I saw Alien R in theaters when I was in 7th grade. (I secretly skipped school to watch first showing.) Even at that age it was hard for me to buy the whole cloning aspect of it.
And when Ripley fell through the grates in the floor on the Auriga to land on...what...the top of the hive and got sucked through?! MAN...I HATED THAT!
The pregnant queen made perfect sense. The newborn in theory was cool, in execution...I've seen worse creatures in the past.
I did like the lot of characters they introduced and wish I could've seen more of them.
Oh and come on guys, it was a hoot hearing CHUCKY explain the Alien anomalies.