Matt Tanks

C'mon guys...it's good fun. It's Mila, it's Bautista and it's a %$#@-tonne of sepiatone overlays. You know what you've signed up for and this delivers it....monsters and monster hunters with over the top cgi covering a thinly veiled commentary in the gradual destruction of society in a literal and figurative sense (this time it's the church's fault, not a corporation..wink wink...umbrella)...again, with more sepiatone. Pay special attention to beauty of the actors trying to simulate the movement of horseback riding on the close-ups...it may be my favourite part of the movie, along with the hero and heroines plan of escaping a train by sauntering slowly along the same tracks that the train is using. Joyous. Good fun.

If you're asking for a review on film making mastery, then you're looking at closer to 1 star, BUT if you're talking an experience... get along to a theatre where you're with a couple hundred others and you hear the whole theatre erupt into rapturous applause every other minute...where you have those couple hundred people yelling out the lines as they happen even though it's only 2 days after release day...where kids, teens and adults are packed in but everyone has an upbeat energy... where the movie ends and 50 or so kids stay and charge to the front of the cinema to run and dance and play together...I have not had an experience close to this since I was a kid and Independence Day came out. Don't watch this as a movie and review it... you'll probably hate it, it's silly, gaudy, cliché, simple, overt, patchy and I'm pretty sure if Jack Black did his little tickly-fingers move one more time HR would need to be called... watch it in a theatre full of screaming kids and you'll see why it needs to be rated higher. As a father of 3 kids 10 and under, this was the most fun movie experience you can have. Go see it while you can.