CGM Reviews BATTLESHIP

You probably don’t need me to tell you this, but Battleship is a bad movie. Who would have ever predicted that the movie based on a plastic peg based board game would turn out to be a stupid? Now, there are a handful of moments where that stupidity seems deliberate and aimed at provoking campy laughs. Had that tone been consistent all the way through, there is a slight chance that it could have been big dopey fun. But, that didn’t happen. The good news is that since the whole tedious endeavor is such an obvious disaster and faces off against the new Sacha Baron Cohen joint and the still thriving Avengers this weekend, there’s a damn good chance it will bomb. That would be fantastic because the opening logo stream for Battleship included a card for Hasbro, suggesting that the toy company made enough money off of the Transformers and G.I. Joe flicks to open up a film production wing with dreams of cranking out annual action figure adaptations like Marvel Studios did with their comics. Let’s just prey Battleship does poorly enough for Hasbro to get second thoughts about rushing out their cinematic treatments for Lite-Brite, Play-Doh, and the Easy Bake Oven (surely that won’t should be saved for a Saturday morning food network series, no?)