Continuity mistake: Mr. Furlong pushes Zeke into the fishing tank and it breaks, soaking him from head to toe with water. Moments later they are walking out and he is dry.

The Faculty (1998)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Salma Hayek, Famke Janssen, Robert Patrick, Josh Hartnett, Jordana Brewster, Bebe Neuwirth, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris
Josh Hartnett discovers that his drug (which is actually made mostly of caffeine pills) kills the alien since they seem to be water based. Clea DuVall believes that if you find and kill the head alien, everyone will be okay. Turns out that MaryBeth is the head alien. Casey kills her, Casey and Delilah hook up, so do Clea DuVall and Shawn Hatosy, Josh Hartnett joins the football team and everything else goes back to normal.
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Stan: Come on guys, this is nuts.
Delilah: Then leave, Stan. Why are you hanging around? Go win a Pulitzer.
Stan: Blow me, Delilah, 'cause I'm sick of you're shit.
Delilah: Well, then get the fuck out of here and take your little freak dyke with you.
Stokely: Fuck you, tit bags.
Casey: Will everybody calm down, please?
Trivia: In the beginning of the movie, Marybeth asks a girl with a piercing where the office is. That girl is actually the director Robert Rodriguez's sister, and she has a tattoo in the same place where George Clooney had in From Dusk Till Dawn, another of Rodriguez's movies.
Question: Why are the aliens in that town? If they come from a oceanic planet then why not go directly into one of our five or so oceans?
Answer: Whales and dolphins also lack manipulating appendages and the ability to survive on land.
Answer: The aliens need to infect intelligent life to thrive. There is no intelligent life in our oceans.
Answer: Well if they need to stay hydrated whales and dolphins make more sense than inhabiting people.
Dolphins and whales are also far less numerous. With populations numbering fewer than 10 million total across all species versus nearly 6 billion at the time for humanity.
Answer: It could be the salt or pollution. The aliens were drinking nothing but pure bottled water.
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Answer: The aliens needed fresh water. All the infected were drinking bottled water. When the gang were examining the slug in the garage, it dried up and died from salt, like a snail.