Scooby-Doo cartoons? When the gang solve the crime and the criminals are taken away.

@cpheonix said:

At the end when Sorrento and his henchwoman were chucked into the police car and then driven off...was that another reference to something? The way the whole scene was framed seemed very, very familiar...

A reference to virtually any movie (thriller, super-heroes blockbusters) where evil is eventually defeated by normal insecure hero, who kisses the badass princess, and they live happily ever after in a world free of exploitation and oppression ?

The movie was so stereotyped (plot, characters and social interactions, speeches, etc..., beyond pop culture references) that to the bitter end I thought Spielberg was going to turn "real reality" into another layer of gaming reality (Matrix, Existenz) experienced through a basement crawling teen's eyes, and thus somehow deconstruct these cliches.