The last hour was hilarious!

Rating: 4/10 (26 June 2005)

I watched 1941 the other day to see if Steven Spielberg really can direct a bad movie and yes he can. Steven has directed a piece of boring garbage which starts with a spoof of his film Jaws with the evil Japanese trying to find Hollywood so they can bomb it. From that mildly amusing opening, the film falls short. But at least the final hour of the film was funny! We have crazy John Belushi chasing after after an enemy ship on a motorcycle needing to tell them "Nobody move! Your taking me to Tokyo, anyone got a light?" You have two idiots on a ferris wheel with snipers shooting at the ship while not having them shoot at their wheel. You have a family man who uses a soldiers torpedo gun that has been placed on his front lawn for supervision and every time he aims for the ship and shoots, the machine hurls him through his own house crashing through the walls, you have a General crying over Dumbo, the entire army are fallowing Belushi with their leader Dan Akroyd knocked crazy as he thinks he is a fly, you have a black soldier running after his tank covered in flour, you have two lovers in an enemy jet shooting at their own people while making out and so on. I give this film the big 4 even though it deserves a two but the last hour pumped the score up a little. But that does not save 1941, skip the film unless you rewind the film to it's last hour.