Warbirds (2008) (TV)

Director:

Kevin Gendreau

Writers:

Kevin Gendreau (screenplay)
Kevin Gendreau (story)

Release Date:

19 April 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller | War

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Dinosaur | WWII | Island | Beautiful Woman | Soldier

Cast

Jamie Elle Mann	...	Max West
Brian Krause	...	Jack Toller
Tohoru Masamune	...	Ozu
Lucy Faust	...	Hoodsie Smith
David Jensen	...	Colonel W.R. Hamilton
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gizza Elizondo	...	Vicky Teeling
Stephanie Honore	...	Lana
Henry Ku	...	Kodama
Jon Mccarthy	...	Sgt. Murphy
Marel Medina	...	Katzu
Caleb Michaelson	...	Sergeant John Lee
Dennis Nguyen	...	Takashi
Shauna Rappold	...	Betsy Quigley

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Company:

New Symphony Pictures

Goofs:

Plot holes: How could the Colonel have made it back to the airfield on foot in the same time as the truck?

Movie Connections:

References King Kong (1933)

W.A.C.'s vs. a whack script

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.