Battleship

I took my little lad and one of my big lads to see this film.

As per usual, all those film reviews which gave it one or two stars turned out to be very reliable - the film was AWESOME.

It was about 50% Transformers, 30% Independence Day, and 5% Mars Attacks. They filmed it on the scene of Pearl Harbour, the aliens borrowed the protective shield from the last Harry Potter film and/or War Of The Worlds, the injured veteran was using Gary Sinise's artificial legs from Forrest Gump and to round things off the old guys from the Crimson Permanent Assurance hi-jacked their own ship and saved the day, one of whom was a foul mouthed old yob like the butler in Arthur.

The list goes on: there was a football match between sworn enemies like Escape to Victory, the blonde love interest was basically Kelly McGillis out of Top Gun, it had a female American popstar (Rihanna) in it like Austin Powers in Goldmember (which had Beyoncé), and like Iron Man 2, the soundtrack had two songs by AC/DC, only they used two good ones, "Hard as a rock" and "Thunderstruck".

And so on and so forth. we're still trying to work out which film the two geeks on the mountain were from, Wayne's World, perhaps? Funniest of all is one of the key scenes was towards the end where they are firing at random using grid co-ordinates, like in the good old fashioned game "Battleships" (upon which the Hasbro game is based and in turn on which the film is loosely based).