National Treasure is one of those movies people watch and realize that it was either made for people five years younger than them, or for idiots. I say five years younger because a person would have to be around 13 or younger to enjoy all of National Treasure&s explosions and miss all of its logical failures.

One thing I like to do before I watch a movie is check out the rest of the audience in the theater. There were three types of people attending the movie: parents with their children, people there to review National Treasure, and teenagers with nothing else to do with their time.

Parents attending with their children were the only group that seemed to enjoy it. Unfortunately for me, they made up the vast majority of the crowd, so laughter would ensue after every cheesy one-liner or prat fall.

The film starts out with the &hero& Ben Gates, played by Nicolas Cage, trying to find a boat frozen in the Arctic Ocean. To start out with, everyone on the boat died, and the only thing Ben has to go on is the ship&s name. Luckily for Ben, his assistant Riley (Justin Bartha) has a computer that has locked on to the exact location of the boat. When asked about how he knew where the boat was, Riley responds that the boat was hard to find because it was in a moving glacier. Well then, that explains everything.

That is the level of intelligence throughout the entire movie. Whether it is statements like &I am going to steal The Declaration of Independence,& or the fact that they easily do in fact steal it, &National Treasure& doesn&t disappoint in being fun for a sixth grade crowd.

Benjamin Franklin Gates spends his entire life searching for what he grandly dubs the &greatest treasure of all time.& Judging from his fantastic talents, he must have also spent a lot of time becoming a super-genius.

One barrier that he must overcome in order to retrieve the treasure is figuring out all of the riddles our forefathers made. And when they say forefathers, though it sounds dumb, they are actually talking about guys like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and the like. These riddles were made so the entire nation of England couldn&t find the treasure. Yet Ben was able to site down and figure out every single riddle within 30 seconds. That&s just pure genius.

I think the main point of the movie was to take a shot at our forefathers and our current FBI system. By the end of National Treasure, I was quite sure that people like Benjamin Franklin and George Washington spent their time digging holes in the ground and writing crazy riddles instead of running the United States. That is because they were part of a strange but rather disorganized cult of Masons, who can make up the aforementioned riddles but aren&t so good at constructing buildings, which, as masons, they probably should be.

After Cage and his posse manage to steal The Declaration of Independence, the FBI guys (led by actor Harvey Keitel, who should have known better) on his tail decide they&d better not chase that van speeding away from the crime scene. That was the most intelligent decision made by the FBI in the entire movie.

I would like to hope that one person cannot just walk into Metro in DC, open a secure door and mess with the security cameras in the National Archives. It is understandable that one would only need to guard the Declaration of Independence when it is publicly viewed8212;in fact, someone trying to steal it would have to be an idiot to try and steal it when it was not on display. Wait, that&s not right. One would have to be an idiot to make a movie about stealing the Declaration of Independence.

There were some good points to the movie. People who like unnecessary, random explosions will probably like this movie. People who like the idea of using The Declaration of Independence as a shield or a speed bump may enjoy this film. People who like really stupid adventure movies that are just made to take money in the name of history will also probably like this movie.

I would give this movie a one out of 10 rating. It is somewhat more enjoyable than &Benji: Off the Leash!& and somewhat less enjoyable than &Garfield: The Movie.&