Rooting for the Iceberg

Rating: 2/10 (11 June 2006)

Aimed precisely at those with the emotional maturity of 13-year-old children, Titanic, while technically impressive, is perhaps the most overrated tripe to float out of Hollywood's shipyard of overblown hype. Here you have perhaps the worst single tragedy of the 20th century, and, what do we get? -- A phony, forced, class struggle "love" story so poorly written that no one with half a brain cares one whit about the characters. Obviously, the producers of this shipwreck of a film assume that the public is too dull to let the sheer drama of the event itself sustain the story, so we're assaulted by perhaps the worst script ever written. Not only is there not one once of truthful human emotion in the screenplay, it's insulting as well.
The Poseidon Adventure, as trite as it was, had more veracity than this muddle.
Titanic will lower your IQ, guaranteed, and probably cause warts too. If you need to see a film about this fateful night that actually treats its audience like an adult, rent A Night to Remember, a vastly superior film.
Two stars for technical achievement only.