DUH...just those who don't get it say that

Rating: 10/10 (10 January 2009)

Gotta love this movie. No...it's not Mad Mad Mad Mad World...but a good version set to wartime madness with great actors getting silly and caricaturing themselves. Slim Pickens stole the show, as did the entire Japanese submarine crew...especially the captain.
If you didn't like this movie, or tried to compare it to "MASH" like one idiot here did, then you just don't get satire at this level. You are not the target audience of this film, nor would I want you sitting next to me while this was on the screen. Nothing in this movie was meant to be serious. I guess that just aggravates people who are into serious films. As for the one guy who said something about HATING it because of Ned Beatty losing his home before Christmas and that such a loss before Christmas was inappropriate to make fun of...what?? WHAT???? Are you just plain stupid? Did you think Laurel and Hardy shorts were badly done documentaries of the 1930's and that's why you didn't laugh? It's a damned movie already...and you just don't have 1 iota of brain to get the irony. You probably thought that the stooges used real hammers to whack themselves over the head and wondered why the ambulances didn't show up. Get over yourself. Man, there are some stupid people out there.
*SPOILER* Yeah...the house looked a little fakey as it "blew up" falling off the cliff (you can see the charges going off) but it capped off the hysteria pretty well and shows how a little rumor of something can set off a chain reaction of craziness to follow. Belushi had a minor role and carried his part off well enough, Robert Stack was genius...especially in the Dumbo scene. Even Lenny & Squiggy's cameo were done well. The extended version gives some added hilarity....though some of it was more fluff and you can see why it ended up on the cutting room floor. Still good to watch those extras.
As for all you Scrooges who think this is a turkey...well go rent Ishtar or Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Like another said...grab a beer, sit back and watch this film! It's great fun unless you are a complete prude or don't like American's laughing at Americans! This film will surely take any depressed old soddy mood and turn it around.