to be. The aliens themselves were quite well done I thought (although the CG was probably overused in certain scenes & it wasn't exactly the best I've ever seen) although the aliens hands were poorly done, their big rubbery looking fingers just didn't give the illusion of being deadly weapons. I personally think that the sfx were stupid. I prefer the classic alien sounds, especially the ones from aliens. You just don't get that nostalgic alien "feel" without the classic sfx.
The predators were done good in some scenes, bad in others. Celtic in particular I thought was very well done. While I still don't think that the preds looked anywhere near as good as the first 2, they still looked reasonable enough. There are a few faults with them though. First of all, the hands were done poorly, as the texturing on the gloves went from dark tones & colours on the knuckles, to pale white on the palms, without much oradient separating the radically different colour tones, which looked ridiculous. The preds faces also looked terrible, just the way the mandibles were positioned etc. looked unnatural, & not anywhere near as good as the first 2, & again, the sfx were an issue. Overall, neither the aliens nor the preds in the movie managed to conjure up that special feel that their predecessors did.