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Summary: look 1941 and laugh you butt off
Review: Well, not everyones taste, if you in for the real MAD and UNBOUND Humor, social not so correct, you will have the time of your life. Its a 2 Hour rollercoasterride, Way better than it rep. and a real good cure after been lobotomized by the movie formerly known as Pearl Harbor.
If your in for the so called "Real Hero" Movie Stuff, well try something else. For me Spielbergs best Movie,his only with Belushi, Lee and Pickens.
Hope they have the Making of, running time over 100 Min and nearly as funny as the movie, on the Disc.
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Summary: A film that will live in infamy
Review: What a dreadful movie - think "It's a Mad Mad World" without the subtlety and comedic timing. Yep - that bad.
To be sure, Spielberg's production values are excellent, and the soundtrack (by John Williams, no less) is splendid, but the film itself is chaotic, moronic and, regrettably, unfunny.
And just to put the icing on the cake: the DVD edition is described as "widescreen", but it's actually letterbox at standard resolution - not anamorphic, so the visuals aren't that great.
I suppose that this was Spielberg's "Eyes Wide Shut"......
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Summary: Simply Awful
Review: What a waste of talent. I don't even want to give this movie onestar. Surprised this bomb is still in print, it's truly a dawg. I picked it up in the library, I saw John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd, figured it would be good. Wrong.It is bad as it can get. Spielberg tried to use slapstick. It's continiously not funny.To think of all the stunts and wrecks and all the money that wasted making this film, and there are people starving. I just could not wait until it would end, and it seemed like it would never end. Animal House, the blues brothers and even neighbors it is not. Don't waste your evening.
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Summary: BETTER THAN YOU WOULD THINK..
Review: When this movie came out, it was universally ripped by critics. To Spielbergs credit, he includes several of those reviews as extras on the DVD. Of course, he can do that now, he's Spielberg.Still the movie is great fun...a little long, but still fun. The extras are more than one might expect for a rather minor movie that's well over 20 years old. And most places have it relatively cheap...
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Summary: A Bloated Mess. HORRID
Review: with it being 2hrs and 26mins long this movie is a bloated mess from master Steven Spielberg who hasn't had a bad movie since never all his movies have been good. this is horrid i didn't find any form of humor in this mess of a movie. Jim Belushi is so unfunny and everything is bad what was Steven Spielberg thinking when he decided to makes this Horrid Movie
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Summary: A worthy comedy
Review: Yes, the general consensus is that this movie is terrible. But this is simply not true. It may not be comparable to the rest of the Speilberg canon, but thats where the first mistake lies in judging this film. Its a big dumb comedy filled with slapstick, pratfalls and belly laughs, its not designed to be anything else. If anyone but Spielberg directed this it would've been better received, I'm sure. Methinks the wolves were sharpening their knives back in '79, waiting for a glitch in the armor. That said, John Belushi's histrionics tend to grate, and the Tim Matheson/Nancy Allen subplot is just plain stupid, but thankfully this is an ensemble comedy, and these bits are just small parts of the whole. As for the DVD, the film looks great, and the bonus materials will give you more info than you ever thought you could handle about the making of 1941. The making of documentary is feature length in its own right, and it doesnt try to hide the fact that the film was badly received. In fact, a large portion of the special features Speilberg rightly defending it against its many detractors, explaining that he thinks that its funny. So do I.
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