A mistake

Rating: Null/10 (23 July 2005)

As it was released more or less at the same time that "Batman Begins" and "War of the Worlds", I expected a bit of effort in this movie, in way to make it, if not interesting, at least entertaining. Well, no. It was neither the one nor the other. It's just a bad tale about five guys who fly out to space (for unimportant and basically unknown reasons, as if we all flew to space to make our picnics every weekend) who, due to an other unexplained failure, inexplicably turn to superheros, or to have superpowers in any case. The jokes are horrible. The plot is nowhere to be seen. The guys are hot (pheeew, one out of fifty!) and so is the girl (two out of fifty, then). The general impression is that someone had the idea of bringing Pixelart's "The Incredibles" out to the big screen in flesh and blood, but managed to extraviate the screenplay in the way. There's this fashion of taking superhero/Marvel characters into the theaters, but I have to say, if YOU (general moan) are ever planning to film "The Watchmen" or "V for Vendetta", please restrict yourselves from doing a big mistake like this movie was. For that's what it is: a mistake.