Not perfect but massively underated
I saw this movie for the first time since I was a kid and I was blown away even more as a 29 year old than I was as a 9 year old. The whole movie is like being in a fantastic whacky dream. Watching it as an adult I am amazed it flopped.
The sets and scenery is otherworldly yet totally believable, and its genuinely funny too.
Also the military insight in this movie is brilliant, whoever wrote it had more of an interest in military tactics than toys. The entire movie is an ode to attention to detail and the icing on cake is the brilliant forward thinking in offensive weapons.
Every time a risky movie flops, we get more run of the mill rubbish action movies (the expendables, fast and furious etc)