Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah Friday, May 12, 2000

Even Travolta stinks in 'Battlefield Earth'

By Jeff Vice Deseret News movie critic

Bad science-fiction has a new name, and it is "Battlefield Earth," the early frontrunner for this year's worst movie.

There are only two ways to react to a film this completely awful - you can either flee in abject horror, or better still, you can embrace it in all of its cheesy, stupid glory.

After all, you're unlikely to see as hilarious a sight this year as the vision of pudgy star John Travolta wobbling on mini-stilts, trying to deliver bad dialogue as if it had been written by Shakespeare. The fact that he looks like one of "Star Trek's" Klingon characters - but with worse teeth - certainly doesn't help.