Starship Troopers for idiots

Rating: 1/10 (8 June 2001)

Pear Harbor is Starship Troopers without the irony, wit and intelligence. It has the same plot as Troopers; the same mindless gung ho (it's remarkable that America, which panics these days at the thought of just one US bodybag, should produce a film extolling the merits of sacrifice); and the same homoerotic, fascist aesthetic - Leni Riefenstahl meets Norman Rockwell. Perhaps this was the screenwriter's little joke - pretend to write a serious film about war and then smuggle through a camp satire of American self-delusion, patriotism and political correctness.