ALOHA-An ALL STAR CAST GETS this MOVIE to SOAR

ALOHA has enough star power to make the solar system spin.  Fortunately, because of its A list group of actors and minor rising stars this movie soars.  The plot for this movie is a bomb. It would be a major dud if not for the winning wiles & smiles of Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams and John Krasinski.  Cooper plays Brian, a former Iraqi ace reconnaisance pilot. He's seriously wounded on a mission and leaves the military.  He is hired by Bill Murray, a multi-billionaire exec. to a covert satellite joint mission with the armed forces.  Murray plays the devil incarnate with wicked charm.  "I've danced with the devil & I liked it," says Allison (Stone.)  She is a crackajack airforce capt. assigned to Cooper as his omnipresent lackey.  Allison doen't lack for effervescent enthusiasm and indomitable abilities.  Cooper plays the brash, battle weary cynic whose in it for the payout.  Added to the dynamics is Brian's ex-love Tracy (McAdams.)  She is married to airforce pilot Woody (Krasinski.)  The sexual tension between Brian & Allison and Brian & Tracy is combustible.  Krasinski gets more across with fewer words spoken than most topgun actors.  Col. Lacy (Danny McBride) gives comedy a big hands up. Tracy & Woody have a daughter (who looks like McAdams) & son.  Do we care if Brian is the biological father?  Are we vested in this ridiculous Austin Powers' plot?  If not for the star power that lifts this film it would have been a sappy melodrama.  But, it's a movie you won't regret seeing.  It scores a hit to the heart and may launch some waterworks.