I really hate to say this, I will be going to see it. I know I do not have high hopes but I am slightly bored being down to a medical issue. I will report back,lol.


Bullet

I'm looking forward to reading your review! I dont think anyone here thinks Battleship will be a serious movie but hey, if it entertains that's good enough.

Yes it,s entertaining,funny in places,bit out there in others.Special effects well done and acting not too bad.Action scenes well done with fairly believeable circumstances.Aliens are different to what I expected

The film's military advisers should have told the admiral, Liam Neeson, to get a haircut!

My son, 13, saw it and said it was bad

I remember playing Battleship as a kid. The thing that really struck me was the lack of space aliens in what would otherwise have been a realistic naval warfare environment. Knowing what kind of incredulous reactions my analysis would have gotten, I kept my opinion to myself.

Reminds me of when I played Operation and that stupid buzzing vibrator went off if I touched the metal edges with my surgical instruments. I kept thinking, what if this dude's chest opened like a big mouth with teeth and bit both my hands off at the elbows.

Back when all my friends were playing Dungeons-n-Dragons I kept thinking, wouldn't it be cool if we ordered a pizza and met an extra-terrestrial botanist who got left behind by his exploratory group.

I won't bore you guys with the time I was playing Hungry Hungry Hippos because you can probably make the leap to Hunger Games yourselves, but as you can see I was a visionary.

Went to see it the other night with the GF. I warned her this was going to be the worst movie ever made. I didn't know how right I was. They used every cliché in the book and added the same "recruitement poster" flavour from transformers. Really, really bad. Everyone in the room started laughing when they reactivated the Missouri. Not only is reactivating the Missouri scenaristically very far fetched, the scene itself has the old Battleship's tonnage worth of cheese in it. Awful...

That said the CGI wasn't bad, and if you can manage to turn off your brain and sneak in the shipping crate of salt you'll need to take the movie with not to leave the theatre halfway through, it's quite pleasing on the eyes...

Half a thumb up for the soundtrack though (except for the very last song, which is just another cliché) and for the one scene where they create the link with the Hasbro game. That one was pretty well done... Well, it wasn't half as bad as the others...

Cheers

Nico

Thanks for the review vonBarb.

This film was quite obviously just a big paycheck for Liam Neeson and nothing more.

It was a good popcorn yarn, I didn't expect anything else.

Lots of booms! And good CGI.

Get the old girl ready to roll and kick some cylon, er, alien ass!
Maybe they took a note from BSG, where one of the launch bays was a gift shop and not launch capable in the beginning. They even used Vipers from the museum to get in the fight.