Neil Breen, the director/writer/everything behind this movie, is an egomaniac weirdo with a Messiah-complex.
Charlie Sheen voices a dog detective, in this ridiculously bad CGI movie. Like if Toy Story was about food mascots. Weirdly creepy.
Possibly the biggest bad movie? I think the super-apologetic language slave in this scene is genuinely hilarious though.
It's pretty funny, and makes a lot about the movie make sense, reading about the financial fraud that went on:
Following the failure of Battlefield Earth and other films independently produced by Franchise Pictures, The Wall Street Journal reported that the FBI was probing "the question of whether some independent motion picture companies have vastly inflated the budget of films in an effort to scam investors" Intertainment had agreed to pay 47% of the production costs of several films in exchange for European distribution rights, but ended up paying for between 60 and 90% of the costs instead. The company alleged that Franchise had defrauded it to the tune of over $75 million by systematically submitting "grossly fraudulent and inflated budgets"
The case was heard before a jury in a Los Angeles federal courtroom in May–June 2004. The court heard testimony from Intertainment that according to Franchise's bank records the real cost of Battlefield Earth was $44 million, not the $75 million declared by Franchise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_Earth_(film)