HOLLEEEWOOD!!!

Rating: Null/10 (4 January 2000)

People, people. How can y'all criticize a film that receieved three Academy Award nominations? 1941 is a film for the ages. It offers slide-splitting comedy, great zany action and provides a great host of actors and actresses whom made this film a classic comedy. For me it ranks up there with such great comedies as Animal House and Blazing Saddles.
Spielberg knew exactly what he was doing when he directed this film. There is not one dead spot in the film, and it leaves you exhausted from all the laughing and tongue and cheek lines.
There are a number of great scenes in this flick, but the one that enjoyed the most is when Wild Bill Kelso (John Belushi) arrives at the airstrip of "Madman" Maddox (Warren Oates). As Kelso is about to tear off into the night sky in search of the Japanese, Maddox screams out, "Let me hear your guns!" Kelso responds, "My guns?!" "Your guns! YANK, YANK, YANK,YANK!"
The dance and fight scene at the USO club was well done, and the scene where Ned Beatty fires at the Japanese sub and in the process destroys his house was priceless.
The nay-sayers of this film are myopic and close minded to great comedy. You can't go wrong when you combine Saturday Night Live and Second City comedians folks!
By the way, for you WWII buffs out there. Did anyone recognize that Robert Stack's character, Gen. Joseph Stillwell was a spoof of "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell, a little know general in WWII who gave the Japanese hell in China for a number of years.
This forgotten Spielberg classic sits proudly on my shelf.