It's not a great WWII film, but it's a pretty good comedy!

Rating: 8/10 (26 October 2019)

Just had the pleasure of watching this film with my dad, who said he hadn't watched this film in well over twenty years, and we both highly enjoyed it! If I had not researched it beforehand and I didn't know who the director was, you would be very hard-pressed to convince me this wasn't a film by John Landis instead by Steven Spielberg.
There's some great humor in this film that doesn't pull any punches. It felt like I was watching a WWII film meets The Blues Brothers, Animal House, and It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. The acting is surprisingly good, though John Belushi and Dan Akroyd are slightly underused. The young love story is a little over-the-top, but it just adds to 1941's looney-tune comedic value.
However, I did find some of the racial comments a tad bit insensitive, and not just towards the Japanese and German people. If you can handle the frequent negative racial commentary, though, this film is quite good. I recommend it.