Well, maybe I don't get this movie, because I'm not American. But this movie had more than just a few laugh-out-loud-so-awful moments. It was pure propaganda and in my eyes just not suiting the occasion it used as a pretense to prepare the American people for a next gulf war. By the way, it was totally predictable and I felt embarrassed in some scenes to have to watch it. I think it is highly questionable if you should employ kids for the sole purpose to make propaganda for the Navy. I mean, in the end it is cruel, that the girl accepts her fathers decision to stay in the navy. Isn't it totally unnatural and crazy, that the filmmakers try to convince us that CHILDREN should accept the fact, that war and sacrifice, involving their loved ones are necessary?