The Reason Spielberg Doesn't Do Comedies

Rating: 3/10 (19 August 2004)

Okay, so Jaws, the Indiana Jones trilogy, Close Encounters, Jurassic Park, etc. etc. etc. gave me great respect for Steven Spielberg. This movie made me want to punch him in the jaw. I mean, I still have the respect, but I'd just like to give him a quick jab to even things out.
A "comedy" in the loosest term of the word. So my friend and I were talking a while back about whether any comedies about war had ever been made, and then we saw that there was this movie. Hey, and it was directed by Steven Spielberg. Cool! Then, of course, we actually saw the movie.
In the vein of Airplane! and The Naked Gun! except not funny; that's probably the best way to describe it. The plot revolves around an ensemble of people during a fictional Japanese invasion of Los Angeles in WWII. To those who think it was wrong and insulting to do a comedy during a war: 1) it wasn't funny anyway, and 2) what's the difference between doing a comedy set during a war and doing a romance set during a war?
Sorry, just ranting about Pearl Harbor. I mean, think of if they made a romance movie based around 9/11... anyway, stay away from this movie unless you laugh at anything. Krog out.