Dude where's my Monster

Rating: 4/10 (23 February 2008)

To say I disliked this film does not quite cut it, but having been dragged to it with the my dear lady we rarely agree on anything movie wise but we both agreed this movie felt hollow the characters where poor and you could have written the plot and the all the dialogue on the back of a packet of cigarettes, I thought the title should have been "Dude where's my Monster" great idea lets put the son of Bill & Ted in charge of the camera.
The camera work was overdone like Blair Witch project but with out the Witch more like an episode of friends invaded by Godzilla, the actors where of the archetypal yuppie variety my favourite bit was in tunnels when all the rats pass them and they stop dead and turn around and turn the night vision! Come on.
The ending well no spoilers but talk about cheesy, and who cares what it says backwards at the end mm maybe I'll watch the whole thing backwards it might get better but I doubt it, my dear lady summed it up about right "a hollow film for a hollow generation", me I thought it was 60% hype 40% film if it where marketed as a normal flick we would never have went to see it , so I suppose their campaign worked but it wont ever again.
If this film gets nominated for anything other than it's marketing campaign it will a sad indictment to depths which Hollywood has sunk, I mean did anybody notice they seem to have shared the same poor military that the rather badly done dragon wars had.
People claiming this piece of film masturbation is somehow a love story, maybe in the vain of your favourite Disney film but a complex work of adult themes of love it is not, if this film where food it would not even rate at a McDonalds level, more like a cheap hot dog from stall in a run down part of town a combination of wholly inedible parts covered with sauce and mustard to hide it's poor quality.