Pop Corn Movie not to be take seriously

Rating: Null/10 (23 November 2004)

National Treasure could have been a quasi-Indiana Jones film, but the story had more holes than a prairie dog metropolis, the dialog was lame, the acting was wooden (n-1 dimensional), and basically the flaws could only be compensated by lots of noise and plenty of boinks. This film reminds me a little of Disney's "Black Hole". Great concept, horrific execution. Where is the production supervision? How can a Jerry Buckheimer film get re-edited down to 100 minutes and come out so vanilla? If you're wondering why it finished ahead of Sponge Bob Square Pants I can think of two reasons. People were ready for a more adult movie (ha ha) and much of Sponge Bob's following is too young to go to the movies. I give this a five for a good sound design, and a one for everything else. Ugh.