So much could be said about the shortcomings of this film: the really awful dialogue, the junior-high-school-drama-club acting, the cheesy special effects which smell more of laziness and incompetence than of a limited budget. But what fascinated me was the preponderance of foreign accents attached to roles that were supposedly all-American. This brings to my mind the idea that foreigners made this movie, and in doing so tried to represent American culture as they saw it. They wore what they saw as typical American clothes, spoke in what they saw as typical American vernacular English (albeit with pronounced though indeterminate accents), projected their view of typical American attitudes and gestures. Obviously, none of the characters portrayed are typical home-grown corn-fed Americans, but the foreign-born director, writers and actors evidently thought they were.
All of which must say something about how people from other countries see us Americans. What does it say? I'm not sure. Maybe they all think we're stupid. And if we watch movies like this, maybe we are.
All of which must say something about how people from other countries see us Americans. What does it say? I'm not sure. Maybe they all think we're stupid. And if we watch movies like this, maybe we are.