This Movie Rocks!

Rating: 10/10 (9 November 2001)

I love this movie! 1941 is about the hysteria that gripped southern California shortly after the attack at Pearl Harbor. It mostly surrounds the vignettes of about six or seven groups of people all in one night: a loser-type guy tries to get with his girl, Tim Matheson tries to get with Nancy Allen in a plane, a crazed pilot(John Belushi) dreams of nothing but shooting down Japanese planes, two guys and a dummy sit at the top of a ferris wheel overlooking the ocean in order to spot Japanese submarines, a bunch of guys led by Dan Aykroyd in a tank, Ned Beatty is an elderly guy who tries to defend his ocean side home with what I think is an anti-aircraft gun, and lastly the Japanese themselves as they try to find something "honorable" to destroy.
This movie is hilarious. It's a shame that director Steven Spielberg said that this is his worst movie and it only got three Oscar nominations. I mean, at least "1941" is better than some of his more overrated tripe like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws(not too overrated, but too many people draw comparisons) and the completely idiotic E.T. Don't get me wrong. Steven Spielberg is one of my favorite directors and he's made some pretty good movies like Saving Private Ryan(the best war movie), Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, I haven't seen A.I. yet but it looks good, the criminally underrated Amistad and the almost completely forgotten The Color Purple(his best movie).