Battleship

Theatrical Release Date: 2012 05 18 (USA)

UPC: 025192124471

Studio: Universal Studios

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Violence, Profanity]

Summary: Milton Bradley's enduringly popular strategic board game makes the leap to the big screen in Hancock director Peter Berg's epic sci-fi adventure pitting an international naval fleet against an army of invading aliens. When the two forces find themselves evenly matched, each must rely on strategy and cunning in order to emerge the victor. Taylor Kitsch and Alexander Skarsgard head-up a cast also featuring Liam Neeson, Rihanna, Brooklyn Decker, and Tadanobu Asano. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Category: Science Fiction

Features: Alternate ending previsualization
The visual effects of Battleship: see how the team at Industrial Light & Magic pushes the boundaries of visual effects to bring the aliens to life
All access with director Peter Berg
USS Missouri VIP tour: come aboard the historic "Mighty Mo" for an exclusive tour with director Peter Berg and actual navy veterans
Commander Pete: watch as director Peter Berg energizes the cast and crew
Preparing for battle
All hands on deck: the cast
Engage in battle: shooting at sea all aboard the fleet

Battleship

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 08/28/2012

Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 2.40:1

Audio: DHMA null, DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo, DTS Digital Theater Systems

Runtime: 132 Minutes

Sides: 2

Number of Discs: 2

Language(s) English,French,Spanish

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 --
1. Scene 1 [9:23]
2. Scene 2 [5:40]
3. Scene 3 [8:03]
4. Scene 4 [6:35]
5. Scene 5 [6:42]
6. Scene 6 [5:34]
7. Scene 7 [7:07]
8. Scene 8 [6:58]
9. Scene 9 [3:53]
10. Scene 10 [9:47]
11. Scene 11 [5:35]
12. Scene 12 [5:30]
13. Scene 13 [8:49]
14. Scene 14 [7:26]
15. Scene 15 [6:17]
16. Scene 16 [6:05]
17. Scene 17 [6:41]
18. Scene 18 [4:20]
19. Scene 19 [8:52]
20. Scene 20 [1:48]

Alaina O'Connor

Battleship is a chaotic summer action flick, complete with over-the-top sequences pitting hostile aliens against a handful of U.S. Navy ships in the Pacific Ocean, but unlike its movie-franchise-based-on-Hasbro-toys predecessor Transformers, the film boasts much more likeable characters and a more tightly written script. Director Peter Berg, along with screenwriters Jon and Erich Hoeber, takes the simplicity of the game and to this formula adds sinister aliens whose advanced technology makes them nearly unbeatable. The invaders from outer space even use vaguely peg-like weapons, similar to the game, and one sequence features the main characters using a grid system in order to target alien ships they can't see on radar. Berg also bombards the audience with an earsplitting rock soundtrack and pummels viewers into submission with this visual and aural assault, but for the most part the film is just plain silly in a good way. Battleship opens with a team of scientists beaming a welcome message to the residents of Planet G, an Earth-like planet in a "Goldilocks" solar system that is perfect for sustaining life. Next, we meet our hero Alex Hopper (Taylor Kitsch), a directionless, irresponsible bad boy ruled by passion and reckless emotion. So much so, in fact, that he breaks into a convenience store to steal a burrito for a blonde beauty named Sam, played by Brooklyn Decker. Fed up with Alex's antics, his brother (Alexander Skarsgard) forces him to enlist in the Navy to learn some good old-fashioned discipline. A few years later, Alex is the weapons officer on a naval destroyer participating in an international war game off the coast of Hawaii, but he's got other things on his mind, namely asking Sam's father, Admiral Shane (Liam Neeson), for his daughter's hand in marriage. Things quickly change, however, when a fleet of aliens from Planet G arrive on Earth and lay waste to downtown Hong Kong. The extraterrestrials then turn their attention to the Pacific, where they throw up an impenetrable energy dome and the game for world domination begins. It's a familiar trope seen in almost every big-budget alien-invasion summer blockbuster -- they always come from a distant planet with their megaships and their force fields and their crazy weapons. There's massive property damage and death bringing the residents of Earth to the brink of extinction, but then the hero (in this case, Taylor Kitsch's character) exploits a tiny little glitch in the alien technology and saves the world. Berg makes far better use of Kitsch in this film than director Andrew Stanton did in the recently released John Carter, perhaps due to their working relationship from the critically acclaimed television show Friday Night Lights (Kitsch was one of the show's stars, while Berg was an executive producer). There's an unapologetically patriotic undertone as well, demonstrated most prominently in the eleventh-hour shout-outs to the old salts who served aboard the USS Missouri and a sequence involving wounded Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. But these moments seem jammed into an already packed movie, and they leave it unclear whether Berg intended to make an action or war film. Still, Battleship holds up nicely, and despite the occasional cheesy line here or there, there's something just plain fun about this film with its massive explosions and unrelenting battle sequences. But hey, isn't that what you want from your summer blockbuster anyway? And for those of you hoping to hear the infamous line, "You sunk my battleship!" Berg thankfully kept that out. ~ Alaina O'Connor, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Peter Berg  Director 
Peter Berg  Producer 
Duncan Henderson  Producer 
Erich Hoeber  Screenwriter 
Scott Stuber  Producer 
Jon Hoeber  Screenwriter 
Steve Jablonsky  Composer (Music Score) 
Sarah Aubrey  Producer 
Jonathan Mone  Executive Producer 
Bennett Schneir  Producer 
Brian Goldner  Producer 
Braden Aftergood  Executive Producer 
Taylor Kitsch  Actor 
Alexander Skarsgård  Actor 
Rihanna  Actor 
Brooklyn Decker  Actor 
Tadanobu Asano  Actor 
Hamish Linklater  Actor 
Liam Neeson  Actor 
Peter MacNicol  Actor 
John Tui  Actor 
Jesse Plemons  Actor 
Gregory D. Gadson  Actor 
Jerry Ferrara  Actor 
Adam Godley  Actor 
Rico McClinton  Actor 
Joji Yoshida  Actor 
Louis Lombardi  Actor 
Norman Vincent McLafferty  Actor 
Stephen C. Bishop  Actor 
Dante Jimenez  Actor 
Daven Arce  Actor 
Ralph Richardson  Actor 
Biunca Love  Actor 
Michael Sherman  Actor 
Austin Naulity  Actor 
Patricia Brown  Actor 
Gregory Harvey  Actor 
James Rawlings  Actor 
Andrew Serpas  Actor 
Damien Parker  Actor 
Carson Aune  Actor 
Doug Penty  Actor 
Josh Pence  Actor 
Jason Henderson  Actor 
Brint Terrell  Actor 
Brad Faucheux  Actor 
Dustin J. Reno  Actor 
John Schmotzer  Actor 
Peter Berg  Actor 
Jonathon Groves  Actor 
Lloyd Pitts  Actor 
Ryan Tinio  Actor 
Allie Sillah  Actor 
John Santiago  Actor 
Kiley Margeson  Actor 
Jeffrey Johns  Actor 
Esther Solomon  Actor 
Kevin Garlington  Actor 
Anthony Czumalowski  Actor 
James Hadde  Actor 
Pat Lancaster  Actor 
Jordan Kirkwood  Actor 
Jane Dubiel  Actor 
John Weaver  Actor 
Mark Lindquist  Actor 
Phil Neilson  Actor 
Dane Justman  Actor 
Dustin Watchman  Actor 
Drew Rausch  Actor 
Ryland Reamy  Actor 
Donald Willcutt  Actor 
Eli Miranda  Actor 
Joshua Demuth  Actor 
Thomas Grieser  Actor 
Chris Darling  Actor 
Tyrone Gregg  Actor 
Brian Hirono  Actor 
Yutaka Takeuchi  Actor 
Nobuharu Harada  Actor 
Masaomi Uchida  Actor 
Kyle Ken Shimabukuro  Actor 
Masashi Takekawa  Actor 
Hyoe Joe Takahashi  Actor 
Rick Hoffman  Actor 
Stephen Baldini  Actor 
Bill Stinchcomb  Actor 
Bruce Mandell  Actor 
Gary Grubbs  Actor 
David Jensen  Actor 
Mike Meldman  Actor 
Hunter Meldman  Actor 
George Arine  Actor 
Bill McMullen  Actor 
Joe Chrest  Actor 
Benjamin Lloyd  Actor 
Billy Slaughter  Actor 
Griff Furst  Actor 
Terri Battee  Actor 
Angelo Denova  Actor 
Colby Parker, Jr.  Actor 
Geoff Clayton  Actor 
David Kors  Actor 
Christopher McGahan  Actor 
Kerry Cahill  Actor 
Liz Wicker  Actor 
Michelle Arthur  Actor 
Natalia Castellanos  Actor 
Dan Cooke  Actor 
Leni Ito  Actor 
Dennis M. Keating  Actor 
Philip Trifilo  Actor 
Marissa Nordhelm  Actor 
Cora Yamagata  Actor 
Michael Vernon  Actor 
Tom McCurdy  Actor 
Ronald Chavez  Actor 
William Powers  Actor 
Garrett Lynch  Actor 
Frank J. Doyle  Actor 
Frank Cassavetes  Actor 
Evan Bernard  Actor 
Leonard Rogers  Actor 
Robert Hotalen  Actor 
Legrand Strickland  Actor 
Donald C. Dailey  Actor 
Wallace Mackensen  Actor 
Robin Atkin Downes  Actor 
Rami Malek  Actor 
James Ward  Actor 
Jackie Johnson  Actor 
Clarence Greenwood  Actor 
Ray Mabus  Actor 
Jason Wilken  Actor 
William I. Carr  Actor 
Hiram Fong  Actor 
John Bell  Actor 
William Long, Jr.  Actor 
George O'Hanlon  Actor 
Adrian Bellani  Actor 
Larry Wegger  Actor 
Wesley Phelps  Actor 
James Rish  Actor 
Kevin Kearns  Actor 
Edward Drew  Actor 
Dallas Kane Hewitt  Actor 
Marcus Lyle Brown  Actor 
Dylan Gillooly  Actor 
Kyle Clements  Actor 
John Culkin  Actor 
Adam Sibley  Actor 
Conor McCarry  Actor 
Zach Selwyn  Actor 

Country: USA