Plum Crazy

I mean, really. The supposedly very smart girl who paid enough attention in health class to learn that you can die if your blood rushes back to your heart too quickly didn't pay enough attention to learn that an untreated gash on your leg can get infected and turn septic? I never paid that much attention in health class, and I knew that. I'd be willing to bet good money that the main building of the New York Public Library has got at least a first aid kit.

Then there's the big freaking ship parked right outside the library, but not one person thinks - Hey, we can go over there and get food from the galley! No, that only occurs to someone once they're practically starving and only went to the ship to get medicine for the girl with the septic cut. Speaking of which I'm fascinated how a huge ship like that one could have made it up Fifth Avenue all the way to 40th Street. There wasn't enough water to make that journey feasible. And if there were, then the Public Library would have been many, many, many feet under water. So they'd have all drowned. But this is one of the annoying things about being very familiar with the primary locale of a movie - you know these things.

If you can ignore the heavy political message and annoying lack of character development in light of that message, you might enjoy the film. It's got great special effects. And if you're going to see it, you should see it on a big screen. If you think you can't ignore that stuff, go see Shrek 2 instead.