Review – Warbirds

I kinda liked Reign of the Gargoyles, the Sci Fi Channel’s previous attempt to combine World War Two aviation and CGI monsters. So perhaps I went into this movie with my expectations too high. To start, the action has been moved from Europe to the Pacific, which normally would have been fine with me. But then half the cast turns out to be a crew of sassy female aviators who happen to end up flying a secret mission to transport the A-bomb. The actors themselves were okay, but almost all their lines were cartoonish knock-offs of movies actually shot in the early 40s (except of course for the sexual innuendo that would never have gotten past the Hays Office). In any event, their plane is forced to crash-land on an island full of Japanese soldiers and pterodactyl-esque flying monsters, and things progress from there. Mildly amusing