BATTLESHIP (no spoilers)

[moviePig]

Last summer's campy extravaganza BATTLESHIP indeed resembles a summer-
camp production ...raucous, good-natured, and wildly variable in its
proficiencies. For me, its sole (very modest) intrigue was in
watching its screenwriters jump through hoops to arrive, even
momentarily, at a big-screen nod to 'battleship,' the pastime game
familiar to pre-video kids everywhere. Otherwise, this flick is all
about spending $200m on CGI. (Still, remember that investment in
coding-techniques for rendering massive objects flouncing through tons
of ocean will undoubtedly add visual value to future spectaculars. So
there's that.) Critics ran the gamut on BATTLESHIP, and it's fair to
admit that such openly pseudo-earnest silliness can be a comfort
food. So, instead of my usual carefully weighed recommendation, I'll
mention only that my household watched the first of BATTLESHIP's two
hours, and, next evening, flipped a coin about watching the second.

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