Simply Perfect

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Somewhere a SyFy producer found my own original work, for which I was awarded a second place ribbon in 4th grade, and corrupted the plot just enough to ruin that inspired work entirely! My story had no women and the special effects I imagined were far superior. These are nothing close to the quality fx I envisioned if my story was adapted for the screen. Of course, I expected changes would have to be made by Hollywood for various reasons but nothing as ridiculous as what those responsible for this abomination have made. Major plot points are retained but the actors and monsters in this are cartoon like! It is just as well that they didn't credit me because I know the little boy that wrote this epic product of his imagination many years ago had enough integrity to insist that his name be removed from the film and would accept no monetary reward for this kind of trash!

I don't know where to start. Some sick part of me enjoys the self-torture of the Sci-Fi/SyFy Originals, but after this one, I don't know how long I can hold on. I have limited knowledge of WW2 (I sucked in history), but even I knew this stuff was made-up! The Japanese guys had an American truck, and somehow the American women knew how to fly Japanese planes? Come on. And somehow they were going to fix their big broken planes with junk from a mostly abandoned Japanese camp ripped apart by blue pterodactyls? To add insult to injury, I don't care how big the dino is... it can't fly as fast as a plane. While watching the movie, I didn't know the planes topped out at 300mph, but I knew it had to be faster than any flying animal! The worst insult to my intelligence was the "fact" that the pterodactyls were fearless in ripping through planes (literally), which had loud engines, whirling sharp propellers, and of course someone in them shooting giant bullets at the monsters... and yet the dinos were terrified at the sight of a torch. A TORCH. Come on.I have literally read stories written by children in grade school with better and more well-planned plots than this. This Sci-Fi Original took its usual crap writing, crap acting, crap effects, and gigantic plot holes and somehow managed to make a mediocre movie even worse than usual. While watching this, I had the same feeling I get when I'm getting a cavity filled, thinking "God, how much longer is this going to go on?!" There is absolutely nothing redeemable about this movie, not one thing. There isn't any humor, any effect worth mentioning, nothing. It's completely worthless. If you see it on your schedule or think about renting it, do yourself a HUGE favor and just pass it by.

Like "Mighty Peking Man", this movie makes no sense, but fails miserably to be boring. Look beyond the baaaaaaaad acting, the immense lapses in logic, and there are some truly comic tidbits to be cherished. The monsters seem to change size at will, the makeup never smears in the tropic heat, and the 40s hairdos a tad stylish for the military, the amazing plane restoration with no parts or tools, no one seems to eat anything, the South Pacific island looks suspiciously like your local park............ I could go on and on, but wait there is one more thing, the lead actor looks like he could take 6th place in a Bill Paxton look-alike contest. Maybe I better end it here before I keel over laughing. - MERK

The plot premise and the CGI aren't all that bad. However, the plot development is atrocious. The WASP skipper can't take a single order without an argument. The "warbirds" out fly 300 MPH aircraft. They don't attack the Yanks in the Japanese camp after the first encounter -- they're scared off by the boy scout campfire? Gimme a break. They don't attack the B-29 under repair. Oops! We're fixing those two incinerated Wright R-3350-23 and 23A turbosupercharged radial engines with spare parts found laying around on a remote Japanese fighter base? Oh, and all the female flight crew just happen to be certified fighter jocks who are checked out in Japanese Zeros... yep.I can't believe that people write this kind of crap, expecting to sell it, and I really can't believe someone bought it and spent more money producing it, and I really, really can't believe Brian Krause doesn't make enough off "Charmed" residuals to run yelling and screaming far, far away after reviewing this script.I rate this a "One" simply because there is no "Zero" (pun)! You have to really wonder if the Sci Fi Channel would not be far, far better off rerunning old '50s B&W "Saturday Night at the Drive-In" features. Could somebody with a little clout make this recommendation before these guys self-immolate?