This is the latest instalment in our From the Vault feature series, in which we reflect on culturally significant movies celebrating notable anniversaries.When Pearl Harbor was released 25 years ago this month, it became a byword for a certain kind of ultra-crass, ultra-commercial Hollywood filmmaking.Critics sharpened their knives, the film stacked up six Golden Raspberry Award nominations, and Team America: World Police honoured it with a diss track featuring the lyrics: “I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark when he made Pearl Harbor / I miss you more than that movie missed the point and that’s an awful lot, girl.”But viewed today, is Pearl Harbor really so unforgivably terrible?While nobody is arguing for a Heaven’s Gate-style reassessment – it is still ultra-crass and ultra-commercial – with hindsight, it is easier to see why it became a worldwide box office hit, winning an Oscar for best sound editing.Based on a script by Randall Wallace (Braveheart) and featuring a mixture of real and fictional characters, the film is set in the run-up to the 1941 Japanese attack that brought the US into World War II.