Seriously why does this movie want us to feel sorry for a swarm of bugs (that attacked us first!) when the entire human species is at stake? When it comes to intergalactic war it's literally us or them. That's not a hard choice to make.
And it was silly how they were all being a bunch of crybabies after realizing they had just won the war that they spent the whole movie training for.
I know it's just a kids movie but it was fairly enjoyable up until the end.
Because the movie was based on a book, and that Ender's epiphany and resultant sympathy was the whole premise behind the book on which the film was based on.
Card basically adapted his short story into a novel in order to create its subsequent sequels that revolve, to put it very simply, around the challenges with communicating with species alien to our own.
Humanity presumed that it was not possible to communicate with the Formics. This turned out not to be true as Ender realized shortly after eliminating most of the species.
That's the whole point of the movie and book. Just because a species is "just bugs" as you put it doesn't make them lesser. They were a sentient species, the queens had a range of thoughts and emotions that surpassed that of humans. They attacked us first because they thought we were "just bugs" as well. When they realized we were sentient they left us alone. They were running out of resources and desperately needed water to survive.
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