Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it's a 12yr old script writer again.

Rating: Null/10 (10 June 2002)

Special effects 10, script nil. A great home win there for effects - and not a surprise result given recent form. The script team went for numbers and youth again in an attempt to hit the right tactical combination, but once again their juvenile front line promised little and delivered laughable scene after scene.
I don't think Dunst can act at the best of times, but no one with the lines she had to deliver was going to impress. The funeral and hospital scenes must go down as the two most embarrassingly bad moments in this very weak movie. How could the writers/ directors etc. listen to this and not squirm as lines a 12yr old girl would be proud of were delivered with technique that would shame a day time soap? How ?
And if anyone says that this was all a deliberate attempt to hit the 'comic book style' - they're deluding themselves. Go see Superman if you want to see how it should be done. At one point Dunst's character says she has been told she needs acting lessons. How I wanted to scream out - ' Listen to them, girl. They know what they are talking about'. I suspect that this may have been a joke at Dunst's expense.....
Please - will someone make the script the most expensive item in a film? - Just for once....?
GRrrr