Battleship: A Waterlogged Absurdity You Can Cheer For
Cinema Siren reviewed Battleship and says while it's not the next The Piano, it's most definitely ridiculous fun.
Battleship feels like a two-hour Navy recruitment video. I'm surprised blue and gold aren't the colors used on the movie poster, along with “GO NAVY!” and “BEAT ALIENS!” If you leave your brain at the front door of the multiplex on a day you feel like rooting for the home team, you could do worse than vacillating between cheering and snickering for those two hours of this completely ridiculous, raucous mash up of Independence Day, Pearl Harbor and Transformers. Director Peter Berg, of Friday Night Lights, The Kingdom, and Hancock, knows his way around the camera. So we can try to accept the fact that for some reason he feels the need to release his inner Michael Bay. What results is not exactly a good movie, but one that unapologetically …
Douglas Manuel
4:23 pm on Friday, May 18, 2012
Gee, a premise where the human race is rescued from an alien threat by Navy Battleships, hummm, thank goodness we have four of them. Oh wait, they were forced into retirement by budget cuts. I guess the human race is screwed! Don't worry, space aliens are not a realistic threat from the cosmos. Comets and meteoroids are the only realistic threat. Thank goodness America has a program that can … more ›