300詞的英文電影簡介

㈠ 急求300英文字馬克吐溫「百萬英鎊」電影的簡介(含作者、情節簡介及評論)

馬克吐溫著的短篇小說《百萬英鎊》是一部很好的作品。文章對「金錢就是一切」「金錢是萬能的」的想法進行了諷刺，揭穿了資本主義社會的丑惡面容。 《百萬英鎊》是講一個貧窮、誠實的人，也就是這個故事的主人公收到了一對兄弟的信，信裡面送給了他一百萬英鎊。原來這對兄弟打了一個賭，賭如果一個貧窮、誠實的人收到天上掉下的一百萬英鎊，他會有怎樣的結果？哥哥認為他會餓死，因為他無法證明這些錢是他自己的，會受到別人的懷疑，連銀行都不會讓他存錢。弟弟則認為他會過得很好，於是他們兄弟倆將一百萬英鎊的支票借給了這個貧窮的人，並出國呆了三十天。沒想到在這段時間內，人們對這位突然暴富的罕見富翁，竟拚命地拉攏他，從免費吃飯，買衣服，到免費住宿，一個個像乞丐一樣討好他，並不斷提高他的社會地位，一直到了除王室外最高的公爵之上！不光如此，他還得到了一位好妻子和三萬英鎊的銀行利息，最後還從兩兄弟那兒得到了一份很好的工作。過著非常非常幸福的生活。 看到這兒，我很羨慕這位如此「幸運」的主人公，但同時我又想：人們之所以討好他，不就是因為當時人們太看重金錢了嗎？拜金主義是可恥的，不勞而獲更不應該！金錢不是萬能的，世界上還有許多比金錢更重要的東西……

㈡ 求電影直到永遠的英語介紹，300字左右

Braveheart is a 1995 epic historical drama film directed by and starring Mel Gibson.Gibson portrays William Wallace,a 13th-century Scottish warrior who led the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England.The story was written for the screen and then as a novel by Randall Wallace.
The film won five Academy Awards at the 68th Academy Awards,including the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director,and was nominated for an additional five.

㈢ 電影英文介紹

功夫熊貓英語簡介兩篇
This original story is one of the best since Shrek. And the meaning behind the story may be even better! The story is about Po, an overweight panda who is the son of a noodle maker, who dreams of Po following in his footsteps. But Po longs to be a ninja fighter. Po is as you know is a panda bear and the film's unlikely hero: as the bigger than life and completely lovable bear voiced by the comic genius Jack Black. Po is a Sweet but clumsy, bear who hears the news the ancient and long awaited dragon warrior will be named, so he runs (as much as he can) to hear who will be named at the celebration. Without giving too much away, when an "accident" seems to name Po as the dragon warrior (much to the horror of Master Shifu (voiced perfectly by Dustin Hoffman) and the disappointment of Furious Five: Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Viper (Lucy Liu), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Crane (David Cross) and Monkey (Jackie Chan). Shifu must find a way to train him. One hilarious moment after another continues until Shifu recognizes Po's true driving force. This is just in time as the villain Tai Lung (Ian McShane), a snow leopard has returned as he believe is the true Dragon Warrior.

Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American animated comedy blockbuster. It was directed by John Stevenson and Mark Osborne and proced by Melissa Cobb and stars Jack Black as Po. The film was proced by DreamWorks Animation's studio in Glendale, California and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film stars the voice of Jack Black as the panda, Po, along with the voices of Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Ian McShane, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogen, David Cross, Randall Duk Kim, James Hong and Jackie Chan. Set in ancient China, the plot revolves around a bumbling panda who aspires to be a kung fu master. After a much-feared warrior is prophesied to escape from prison, Po is foretold to be the Dragon Warrior, much to his shock and surprise, as well as the chagrin of the resident kung fu warriors.Transformers is a 2007 live-action film adaptation of the Transformers franchise, directed by Michael Bay and written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. It stars Shia LaBeouf as Sam Witwicky, a teenager involved in a war between the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, two factions of alien robots who can disguise themselves by transforming into everyday machinery. The Decepticons desire control of the All Spark, the object that created their robotic race, with the intention of using it to build an army by giving life to the machines of Earth. Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Jon Voight and John Turturro also star, while Peter Cullen and Hugo Weaving provide the voices of Optimus Prime and Megatron respectively.

㈣ 求6篇電影的英文簡介！

希望幫到你，網採納

《冰雪奇緣》
FROZEN is a 2013 3D computer animation USA film.The film by Walt Disney Animation Studios,and released by Walt Disney Studios film company.The film by Chris Barker and directed by Jennifer Lee, and by Christine Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Grove and other voice."Frozen" story of Andersen fairy tale" the snow queen "adaptation based on the film tells the story of sister Aisha, in succession to the throne, her magic out of the frozen earth. In order to break the curse Aisha frozen, optimistic fearless sister Anna step forward bravely, and adventurous mountaineer Christof and his partner team of reindeer, launched a magic journey to emerge in an endless stream, The path winds along mountain ridges story.The film in March 3, 2014 (Beijing time) won the eighty-sixth Oscar Award for Best Animated Feature Film Award and the award for best original song.

《魔法奇緣》

After receiving the healing powers from a magical flower, the baby Princess Rapunzel is kidnapped from the palace in the middle of the night by Mother Gothel. Mother Gothel knows that the flower's magical powers are now growing within the golden hair of Rapunzel, and to stay young, she must lock Rapunzel in her hidden tower. Rapunzel is now a teenager and her hair has grown to a length of 70-feet. The beautiful Rapunzel has been in the tower her entire life, and she is curious of the outside world. One day, the bandit Flynn Ryder scales the tower and is taken captive by Rapunzel. Rapunzel strikes a deal with the charming thief to act as her guide to travel to the place where the floating lights come from that she has seen every year on her birthday. Rapunzel is about to have the most exciting and magnificent journey of her life.

《神偷奶爸》

The plot synopsis: film by universal proct of 3 D animation is about: in a white fence and rose bushes around residential suburb, is located a house inanimate black house. Hidden in here a unknown big secret, the hero case lu (Gru) are planning a an unprecedented plan--he intended to put the moon to steal it. Case lu bent on all evil things. He not only equipped with Arsenal, freezing ray shrink ray, and also has used to fight of the aviation transportation, as long as anyone who have hindered his plan, he will destroy ?

《復活節兔子》

The Easter Bunny is a mythical character depicted as a rabbit. In legend, the creature brings baskets filled with colored eggs, candy and toys to the homes of children on the night before Easter. The Easter Bunny will either put the baskets in a designated place or hide them somewhere in the house for the children to find when they wake up in the morning.

《料理鼠王》

Remy, a provincial rat with a wonderful sense of smell, hates garbage and risks death to enter a human kitchen where he discovers real food and the cooking of five-star chef, Anton Gusteau, author of "Anyone Can Cook." On the day Remy learns his hero has died, he is evicted and ends up alone in Paris. By luck, he discovers Gasteau's restaurant, down to three stars and run by a frozen-food-hawking chef. As Remy enters, so does Linguini, a clumsy youth hired as a garbage boy. To save the soup that Linguini accidentally fouls, Remy throws in some ingredients; the soup is a success and Linguini's career as a chef is born. Can Remy find a way to maintain the fiction and use his gift? Written by {[email protected]}

《天才眼鏡狗》

glasses protagonist Mr. Peabody be equal to anything, his hand has a Harvard Ph.D., is one has won aNobel awards for scientists, is the head of state adviser. He developed the new technology in the field of nonconventional energy, he was still idle period invented thefist, bastard, backward somersault, and high streets and back lanes unknown Zumba dance. However, Peabody's ambition is not in this, his hand adhering to the "first after the family business" purposes adopted the abandonedchild Sherman (Scherman); on the other hand, the invention of the world's only a time machine, with his son Sherman through time and space around the universe intothe ultimate dream of Peabody. Time machine for humansis a double-edged sword, no one have no predecessorsafter the invention once released will attract worldwide attention. Evil people want to own it, only through his own gratification; and kind like Peabody, only to let the son Sherman to open up horizons, behind the affection between father and son sad.

㈤ 英文電影簡介(120~150詞,帶翻譯及電影名)

Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American animated
comedy blockbuster. It was directed by John Stevenson and Mark Osborne and
proced by Melissa Cobb and star Jack Black as Po.
The film was proced by DreamWorks Animation's studio inGlendale,Californiaand distributed by Paramount Pictures. Set in ancientChina, the plot revolves around a bumbling pandaPo, who aspires to be a kung fu master.

《功夫熊貓》是一部2008年美國動畫片大片。它由、約翰·斯蒂文森和馬克·奧斯本導演，梅麗莎·科伯製片，明星傑克·布萊克飾演阿寶（即熊貓）。這部電影是由加利福尼亞的格倫代爾夢工廠動畫工作室製作，派拉蒙電影公司發行。情節描述了中國古代一個笨手笨腳的熊貓阿寶渴望成為功夫大師（的事跡）。

㈥ 求5篇英文電影簡介（簡介也是英文的最好）

The Crying Game 又譯：亂世浮生 This highly original film put screenwriter-director Neil Jordan on the international map. The story begins at a carnival in Ireland with British soldier Jody (Forest Whitaker) kidnapped by IRA terrorists Jude (Miranda Richardson) and Fergus (Stephen Rea). Fergus is assigned to guard Jody, and they become friends. After the kidnapping goes horribly wrong, Fergus escapes to London to track down Jody's girlfriend, Dil (Jaye Davidson), to fulfill a promise to Jody and ends up falling in love with her. The only problem--well, it's not the only problem--is Jude has also come to London with news that the IRA is after Fergus and has a dangerous new mission in mind.
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㈦ 英文電影簡介

特洛伊電影英文簡介
這是內容簡介.
It is the year 1250 B.C. ring the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles, and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer's "The Iliad."
Trojan War

The Trojan War was a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), by the armies of the Achaeans, after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta. The war is among the most important events in Greek mythology and was narrated in many works of Greek literature, of which the two most famous are the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer. The Iliad relates a part of the last year of the siege of Troy, and the Odyssey describes the journey home of Odysseus, one of the Achaean leaders. Other parts of the story were narrated in a cycle of epic poems, which has only survived in fragments. Episodes from the war provided material for Greek tragedy and other works of Greek literature, and Roman poets like Virgil and Ovid.

The war sprang from a quarrel between the goddesses Athena, Hera and Aphrodite, after the goddess Eris ("Strife") gave them a golden apple with the inscription "to the fairest" (sometimes known as the apple of Discord). The goddesses went to Paris, who judged that Aphrodite, as the "fairest", should receive the apple. In exchange, Aphrodite made Helen, the most beautiful of all women, fall in love with Paris, who took her to Troy. Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and the brother of Helen's husband Menelaus, led an expedition of Achaean troops to Troy and besieged the city for ten years. After the deaths of many heroes, including the Achaeans Achilles and Aias, or Ajax, and the Trojans Hector and Paris, the city fell to the ruse of the Trojan Horse. The Achaeans mercilessly slaughtered the Trojans and desecrated the temples, thus earning the gods' wrath. Few of the Achaeans returned to their homes and many founded colonies in distant shores. The Romans later traced their origin to Aeneas, one of the Trojans, who was said to have led the surviving Trojans to Italy.

Ancient Greeks believed that the Trojan War was a historical event. They believed that this war took place in the 13th or 12th century BC, and that Troy was located in the vicinity of the Dardanelles in what is now north-western Turkey. By modern times both the war and the city were widely believed to be non-historical. In 1870, however, the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann excavated a site in this area which he believed to be the site of Troy, and at least some archaeologists agree. There remains no certain evidence that Homer's Troy ever existed, still less that any of the events of the Trojan War cycle ever took place. Many scholars would agree that there is a historical core to the tale, though this may simply mean that the Homeric stories are a fusion of various stories of sieges and expeditions by the Greeks of the Bronze Age or Mycenean period. Those who think that the stories of the Trojan War derive from a specific historical conflict usually date it to between 1300 BC and 1200 BC, usually preferring the dates given by Eratosthenes (1194 BC – 1184 BC) which roughly corresponds with the burning of Troy VIIa.

太坦尼克號的英文簡介
Titanic directed by James Cameron presents a fictional love story on the historical setting of the Titanic. The plot is simple, noncomplicated, or not for those who love plots that twist and turn and keep you in suspense. The end of the movie can be figured out within minutes of the start of the film, but the love story is an interesting one, however. Kate Winslett is wonderful as Rose, an aristocratic young lady betrothed by Cal (Billy Zane). Early on the voyage Rose meets Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio), a lower class artist on his way to America after winning his ticket aboard Titanic in a poker game. If he wants something, he goes and gets it unlike the upper class who are so concerned with their social worries. The two fall in love and the audience sees the sinking of the Titanic primarily through their eyes.

The movie begins in modern times with the exploration of the wreck by a group searching for treasures, that sunk with the Titanic, which has recently occurred. One of the survivors of the Titanic, Rose DeWitt Bukater, who had heard of the exploration of the wreck on television and is flown to the boat where the search is being led from to tell of what she remembers to help the search. She gets to telling her memory of the one and only voyage of the Titanic. With this, the scene shifts to Southhampton, Ireland where the Titanic set sail from on April 10, 1912 as all the passengers are boarding. After another stop on the Irish coast Titanic went out to see on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic bound for New York. Historically the first few days of the voyage went by uneventful, but the fictional plot of the story is developed ring this time as Rose sees the hopeless entrapement of an engagement that she is in to the wealthy Cal Hockley and falls in love with third class passenger, Jack Dawson. Captain Smith alledgedly as shown in the movie was urged by the White Star Line Director to increase the speed of the ship so they would make the newspaper headlines and receive extra publicity by arriving in New York on Thursday night and not on Friday morning as planned. Smith then ordered the fateful decision going against his thirty-two years of experience to stretch the Titanic's legs out to full speed. The Titanic had reports that the waters in the Atlantic they were sailing in were full of icebergs, but they ignored these warnings and proceeded at full speed as shown in the movie. On April 15, 1912 at 11:39, an iceberg was sighted. They attempted to shut off the engines and turn the ship out of the path of the iceberg but there was not enough time and the ship hit the iceberg on the starboard side as depicted in the film. The portrayal of the many small holes in the side of the ship and not one large gash along the side is accurate. The crew of Titanic sent out distress calls and set off distress rockets as shown until 2:18 when the lights finally failed. The lights of the California were spotted six miles away but they failed to realize what was going on and did not respond to Titanic's many pleas for help. The California had tried earlier in the day to warn Titanic of the severe ice that had caused them to stop their trip but Titanic had brushed them off causing the California to turn off its radio and leave the Titanic on its own. The first class women and children were the first as depicted to be put into the twenty lifeboats that were on the ship. Overwhelmingly the third class passengers suffered the most amount of deaths of any class and the crew was hit hard in this tragedy too. The word of White Star Line employees and first class passengers was believed over that of second and third class passengers when authorities were trying to gain information of the sinking. Also, the metal that was used to build the Titanic has been found in recent years under conditions of severe cold, which were experienced the night Titanic sank to be extremely brittle. Overall, the basic plot is very accurate in its portayal of the events and the times at which these events took place on the Titanic.

㈧ 英文影片的英文簡介

1、《英國病人》

Directed by Anthony mingra, the English patient is adapted from the novel of the same name by Michael ondaj.

The film is co starred by Ralph Fiennes, Christine Scott Thomas and Juliet Binoche. The film was released in the United States on November 6, 1996.

The movie takes the war and desert as the background, decing a love tragedy across time and space.

During World War II, a British plane was shot down by the German army while flying over the Sahara desert.

The pilot on the plane was completely burned on the face. The local people rescued him and sent him to the Allied field hospital.

Because of the injury, the pilot lost his memory and could not remember who he was, so he could only be called "English Patient".

《英國病人》由安東尼·明格拉執導，是根據作家邁克爾·翁達傑的同名小說改編而成。

該片由拉爾夫·費因斯、克里斯汀·斯科特·托馬斯、朱麗葉·比諾什等聯袂主演。影片於1996年11月6日在美國上映 。

電影以戰爭和沙漠為背景，演繹一場跨越時空的愛情悲劇。

二戰期間，一架英國飛機在飛越撒哈拉沙漠時被德軍擊落，飛機上的機師面部被全部燒傷，當地人將他救活後送往了盟軍戰地醫院。

由於受傷這個機師喪失了記憶，不能想起自己是誰，因此只能被叫做「英國病人」。

影片講述由萊昂納多·迪卡普里奧扮演的造夢師，帶領約瑟夫·高登-萊維特、艾倫·佩吉扮演的特工團隊，進入他人夢境，從他人的潛意識中盜取機密，並重塑他人夢境的故事。

㈨ 用英文介紹一部電影！

二次世界大戰期間的義大利，由羅伯托·貝里尼(Roberto Benigni)飾演的小人物——基多，來到圖斯坎尼小鎮追求他的理想與愛情，全然不顧法西斯主義之下的政府管制，在這里他與小學老師阿桃拉墜入情網。

幾年後，他們擁有了一個小男孩——約書亞，而基多也開了一間書店。但好景不長，在法西斯主義政府統治下，一家人失散，被關入集中營，爸爸和兒子關在一起，媽媽則被關在另外一處，在殘酷無比的集中營里，爸爸以玩游戲的方式讓兒子仍保有童年的快樂與天真。最後，爸爸犧牲了自己，死於納粹的槍下，而兒子回到媽媽身邊。

《美麗人生》最引人入勝之處，在於它以詼諧的方式看待無情的戰爭。在該片里，我們見識到戰爭的可怕，看見了人們的無助，卻也看到了有人以幽默的態度自處。

二.《幸福終點站》
(The Terminal)

故事發生在20世紀80年代末，維克多(湯姆·漢克斯飾) 是一個斯洛維尼亞人，為了逃避祖國的戰亂，他決定移民美國，帶著簡單的行李買了飛往美國的機票。

當他在終點站紐約的肯尼迪機場下機准備出機場時，卻被攔了下來。原來，他的祖國發生了政變，而且還成為了美國的敵對國！維克多的護照和身份證件，以及移民文件全都失去了效用，他被扣在了機場。瞬時間，維克多成了一個沒國沒家的孤立的人，他成為國際政治變化的犧牲品。被扣在機場期間，維克多隻有兩個選擇：要麼返回祖國，可是他的國家政變後，已經不再承認辦理了移民手續的他是國民；要麼拿到有效的證件，進入移民的美國，但他的證件已經失效而且再也無法補回了。站在這個不屬於自己的國家，看著來來往往陌生的人群，維克多不禁感到迷茫。無奈之下，他只能留在機場睡在大廳的椅子上，在衛生間里洗澡，靠為路過的乘客服務生活。他現在擁有的只有自己不自由的身體，以及一個小皮箱，裡面裝著換洗的衣服、一把剃須刀和已經作廢的身份證明。

一次偶然的機會，維克多認識了一名美麗的空姐艾米麗婭(凱瑟琳·澤塔·瓊斯飾)。艾米麗婭開始很同情維克多的遭遇，幫他介紹些小工作和與機場交涉關系，慢慢地她愛上了這個細膩而憨厚的男人。一場「塞翁失馬」的際遇就這樣上演了。維克多在這個機場邂逅了美國的一切，也邂逅了屬於他的幸福。

三.《阿甘正傳》
(Forrest Gump)

阿甘(湯姆·漢克斯飾)於二戰結束後不久出生在美國南方阿拉巴馬州一個閉塞的小鎮，他先天弱智，智商只有75，然而他的媽媽是一個性格堅強的女性，她常常鼓勵阿甘「傻人有傻福」，要他自強不息。阿甘像普通孩子一樣上學，並且認識了一生的朋友和至愛珍妮(羅賓·萊特·潘飾)，在珍妮和媽媽的愛護下，阿甘憑著上帝賜予的「飛毛腿」開始了一生不停的奔跑。

㈩ 英文電影簡介（英語）

第五元素的 其他的再等會
Every five thousand years, a door opens between the dimensions. In one dimension lies the universe and all of its multitude of varied life forms. In another exists an element made not of earth, air, fire or water, but of anti-energy, anti-life. This "thing," this darkness, waits patiently at the threshold of the universe for an opportunity to extinguish all life and all light.

Every five thousand years, the universe needs a hero, and in New York City of the 23rd Century, a good hero is hard to find.

One of today's most provocative and acclaimed filmmakers, director Luc Besson's works have captured the imaginations of filmgoers worldwide. His visually innovative style has marked the critically-acclaimed thriller The Professional, the exotic undersea adventure The Big Blue, the new wave thriller Subway and the seminal action film La Femme Nikita, the first major French blockbuster. Now, Besson teams with Bruce Willis, one of the most dynamic and successful actors of his generation, to take the science fiction film in a new and exciting direction.

Columbia Pictures presents The Fifth Element, a timeless story about love and survival, heroes and villains, good and evil, set in a strangely familiar yet intoxicatingly different 23rd Century.
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The title of The Fifth Element refers to the four elements of alchemic Greek tradition -earth, air, fire, and water. Four elements gathered together to create the fifth one: life. Besson conceived of this energy -- the energy used to talk, to engage in sports, even to think -- as an actual, living thing that never disappears, but spreads throughout the universe and beyond.

Though the acclaimed writer/director conceived of the story while still a teenager, he was unaware that the concept of a fifth element -- known in Moorish traditions as "Akasha" -- is deeply rooted in ancient mythology. Besson remembers: "When my father came across Plato's writings on the subject, he came to me with the book and said, 'Do you know that your movie is a remake?' I read it, and was amazed to see the similarities between what Plato had written and what I had put into the script."

In The Fifth Element, Besson posits the question: what if an opposite form of life existed in another dimension -- one not made up of life-energy, but a dark, cancerous embodiment of all that is evil? "The energy of life, and this other, evil life-form, are opposites, like fire and ice," Besson explains, "and the more of this life-energy we create, the more it irritates and provokes this other."

In the 23rd century of The Fiffh Element, humanity has wandered out among the stars, spreading this life-energy, and further agitating the dark being. "It feels as if we are asphyxiating it," Besson notes. "It is dying because of us. It wants to fight back, and extinguish every source of energy or light --animal, vegetable, human. But it has its own limitations: it is isolated in another dimension."

The dark being's time to strike back occurs only once every 5,000 years when a doorway between the parallel dimensions briefly opens. "At the very beginning of the movie," says Besson, "we show that a way was once found to fight this entity, but the years have passed, and the way is forgotten. When our story begins, he is back, and no one knows how to defeat him."

The setting in which this heroic quest drama unfolds is among the most fully-realized fantasy worlds ever committed to film, and certainly one of the most unique. "We looked at all of human history," says Besson, "in order to come up with what we think is a very possible scenario for humanity in the year 2259, which is when the story takes place -- to be very precise, the story begins on March 18, 2259, at 2 a.m. What will the evolution be? How will people live, and think? And how will that be reflected in the world? It seemed very important to me to create for this story a world that people can accept as a real possibility for the future."

The result is a menagerie of weirdly exotic aliens: hulking, armored creatures with incongruously small heads called the Mondoshawan who, despite their imposing presence, work on the side of good; and huge, doglike Mangalores -- an army of mercenaries in the service of Zorg (Gary Oldman), the agent of all that is evil. The filmmakers also created imagery of a brave, new Earth that has never been seen before, along with an array of fantastically-imagined vistas on other planets and our own.
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In the future, the polar ice caps have melted, the world is covered by water, and everyone is left to fend for themselves as scavengers in a grim reality. This is Waterworld, and you'll be glad to know: even in this harsh realm, the women still shave their legs.

The most expensive movie ever made (the final word is $172 million), Waterworld will be a true monument in Kevin Costner's career. Unfortunately, this film isn't going to have quite the effect something like Dances with Wolves had. The bottom line is Waterworld is a marginal film: always extravagant, sometimes entertaining, often preachy and ll--a pure formula picture.

The story is time-tested and painfully simple. Costner plays The Mariner, a lone drifter on the watery surface of the earth who talks about his boat more than Forrest Gump. Jeanne Tripplehorn (The Firm) plays Helen, the love interest and the protector of Enola (Tina Majorino), a child with a strange tattoo which just may show the way to the mythical paradise of Dryland. The obligatory bad guy is The Deacon (Dennis Hopper), a slave driver/preacher with heavy artillery that acts a lot like, well, Dennis Hopper. I won't be the only one to say, "It's Mad Max on water."

Of course, The Deacon wants the kid. The Mariner wants to protect her and falls in love with Helen. So for 134 minutes, The Deacon chases the trio, turning up over and over and over, always out of nowhere (ever try to hide on the ocean?), and always being thwarted by The Mariner. Basically, it's Costner trying to be a superhero, swinging around on a lot of ropes and blowing up everything else.

This gets pretty old after awhile, especially since Costner looks more concerned with what's for dinner than what's on the screen. The other problems are innumerable: it's hard to figure out where the story is headed, the bad guys act like members of a bumbling Keystone Coast Guard, and a number of effects are obvious digital fakes. There are a few bright spots, but it ends up being a passable story with lackluster execution.

All the hype surrounding this film has really spoiled what there was to enjoy. If you see it, you'll probably be trying to figure out where all that money went, too (I only counted about $100 million). It's too bad; you'll need that brainpower just to figure out what's going on.