It's absolutely impossible to understand why critics and Hollywood considered this ridiculous and boring movie as one deserving to be recommended, or nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including the Best Picture category.

Even though the film has lots of expensive special effects, and good performances of the whole bunch of actors involved in it (including Jamie Lee Curtis' part as the IRS agent), it is absolutely void of any artistic essence.

While suffering watching this naive product, I was thinking about other films which had been nominated to several Oscars before, like the excellents "BEN HUR", "GONE WITH THE WIND", "THE GODFATHER", "OUT OF AFRICA', "LAWRENCE OF ARABIA", "PATTON", "THE DEER HUNTER", "APOCALYPSE NOW", etc.; and came to the conclusion that films taste has unfortunately decayed through the years.