Battleship Review

Quick Summary - Aliens come to earth.  They fight some warships. 

Quick Review - Meh

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440129/

I was excited for battleship, even if nobody else was.  Aliens show up, and trap some battleships in a forcefield, and create a grid, and then they have good old fashioned blind naval warfare to duke it out.  And from the makers of GI Joe! 

I must say, I was disappointed.  About an hour into it I was thinking holy crap this is awful.  The initial setup was overly long and even more overly pointless.  The characters weren't particularly likable, and every decision they made was just obviously wrong.  And aside from the aliens and the ridiculous premise, the basic premise of things like it being a navy ship and how that ship was run didn't make any sense and were poorly done.  The obnoxious absurdity outweighed the enjoyable silliness, and the result was not good.

After about an hour though it picked up a little bit, and the scales tipped back towards silliness.  We got into them playing live action battleship, and we start finding out some more about the aliens.  By the end I had at least come to terms with how awful it was going to be and was ready to enjoy some explosions and alien ass kicking.  Suffice it to say in that in that, I was not disappointed.