Desperate stuff, this, full of stars who should have known better, but ending up as a sort of transatlantic equivalent of Whoops Apocalypse.

Give Roger & Me director Michael Moore a story about the US declaring war on Canada to increase the president's rating among hawks, and you might seem to have laughter guaranteed.

A lot of talented people jumped to the wrong conclusion here, forgetting that Moore had never actually made a fictional feature film.

Even Dan Aykroyd and James Belushi crop up in guest roles in support of John Candy and Alan Alda, but humour is nuked from the word Go, and the film's only funny line comes in the closing credits: 'No Canadians were harmed in the making of this film' - we though we'd save you the trouble of sitting through the rest.

Rip Torn deserves some kind of Star Trek medal for boldly going further over the top than any man before.