Warbirds (2008)

During the war in the Pacific, a female bomber-crew escorting another team home crash-lands on an island inhabited with Japanese soldiers along with a swarm of prehistoric pterodactyls and must work together to escape the creatures.While not being really bad, this here had some good points. One of the best is that there's a ton of action in here, much more than expected in this kind of film and really brings the pace along quite well. The film's fast pace and really enjoyable action make this one really fun, since it's always moving and never really slowing down and just keeps the film going. The air battles in here are top-notch, with a lot of absolutely fun and enjoyable battles in the skies, from the strong opening which manages to throw in some action and suspense that works here while the centerpiece battle in the middle of the film, which is the first course of action against them, is the biggest and the best with a lot of diving and twisting aerial maneuvers that showcase some great battle tactics on their side, and the sight of a plane flying into a sea of creatures with guns blazing, firing off rounds of ammo and tearing up dozens of creatures is good cheesy fun at it's best. It's also responsible for it's best kill, where the creature dives through a plane at full speed from above downward through the cockpit and tearing the plane to dozens of pieces, crashing into the waves below. A later air battle, which includes a couple great moments of the creatures making inroads on the planes leads to some great suspense, and the scene rarely suffers from lack of action as there's more fighting off the creatures in aerial battles in here. There's also a really fun sequence with them on-land as they sneak supplies away from the creature's nesting grounds, and when they arouse suspicion leads to some really fun chasing and encounters through the forest. The last part is the creatures in here are pretty cool as well, being really nice-looking and fearsome, and are one of the better designs available. These here are what really help the film as this one did have some flaws to it that held it down. One of the biggest here is that the film is really dry for a creature feature as there's hardly any gore in here. There's no blood in here from the kills, and with a respectable body count that this one has, it should've had something much bloodier. Some of this is the misplacement of the Japanese prisoners, since despite looking like prime meat for the creatures none of them come into contact with one and are killed off elsewhere, a huge misstep for their being included and another reason for the low blood-count. The last flaw is the utter and laughable CGI in here, which is frequently used and how often it fails to impress by looking exactly like a CGI creation. It's old-hat for these films, as they're often like that and another entry won't hurt it much. These here are the film's flaws.Rated PG-13: Violence and some Language.

A real stinker of a movie. Terrible acting, tatty hair and makeup. It was about half way through when I started hoping the monsters would eat the lot of them and do us all a favor. In this day and age when we have extraordinary special effects at hand including cgi, why turn out a movie that disappoints in every way?The actor that played the part of the colonel did a decent job with his role, in fact I would have to say that he was the only one who put any effort into it. I hated the lipstick the women wore all through the film, garish reds, they didn't look like cast aways who had just crash landed on a small island. my whole family hated this film, we won't ever watch a movie by this director again!!

Flying dinosaur creatures, Japanese spy soldiers, American GI guys, pretty W.A.C.'s who are hot shot pilots, a mysterious covert mission; put them all on a remote Pacific island during WWII, and stir vigorously into a broth called Warbirds.It's a mindlessly fun watch, since the film suffers from Sci-Fi Channelitis. A familiar plot: military fighting a conventional enemy, while ferocious monsters lurk in the shadows, soon jumping out and croaking soldiers from both sides. A lot of jargon is used in this movie: when they're not saying, "Roger that!" or "Over!," they're being insubordinate to a cog-in-the-machine military brass Colonel whose last name is "Inept," or at least it should be.Why are the creatures there? How many? What are they? Unknown and never explained, but the supply of them never runs out. Every time anybody wants to fly a plane, these things swarm out of nowhere. Their CGI design is OK, but far from groundbreaking. They screech loudly while they slash and smash anything they see. The dogfights are hilarious: when one of them is shot, it explodes into a fireball, lol. Since this movie doesn't know if it's a war movie or a monster movie, it has cornball clichés from both. Example: Whenever the opposing soldiers confront one another, guess what flying monster crashes the party at a key moment.The ending is pretty colorful, but its depiction of what happens is (and I'm putting this nicely) inaccurate.Plenty of suspension of disbelief is necessary for this movie. A sense of humor for the sublimely nonsensical is also helpful.

SciFi Channel Original Movie: Jurassic Park + Amelia Earhardt + Pitch Black + a pinch of WW2 = Warbirds 2008.I would have to call it a "Good bad movie", as most of the acting is cheesy, and there is only one type of boring flying dinosaur.The dialog is filled with so many over used clichés, and homilies, you would do well not to be drinking anything while watching it, as it can be truly laughable. What was even funnier, was their repairing their plane out in the open, with barely guarded prisoners, falling for the "Oh I feel so faint!" ruse from one of them. And how the heck would a Japanese soldier know what a Geiger Counter was,and why it was clicking?! Yeah, like they would all miss the other guy sneaking into the big bomber plane. Yeesh! It was good to do a "MST3K" while watching it with friends.But I do wonder how all these female pilots, out on an uncharted island, in harsh jungle conditions, keep their ruby red lipstick, and don't even chip a nail, after a few days. But I do like how the "Skipper" saves the Colonels' butt on more than one occasion.