英語電影梗概

❶ 電影英文簡介

The film briefly references Mayanism, the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, and the 2012 phenomenon in its portrayal of cataclysmic events unfolding in the year 2012. Due to solar flare bombardment the Earth's core begins heating up at an unprecedented rate. This results in a series of Doomsday event scenarios plunging the world into chaos, such as California falling into the Pacific Ocean, the eruption of the Yellowstone National Park caldera, shifting of the continents by crustal displacement, and Megatsunami impacts along every coast line on the Earth. The film centers around an ensemble cast of characters as they narrowly escape multiple catastrophes in an effort to reach ships in the Himalayas, along with scientists and governments of the world who are attempting to save as many lives as they can before the disasters ensue

❷ 求英語電影內容簡介

阿甘正傳，Forrest Gump who is unfortunately to be born with a lower IQ and the muscle problem, usually, people always think this kind of person can't be successful in doing anything. But, instead, this unlucky man has achieved lots of incredible success, he is a football star, a war hero, and later a millionaire!

勇敢的心，What kind of man would defy a king? Every man dies, not every man really lives. His passion captivated a woman. His courage inspired a nation. His heart defied a king. He who fought, fought for freedom

勇敢者的游戲，6-year-old Danny and 10-year-old Walter is a pair of naughty naughty two brothers, their father go out and snooze sister Lisa to stay at home. Danny naughty in their own house in the basement accidentally discovered a rectangular box, the box has a space travel game board with the inscription space pattern, the path through the purple color of the planet Zha Tula. Silly Danny pressed the button at random, the brothers were scared of the month half dead, flew to their homes as early as Cloud Nine. two brothers in an astronaut's help, from mutual accusations to rely on each other and help each other to jointly overcome the difficulties to the game in the end, ultimately they returned to the original world.

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❸ 用英語梗概電影（100字左右）

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❹ 求150字英文電影梗概

A Tale of Two Cities
The two cities in the story are Paris and London.
France was a great and rich city, but some parts were very poor. People there were very poor, hungry and sorrowful. The poorest part was St.Antoine, and Defarge was the owner of a wine shop in St.Antoine in Paris. One day, two strangers came, one was an English old man, and the other was a young lady. The man』s name was Lorry, and the lady』s name was Lucie. They were Dr.Manette』s friend and daughter. Dr.Manette had been put into the prison for 18 years. Now, he was in Defarge』s house. They went to Mr.Defarge』s house, and saw Dr.Manette, but he was nearly mad, he didn』t remember anything. Mr.Lorry, Lucie and Mr.Defarge wanted to take him to England at once. After a few days, they took Dr.Manette to England successfully. A year later, Dr.Manette became normal.
One day in 1780, they met Mr.Darnay and Mr.Carton in a trial in London. Soon they became good friends. Darney was saved by Carton. Then, Darnay married Lucie. The Marquis of Evrémonde, Darnay』s uncle, was a really bad guy. He didn』t want anyone to be healthy, especially Darnay. He had killed many people. Now, he was murdered by the poor. A few years later, many poor people charged at the Bastille. Defarge found a letter where Manette had been imprisoned.
Now the poor everywhere cheered that they killed rich nobles, and the servant of Darnay had been arrested. Darnay had to go to France to save his old servant』s life. But Darnay was soon arrested, so Carton and his friends had to go to save him. Darnay became free because Manette had been a prisoner of the Bastille. But Darnay wasn』t free for long, he was arrested again. He was accused by Manette』s letter, Mr. and Mrs. Defarge. He didn』t have any hopes. He had to be killed. But Carton had appeared before Darnay』s death. They changed each other』s clothes, Carton stayed in the Bastille instead of Darnay, and Darnay got out. Manette』s family returned to London, and Carton died for Darnay.
I like Carton very much, even though he stood for sorrow and misfortune, but he could die for his friend, this is real friendship. He』s really very kind. He wasn』t afraid of dying. He loved Lucie very much, but he didn』t let her know it, because he didn』t want her to be hurt. I think it is the most sincere love in the world. Defarge wasn』t a good person. He was very kind in the beginning, but he wanted his friend』s son-in-law to die, he was very cruel, I hate him. Carton had to die for his friend, because Defarge made him die. I think the characters written by Charles Dickens were diverse. I like this book very much.
長了點,雙城記.

❺ 需求2部英文電影的故事梗概

1、這個殺手不太冷：

故事發生在紐約大都會里，由讓·雷諾所飾演的職業殺手裡昂，受餐廳老闆委託殺人。當他是以殺手的身份出現時，冷靜而神秘，殺人手法令人熱血沸騰。但當他卸下殺手面具時，則又回歸成為平凡的市井小民，簡單到連基本身份證、銀行帳號都沒有，每天至少喝杯鮮奶，喜歡澆花及細心地擦拭心愛盆栽的樹葉，是個具有雙重身份角色扮演的人。而就在里昂所住的公寓內，有人暗渡陳倉的進行毒品交易，小女孩馬蒂達的父親是警方緝毒組的線人，因為貪心，私吞了部分毒品，遭到神經質警官斯坦報復，殺了全家人卻遺漏了小女孩馬蒂達。馬蒂達為了安全起見而躲進隔壁里昂家，她知道了里昂的殺手身份，為了保護自己及報滅門之仇，馬蒂達以堅定的口氣要求里昂訓練她成為一位真正的職業殺手……在此之後，斯坦亦全力搜尋馬蒂達以殺人滅口……里昂隻身闖入警局解救去復仇的馬蒂達，並殺死了警員。警方大驚慌之餘，下令圍剿公寓樓並全力搜捕里昂，雙方交戰之下引發了一場緊張刺激的終極追殺。 里昂撂倒一片警察，再次救出女孩並讓她通過通風管道逃生，並囑咐她他留給她的錢在餐廳老闆那裡。里昂化裝成警察想混出包圍圈，但被斯坦識破。最後一刻，里昂引爆了身上的炸彈……里昂已經40歲了，他是一名習慣獨來獨往的職業殺手，並且始終恪守著不殺女人和孩子的原則；而瑪蒂達卻只是一個普通的12歲的鄰家女孩。這樣的兩個人的生活軌跡本互不相干，原來也不會有任何交集，然而只因後者不幸慘遭滅門之禍才令二人意外的走到了一起，並且在他們之間還產生了一種奇妙的化學反應：愛情。

2、海上鋼琴師

一九零零年的第一天。郵輪弗吉尼亞號載著熙熙攘攘的歡呼人群在紐約港靠岸。在夢想的鼓動下黑壓壓的人流涌下船，迎接充滿可能性的美好未來。喧囂過後，船上除了船員所剩無幾。添煤工人Danny Boodman於是偷偷跑到餐廳搜羅客人遺落下的貴重物品，結果一無所獲。失望之餘，他在鋼琴架上發現一個漂亮的嬰兒。他抱起嬰兒，看見他的目光清澈，皮膚白凈。Danny Boodman對這意外收獲十分驚喜，於是收留了這個孩子，起名叫Danny Boodman T.D.Lemon Nineteen Hundred(丹尼 博德曼 T.D.雷蒙1900），紀念這孩子在新世紀的第一天被他收養。 善良的Danny Boodman十分疼愛小1900，教他識字，從不讓他受苦。但因為沒有任何出生證明之類的文件，Danny Boodman害怕1900會被別人搶走，所以不許他離開船艙一步。 在1900八歲時，Danny Boodman因為船上的機械操縱失誤死了，在懵懂的1900於生離死別前迷茫時，突然聽見遠處傳來美妙動人的聲音，他回過頭，身邊一個亞洲女人告訴他，這是音樂。 幾日後，1900在夜裡偷偷溜進餐廳，來到白天專屬樂手演奏娛樂上等乘客的鋼琴前，彈起了自己即興隨想的曲子。歌聲吵醒了許多乘客，他們好奇的想去探個究竟，卻都陶醉在這小傢伙如天籟般的音樂中。直到音樂停下來，船長才過去對他說，「1900，這一切都違背常規。」年幼的1900看著他的說：「去它的常規。」 （Fuck the regulations） 幾年後，成人的1900成了弗吉尼亞號樂隊的鋼琴師，雖然他從未下過船，但是卻能在鋼琴上幻想世間的一切，在一次暴風雨中，他巧遇了正在暈船的Max，兩個人十分投緣。從此，Max成了他一生的知己。 Max十分欣賞他的音樂才華，但也同時對他固執的不肯下船登上陸地感到困惑。他希望1900能向世人展示自己的才華，得到世人的承認，名利雙收，過上好的生活。但對1900而言，世人嚮往的生活對他而言太過遙遠，無法理解，也因此根本不具備誘惑力。 之後，人們對1900音樂才華的廣為傳頌，爵士樂的始祖Jelly Roll Morton自認自己的才華無人能及，因而向1900發起挑戰。最終1900獲勝，這次比賽更加讓1900名聲大噪，唱片出版商希望為他錄制唱片，並保證他會名利雙收，他的內心依然平靜，安於生活和音樂帶給他的快樂。直到他遇到一個樸素而迷人的女孩。那一天他正在錄制唱片，女孩順著窗子向里看，和他四目相對，盡管女孩僅僅是在用窗戶的反射照鏡子,他卻立刻愛上了她。隨興而發彈奏了一曲柔情似水的曲子。（那個女子就是手風琴匠的女兒，那個老人曾與1900在船艙內交心暢談過。他來到了美國，開立了一家魚店，開始了全新的生活。而1900卻始終不能釋懷。直到最後一刻。）唱片錄制完成，出版商把唱片放給1900聽，他沒有把唱片給出版商，因為他不允許別人把他的音樂從他身邊帶走。他猶豫再三，想把唱片送給那位素不相識的女孩，卻沒能如願以償，1900無法掩飾自己的哀傷，他失望地毀了唱片把碎片扔在垃圾桶里。於是他與愛情失之交臂。（後由Max把唱片的碎片藏到了1900的鋼琴中，這是1900唯一留下的音樂記錄） 在女孩下船之後，Max和1900誰都沒有再次提起那個女孩，1900依舊彈著鋼琴，但心裡卻一直牽掛著女孩。Max的勸說和對愛情生活的憧憬打動了他，在至少十二年後的某個春天他最終決定下船，登上陌生的陸地。那天所有的船員都和他揮手告別，他穿著Max送給他的大衣，緩慢的走下船梯，但當他走到船梯的一半時，他茫然的看著偌大的紐約市，凝視了一陣，他突然摘掉頭上的禮帽並將之拋了出去，禮帽掉在了船與大陸之間的海面上，然後1900轉過頭，返回到了船上。他對Max說，我再也不下船了。自此，他與世界失之交臂。 直到許多年後，大戰結束，早已離開弗吉尼亞號的Max偶然發現破舊的維珍尼亞號就要被炸掉，他堅信1900在船上，可是1900並沒有露面，直到船馬上要被炸毀前，Max拿到當年的唱片獨自在船上播放的時候，1900才在角落裡現身。但是1900執意不肯下船，他說出了當年他未能下船的原因：世界太廣闊了，讓他陌生得害怕，那些城市裡的街道無邊無際，就像有無數個鍵的沒有盡頭的鋼琴一樣讓他感到恐懼，他寧可退出生命的舞台，給自己一個盡頭，而不願意茫然無措的面對一個無邊無際，無所適從的生活。Max無法勸他下船，最終悲傷的離去，在遠處目送維珍尼亞號和1900一同被炸彈粉碎。 那天他告訴那個他曾對之提起過1900的傳奇故事的樂器行老闆：1900死了，老闆也感到惋惜，於是把Max因為窘迫賣掉的小號還給了他並對他說，一個好的故事比一個舊小號值錢。帶著舊小號與1900的音樂傳奇，Max離開了，從此，只有Max一個人會記起那一生不會踏上陸地的天才鋼琴師和他傳奇的一生。

很經典的兩部電影。

❻ 概括英文電影（寒假作業）

查理的巧克力工廠
精彩對白Shopkeeper: You found Wonka's last golden ticket!店主：你得到了旺卡的最後一張金門票！--------------------------------------------------------------------------------[Mike has just found a Golden Ticket] （麥克剛剛拿到了一張金獎票）TV Reporter: So tell us,what did it taste like?電視記者：告訴我們，它味道如何？ Mike Teavee: I don't know,I hate chocolate!麥克：我不知道，我討厭巧克力！--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Willy Wonka: Don't touch that squirrel's nuts! It'll make him crazy!威利·旺卡：別碰松鼠們的松果！那會使它們生氣的！--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Grandma Georgina: Nothing's impossible,Charlie.奶奶喬治娜：一切皆有可能，查理。--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Willy Wonka: Little boy,don't push my button.威利·旺卡：孩子，不要碰我的那個按鈕。--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dr. Wonka: Lollipops. Ought to be called cavities on a stick!旺卡醫生：棒棒糖，應該被叫做蛀牙棒！--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dr. Wonka: Do you have an appointment? 旺卡醫生：你預約了么?Charlie: no,but he needs to check.查理：沒有，但是他早就應該來看看了。

❼ 英文電影簡介50字

第一部《哈利波特與魔法石》Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
11-year old Harry, mistreated by his heartless relatives, realizes that he is, in fact, a wizard. Led by the friendly giant Hagrid, he goes to the famous Howarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to start his 7 year long wizard ecation. But someone is up to something bad in the Dark forest outside the school...

第二部《哈利波特與密室》
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter's adventures continue...Harry Potter begins his second year at Hogwarts School of Wizardry, but is warned by a mysterious creature that danger awaits him at the school. Malevolent voices whisper from the walls. Soon it's not just Harry who is worried about survival, as dreadful things begin to happen at Hogwarts.

第三部《哈利波特與阿磁卡班的囚徒》
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
"He's at Hogwarts. He's at Hogwarts." The infamous Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban Prison and all sources believe he's after Harry Potter's life. What connection could there be between Harry's past and this crazed murderer? Can Harry figure it out before Black gets to him? And why does Mr. Weasley think Harry may want to find Black first? A shocking insight to a night 12 years ago.

第四部《哈利波特與火焰杯》
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire takes us deeper into the characters' minds and the darkness of the Wizarding World. At the Quidditch World Cup, Voldemort's followers gather and wreak havoc. Then, at Hogwarts, a legendary event takes place. The Triwizard Tournament! The Goblet of Fire judges who gets in and who doesn't. On the fateful night, three champions are selected. But then the Goblet spits out one other. Harry's. These two major events point to the return of Lord Voldemort. Dumbledore and the other teachers sense it, but it is inevitable. And Harry is no longer safe at Hogwarts. This fourth installment is the most dramatic, and also the scariest. Let me just say that all does not necessarily end well...

❽ 請用英語概括出一部電影的大致內容，字數不用很多！！

《2012》Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world......

❾ 電影英語簡介！！！

獅子王
There is a little lion called Ziba whose father is a king .His parents are very kind to him.He has so many pals and lives a happy life .
Unluckily.his father was killed one day .He thought it was his fault and he regreted a lot.
He lost the touch with his family since then.His two pals helped him to lead a new life .
His mother and other family members thought he had died .One day ,his girlfriend met him by accident .She persuadee him to come back to get his kingdom .He first did not take her advisebut then he agreeed with the help of a magical monkey
He returned and he got to know it's his uncle who ended his father'life .He fought against him and he won at last .
He saved his mother and other lions and became king of his tribe .He is lion of great determination and iron will. He is a really Hero!

小獅子辛巴是獅子國王的兒子。他的父母非常疼愛他。他有許多好朋友並且居住愉快的生活。
不幸發生了，辛巴的父親被殺害了。他認為它是他的錯，並且他很內疚
辛巴從那以後與他的家庭失去聯系。他的兩個個好朋友丁滿和鵬鵬幫助他融入新的生活。
辛巴的母親和其他家庭成員認為他死了。一天，他的女朋友偶然地遇見了他。她勸他回來拿回他的王國。他首先沒有接受她的意見。但是最後他在一隻不可思議的猴子幫助下然後同意了
辛巴回來了，並且他知道它是是他的伯父殺害了他的父親。辛巴與伯父作戰，最後辛巴勝利了。
辛巴保護了他的母親和其他獅子，並且成為了他的部落的國王。他是只偉大而且勇敢的獅子，他真正地成為一個英雄!

功夫熊貓(Kung Fu Panda)

It's the story about a lazy, irreverent slacker panda, named Po, who is the biggest fan of Kung Fu around...which doesn't exactly come in handy while working every day in his family's noodle shop. Unexpectedly chosen to fulfill an ancient prophecy, Po's dreams become reality when he joins the world of Kung Fu and studies alongside his idols, the legendary Furious Five -- Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey -- under the leadership of their guru, Master Shifu. But before they know it, the vengeful and treacherous snow leopard Tai Lung is headed their way, and it's up to Po to defend everyone from the oncoming threat. Can he turn his dreams of becoming a Kung Fu master into reality? Po puts his heart - and his girth - into the task, and the unlikely hero ultimately finds that his greatest weaknesses turn out to be his greatest strengths.

它是關於一隻懶惰熊貓的故事，名為Po，附近是功夫最大的發源地…當每天工作在他的家庭面條店時，po每天都希望能加入功夫行列中，意想不到地烏龜大師選擇履行古老預言， Po的夢想成為現實，當他加入功夫世界並且沿著他的夢想學習，但卻激怒了神奇五狹 -- 老虎、仙鶴、螳螂、蛇和猴子 。在他們的宗師的領導下一起干po走 但是，當他們知道不久之後，雪豹Tai向他們報復回來了，並且會對po和庄園進行威脅，大師不得不向po傳授功夫。 他可以把他的夢想成真？為變成Kung Fu大師？ Po終於全心全意地去參加訓練，接受了任務：原來他的最巨大的弱點結果是他的最巨大的力量！不可思議的英雄誕生了！

變形金剛(Transformers )
In the Arctic Circle ring the 1800s, Captain Archibald Witwicky chips away at a massive sheet of ice, only to break it and fall into an abyss, landing on a robotic hand partially buried in the ice. He finds the eyes of Decepticon leader Megatron staring back at him, who burns a map showing the location of the life giving Allspark into Witwicky's eyeglasses. These are handed down to his descendant, Sam, in the present day. Elsewhere, Decepticon Blackout attacks a United States Air Force base in Qatar in the present day, grabbing and absorbing information from a computer whilst he destroys the base and deploys Scorponok. Scorponok chases Captain Lennox and his Special Ops team in the desert and in a village, when Lennox makes a phone call to The Pentagon, who send a jet to fight off the Decepticon. Sam Witwicky buys his first car, which happens to be the Autobot Bumblebee. Bumblebee helps Sam to gain Mikaela as his girlfriend. The Autobots come looking for Archibald's glasses, whilst hiding in Sam's yard, and the nefarious Sector 7 comes to invade Sam's house. The film eventually concludes with a battle that begins at the Hoover Dam and concludes in Los Angeles as Autobot leader Optimus Prime and Megatron face each other.

在19世紀期間的北極圈， Archibald Witwicky上尉損害冰巨型的板料，只有打破它和落入深淵，登陸在冰部分地埋沒的一隻機器人手。 發現Decepticon領導人Megatron的眼睛凝視他的他，燒顯示給與生命Allspark地點的地圖入Witwicky的鏡片。 這些被遞下來對他的後裔，山姆，在現在。 在別處，他毀壞基地並且部署Scorponok， Decepticon停電在現在，劫掠和引人入勝的信息的卡達攻擊美國空軍基地從計算機。 Scorponok在沙漠追逐隊上尉Lennox和他的特別Ops和在村莊，當Lennox打一個電話到五角大樓時，送一架噴氣機與Decepticon戰斗。 山姆買他的第一輛汽車，竟然是大黃蜂。 大黃蜂幫助山姆獲取Mikaela作為他的女朋友。 掩藏在山姆的圍場和惡毒區段來侵略山姆的房子， Autobots來尋找Archibald的玻璃。 影片以開始在胡佛水壩並且在洛杉磯結束作為Autobot領導人Optimus最初和Megatron面孔的爭斗最終結束。

❿ 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.
未來水世界
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.