This short movie didn't really get its 15 minutes of fame when it came out. Maybe, because it's run time was honestly, just 11 minutes with 4 minutes of credits. Still, it was very surprising, a pretty good parody of some of director Michael Bay & Jerry Bruckheimer's biggest films. Amazing work by director Robert Moniot & writer, Taz Goldstein! Brought back fond memories from back when spoofs were good like the Zucker brothers's flicks, every Monty Python's movies, and most of Mel Brook's films; rather the obnoxious 'movie genre' movies, series such as 2007's Epic Movie and 2006's Date Movie. This movie was pretty clever with its humor. It didn't shove, too many movie references into one short movie. It didn't became too crowd and too unfocused. The people that did this movie, work with what they got with the source material. The people that did this, also work on the short line, 1999's George Lucas in Love. So, you know that the production for this short were going to be pretty epic. It has alright special effects quality for production of this kind. Certainly, not a feature film level, but the synthesized images really do mirror that of the film, Pearl Harbor. The short movie is well-shot with tracking shots to the crane shot to others. It doesn't look, one bit amateurism. It didn't look hasty made. It also didn't felt tiresome to watch. Most the jokes in the film, were pretty new at the time so they hit the funny bone, much more than later Michael Bay's spoofs. You have to remember that in 2001, Michael Bay wasn't as a big joke as he is today, because his tropes and clichés were kinda new to audience. After the big disappointment that was Michael Bay's 2001's historic love story, Pearl Harbor; it was now wide open to anybody to parody his films without seeming like unlikeable unfavorable opinion of something that most people love or playing against the crowd. People want people to make fun of Pearl Harbor, because they felt Michael Bay's film was horrible, and people like Taz Goldstein and Robert Moniot capitalize on it. It didn't felt too dated in the jokes. Jokes like the 'armed Iraq' deserve another hindsight, after all. It was made before 2003's Iraq War. The only thing, bad about the film is that it didn't have enough material to make a normal comedy movie with a run time of an hour and a half. Maybe, that's a good thing. Who knows? The movie could had been horrible if the movie ran a little longer than 11 minutes. It does seem hard to stretch jokes for that long. Maybe that's why Internet spoofs are so popular, and low grade movie parodies are slowly dying. Pearl Harbor 2: Pearlmageddon just knew, how long to take their idea for. The movie starts after the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor on 1941, the US president, Franklin D. Roosevelt (Bryan Clark) learns that a gigantic meteorite will crash on Pearl Harbor. He knows that it will take a team composed of the best men to save the world. Ben (Nicholas Shinners) & Matt Ripley (Jim Rothman) feels like they are the men to do the job, but both friends are torn apart due to the love of a girlfriend, Gwen (Hallie Beaune). Who will Gwen choose? Will the world be save on time? Watch it to find out! The actors did pretty well in their roles. None of them were annoying or overstay their welcome. By the way, the actors, really resemble the real actors, in their portrayal. It's pretty cool to see, how much, they look like the real actors, Affleck, Damon and Paltrow. They did act, over the top cartoony, but it was needed for the role. The movie plot is a bit silly, somewhat dated and rather predictable, but you can't take the movie, too seriously. Was the movie offended to the original victims of the tragedy? Somewhat—but let's remember, the movie is parodying the film, not the real events. The short movie can be found in the internet, or in the DVD, 'Short Collection'. Most of the picture quality in those copies are quite good. So look it up if you want to. Overall: I give the director of Pearlmageddon mad props for making this film. I laughed hard. Is it the best spoof? Sadly, no, but its works with its means. It's more than I can say, about the real film. It deserves a another look.
Review of Pearl Harbor II: Pearlmageddon
Pearl Harbor II: Pearlmageddon kinda bomb, but it did leave a short impact on me.
19 December 2014
Warning: Spoilers