A Classic!

Rating: 10/10 (23 August 2001)

I first was this movie when I was 15 and i've loved it ever since!
Steven Spielbreg has created a classic film that makes fun out of the most depressing period of American history, WW2! The story is set a week after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. A Japanese submarine is off the cost of Los Angeles. The want to blow up something but they don't know what. So the choose Hollywood. Hysteria grips Hollywood and that's when this movie COMES ALIVE! The jokes and gags deliver the laughs. There are many sub-plots in the movie which keeps it going. The special effects are very well done, that's because nearly every set gets blow up in some form or another.

What makes this movie so great is the star-studded cast. John Belishi steals the show as the crazy maniac pilot, Captain Wild Bill Kelso, Dan Aykroyd, Robert Stack as Major General Joseph W. Stillwell. Warren Oats is spectacular as the crazy Colonel "Madman" Maddox (My favorite character "Let me here your guns! Yam-yam-yam-yam-yam!")John Candy has one of his first big screen appearances as Private Foley. The music is something amazing, it sets the mood perfectly, and its done by the best, John Williams.

All up, if Pearl Harbor wasn't your cup of tea, give 1941 a spin. You won't be disappointed.