Such a shame!

Rating: 3/10 (27 November 2013)

1941
What can I say about this? Not a lot I am afraid.
The movie is a war comedy set a few days after Pearl Harbor. a town is getting ready for an attack from the Japanese, but all in comedy fashion.
Everything that this film had going for it really should have made this a fantastic film. Directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Robert Zemeckis, music by John Williams, the film stars John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Ned Beatty and Christopher Lee... sounds like the perfect team right? Wrong!
This film was just not funny. There were a few moments which made me chuckle a little bit, but to be honest it was just all over the place. One minute the story is about getting ready for an invasion, the next minute it is a love story about a guy who is not in the army, then it is a fetish movie about a woman who loves planes and will only go that step further with this guy if they are up in the air... honestly, I didn't get it. I really wanted to, but I was just thinking this would be far funnier than it ever was.
The characters seemed to have no connection together. I have no idea what John Belushi was doing through the movie. He was just on his own in the air for most of the film flying around.
I can't complain about the acting in general. As always Aykroyd, Belushi, Candy, Lee and Beatty did a good job. I just think they agreed to the wrong movie. It was badly written and a lot of it was set at night so it was very dark and hard to see.
I will give this film 3 out of 10.
It is such a shame because I am a fan of everyone that is involved.
"You know, this year wasn't the big year of the war, '41. I think the really big year is going to be 1942."
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