Querying Zorro

I have a question and a few things to say about the Legend of Zorro. I can't think of anyway to phrase it without revealing major plots point of the film, so please scoot over to the extended section if you want to know what I'm asking....

Now, I have no problem with films featuring terrorist plots to destroy the United States or any other country. It's very much a theme of it's time, and some films will do better justice to the idea than others - such is the way of things. But is it just me, or is a storyline featuring terrorists from a secretive European cell manufacturing and distributing high yield explosives in an attempt to destroy the United States seem slightly out of place in Zorro?

As films go it's still an entertaining piece of fluff, though it suffers slightly in the face of it's superior predecessor. I was enjoying it well enough, until I came crashing out of my suspended disbelief when the dastardly plans of the villain stood revealed. Aside from the fact that it the scheme itself - not to mention the villain and his lair - appeared to have been transplanted from a James Bond film, it also seemed to contain touches that wouldn't have been out of place in Austen Powers. The covert and highly secretive religious organisation, for example, which can't resist plastering it's name and logo over every conceivable surface including a massive carved plinth deep in the heart of the lair. Because, you know, nothing says secrecy like sculpture. There's also the unintentionally comedic dispatching of the cohort who disagreed the nefarious plan.

Anachronisms and gratuitous rah-rah flag waving aside (literal flag waving - there are flags and they are indeed waved) it's not a bad film. My Hitchhikers review: Mostly inoffensive.