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At first viewing of this comedy by Jay Chandrasekhar I dismissed it as a completely cheesy and off-the-wall spoof movie we have all seen many times already, and I was right! The biggest difference is that this fun film tries to be something all it's own, while still spoofing all the ridiculous slasher movies from the 80s. Bill Paxton was hilarious in this movie! It makes me completely forgive him for being in Titanic.

I'm not going to go on and on about this film. I'll simply say that if you are looking for another Super Troopers movie, you will not find it here. But Broken Lizard delivers a pretty entertaining movie that will not disappoint those looking for a fun ride.

This is one of those films that was so over-rated when it was first released it is not even funny. It is very interesting to note that even though this film garnered so many Academy Awards, you don't see it on any critic's top ten list and it's not even in this site's top 250! How could this be, you ask? The answer is that this is a classic example of people over reacting to the greatness of a film before really looking deeply into it. This is not even a remotely accurate portrayal of events that occurred during the Titanic's tragic maiden voyage. Instead, it is just a bunch of tripe put together by an action director. You can tell, there are many out of place witty moments that simply do not belong in a film such as this. The characters were annoying and two dimensional and you felt no compassion at all when these people were sinking out at sea. Actually, these people were a bunch of arrogant jerks that deserved to die! The film simply did not show enough of the poor people in the under decks to even give a damn about them, they just showed far too much of Jack and Rose in all their silly Blue Lagooniness.

This film really did have potential, it really did, and it's not even all bad. The second half of the film with the boat sinking is some of the best action ever to be put on film. But this was not enough to save this film from sinking into mediocrity. I have to give James Cameron props for trying his skillful hand at drama, but man, go back to making action films--that is definitely your strong suit.

Being that this is a film based on a video game, one can only expect so much. This is one of those films that could have been so much better if they would have stuck more to the draw of the video game, which I hate to say, that is violence. When first finding out that the film would be PG-13, I figured this was the beginning of the end for this film. I know that the studio wants to make money, but come on! This is Mortal Kombat! It needs to be chock full of blood and "finishing moves." Instead this was just a cheap martial arts film filled with horrible acting and crummy directing. The only finishing move I was looking forward to while watching this stinker was the end credits!