brilliant comic parody that is a pastiche of earlier films

Rating: 9/10 (25 October 2001)

Steven Spielberg pokes fun at:- his earlier movies, classic movies, Hollywood in general and American society. This works on several levels but the plot is only used to tie together (the mostly in) jokes. On the surface its slapstick but compare opening sub/swimmer scene with shark/swimmer scene at the start of Jaws or the bomber fling through LA streets with the Starfighter attack on the Deathstar from Starwars. Every scene is a take off of an earlier film , see how many you can spot.