![]() Six years after the release of its triumphant blockbuster Pearl Harbor, Disney today gave its first screening of the latest 'wartime story to end all wartime stories'.Īccording to their chief media publicist, Harvey Glick, Disney's movie dwarfs any film ever made in terms of cost, special effects, and appeal to American patriotic fervor. The six-hour epic (making it the longest feature presentation film ever made) tells how the US won the greatest war in history.ĭubyas Two begins where Pearl Harbor ended with America defeating the Japanese after their 1941 sneak attack on Hawaii. The film was budgeted for $750 million but the final cost may well exceed $1 billion because it is a virtual cornucopia of astonishing special effects and dazzling cinematic clichés, many of which have never been seen before.ĭubyas continues with the destruction of the Nazis on the Continent of Europe in 1945 by American troops. Disney is confident that the film over the course of its run will rake in several billion dollars, many times its cost. Let me be up front with my claim that this is the best war story ever put into a digitized format. Some critics have expressed reservations about another retelling of history from a totally biased American perspective and that it ignores the contributions of other nations in defeating the Japanese, German and Italian war machines. Others blather on about trivializing the greatest event in the twentieth century by ignoring important events and placing historical figures in events that never happened. Well, I have a one finger salute for these carping scheiss-disturbers. Well, up yours, Jack! Churchill was a limey who went crawling to Roosevelt for help when the going got tough! Some statesman! One dumbass critic even complained that Winston Churchill, who he claims was the greatest statesman to come out of that conflict is not even mentioned. I go to movies to be entertained and if the central characters are always Americans it doesn't bother me. I'm happy with a tender love story that is played out against the background of a world in turmoil and needing America to jump in and fix it. I won't sit through any movie that claims other nations played any significant role in defeating the Nazis and Japan. Certainly not any low-budget Canadian or limp-wristed Brit movie, even if it includes all the popcorn I can eat. And I'll bet my flat Yankee ass neither will anybody else. If I want to watch a documentary I'll turn on the History Channel. So what if maybe some other countries played a minor role in World War II - big deal! As long as the film remain true to the final outcome, which is the Yanks defeating the Nazis, that's all that counts. I usually rate top at four stars maximum, but this one is so great, I'm giving it FIVE stars.īy Scott Upchuk, film, food, and fashion editor of the Washington Post If other countries want to make war movies about how they helped America do it, nobody's stopping them. ![]() The script of this marvelous movie is the work of Randall Wallace, who did such a great job with Pearl Harbor. We scribblers at the Post cannot be bought! I am thrilled that I and other top critics, including Roger Ebert, were allowed to view the just completed movie in a special pre-release screening (we were flown to Hollywood in a Disney jet but that had no bearing on my reaction to the movie. ![]() In Dubyas Two the two Americans heroes of Pearl Harbor play key roles in saving the world from Nazi domination. Because of time limitations and to keep the plot manageable, certain minor episodes of the war - The Battle of Britain, The Eastern Front, Battle of the Atlantic, Italian Campaign, D-Day Landings, etc., - are mostly ignored (Thank God, I said to myself - the plot entanglements of the protagonists themselves were hard enough to follow!)īen Affleck and newcomer Gomer Hammerflueger play the two Americans (Josh Hartnett who played Ben's rival in Pearl was having his jaw re-set for an upcoming movie about how the new American nation won the war of 1812 and was unavailable for the part).
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