Review by Pamela Zoslov
Surrounding THIS MEANS WAR, a movie about two spies who rival for a woman's affections, is the story of two studios at war over the hearts of moviegoers. Fox, the studio behind the action-comedy THIS MEANS WAR, hoped to outdo rival Sony, which was scheduled to release its sappy wife-in-a-coma movie THE VOW on Valentine's Day. Fox's strategy was to characterize THIS MEANS WAR, a movie replete with explosions, shootings, car crashes and broken stunt glass, as a romantic comedy – the perfect Valentine's Day date movie. Cooler heads and audience research prevailed, and Fox will now release the movie on February 17 to an inevitable torrent of bad reviews.
