Okay, not a film that is likely to appeal to anyone here, but I'll toss this out: It's 80% absolutely spectacular fx, 1% story and 19% the most appealing appeal to visit the National Air & Space Museum I've ever seen.

I am glad to see special effects come of age. Here, they are overused by gobs and front-and-center far too much, but you know what? They aren't there to show off or stand by themselves, as trick fx often are in their early days. It's more a case of "ooh, ooh, let's do this!"... and it's something so wonderfully bizarre and un-doable in earlier eras that it's fascinating to see it work out on screen.

As a MILD SPOILER, the action actually chases into the famous Eisenstadt photo of the sailor kissing the nurse... and it's seamlessly believable on all fronts. (It also sets up a fairly funny end-credits easter egg...)

It's a very lightweight movie, almost completely forgettable, but a good cruncher while you're there because, say, there are no other new kid movies out and the wife is out of town.

I liked it much better than the other three movies I saw this weekend (Angels and Demons, Terminator Salvation, and Dance Flick). But then, I'm always a sucker for Amy Adams. Every time. And she's radiant in this one.

Dave Strauss is a History teacher in St. Louis. He used to host a call-in trivia show on KMOX radio on Sunday nights with Art Fleming. You could hear it over most of the eastern US.

One year he was working on seeing 1000 movies in a calendar year. I think he did it.

I don't have too much trouble believing that, not if the supposed national average of television watching exceeds 8 hours a day. Six hours of watching movies would be trivial.

Like speed-reading, though, I'd question his grasp of most of the movies. Letting them play vacantly in front of you is one thing; really watching them is another. I'm a fairly serious movieholic and I need chewing time after most films.