Blowing things up: yeah, the first thing I didn't like was the entirely pointless opening-explosion thing. I think it was supposed to mirror the final wicker-man-sacrifice scene (expecially the interactions between Cage and the respective little girls) so we would think that Orson Welles lives and was the secret director behind the director...but it was just annoying, not moving, and didn't add anything (there was no equivalent to this scene in the original).

Current user rating for Wicker Man: 3.5 and dropping...in comparison, FlightPlan, another pretty bad flick starring Kate Beahan (whom you should not trust around children, it seems) is at 6.2 / 10. But it's just ordinarily bad.