Title: Good effects/picture, bizarre script
Product review: I must confess I didn't read the 500+ reviews here, but of those I read, many saw the blithely fascistic tone of the film as being "ironic," "subversive," etc. I must have missed something. At first I assumed that the cheerful retro-50s propaganda commercial that begins this film was intended as sarcasm. However, everything that occurs in the film supports the goofy value system portrayed, and nothing contradicts it, except for the one kid's parents, who are killed - apparently as a result of their "unpatriotic" attitude.If there's anything subtle about this film, it's buried under so much gore and jingoistic blather that it's completely unrecognizable. What's left is an ugly film that does nothing to indicate there's anything wrong with the world view that Heinlein's book apparently satirized. I would never let an impressionable child see this sickening film.
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