WOW....I want that hour and 10 minutes of my life back

Rating: 2/10 (2 July 2008)

Oh let me count the ways in which this movie sucked....
The first scene was GREAT...then the credits start...and then it's ALL OVER.
1. trite lines. ...poor writing throughout. These are the most hard to listen to 60's-isms I'v EVER heard. And I'm one of the few who actually liked Steal This Movie
....really "just, wow...like...groovy man like totally way out were going to ...like...use drugs man" EVEN SCOOBY DOO didn't talk this way! if you spoke like that in the 60's EVEN the squares would'v known you were full of it.
2. Crappy second rate actors and actresses......and I mean that...these actors SUCK ...and they suck worse in this then they usually do...and they USUALLY suck...but they're UNBAREABLE in this waste of time.
3. Second rate "seen it" kind of special effects ...there is NOTHING special about ANY of these visual effects. They might'v been special if they'd been filmed in the 70's or 80's....by now we'v come to expect WAY better. Heck...I'd prefer to watch the special effects in Evil Dead 2.
4. Bono's appearance in this film feels so retarded....looks like a cross between Buffalo Bill and Tom Cruise's character in Born on the 4th of July....the trails in that scene are likely the ONLY special effect I could suggest was "well" done....but more like medium-well (as in a steak) since I'v seen that effect before...and so, yawn.
5. The singing...god the singing was like what happens off Broadway...at auditions.....tiny little child voices sent through compressors and high gain pr's to get back to level...and they sound forced pinched, and at times just plain amateur.
6.the dancing....WEAK...who choreographed this Brittney Spears?
...and Gay references on EVERY side....none of them direct enough to be considered brave...just suggestion...really just semi-naked men dancing with Army Soldiers kind of what are you smoking kind of bad allusion sort of male-macho=repressed gay tendency sort of implication without the balls to come RIGHT OUT AND JUST SAY you think army men are gay...but make them semi-naked and dancing together...well that's OK...COME ON!
I'm NOT a homo-phobia...trust me on this...I LOVE the movie Velvet Goldmine...but if you think macho=gay...then HAVE THE FREAKING GUTS TO SAY IT DIRECTLY in the dialog....don't hide behind your weak choreographer's work to say it....you wusses.
I do think the privates (in their privates..ha ha) carrying (a fat) statue of liberty is THE PERFECT visual to explain EXACTLY what is happening to our foreign policy...but I keep my policy out of this movie review.
Dude....I fast forwarded the last 20 minutes....not worth it to me. I saw the "plot" ....if you can call it that....weak...really really really weak finish.
Watch the first few minutes....get past the waves of the ocean thing....fast forward to the statue of liberty thing....maybe check out the benefit of Mr Kite....a little ....maybe....
the whole rest of this movie is a TOTAL and complete wash out....
I resent that I paid $4.99 to on demand this trite pile of trash.