Wacky from start to finish and wildly uneven, the movie is funny far more often than it is dull. Wacky from start to finish and wildly uneven, the movie is funny far more often than it is dull. Writer Bill Kelly's inventive premise conjures up a national nightmare and feeds it to us with so much comic exaggeration that fear simply drains away as we watch an extremist caught in his own paranoia. Following along with a good cast engaging itself enthusiastically in the fun, the audience moves past initial stupefaction to total immersion.
Contagious laughter ripples through the theater.
This zany movie turns out to be endearing. Calvin is jubilant. His plans have been validated. He is exuberant in his rightness. At last he will get to use the secret underground refuge he has built to protect them during the 35-year radioactive danger period.