when this baby delivers it's payload...devastating!!!

Rating: 9/10 (2 July 2004)

One of the most underrated comedies...ever! Followers of the mighty bearded one and critics alike have bashed this everything but the kitchen sink spectacle with fervor for quarter a century now, and in my small mind it's just coming better and better. Sure it's chaotic...that's the whole point, like always cool Robert Stack comments in the movie: This isn't state of California, this is state of insanity. What i love in this movie is the fact that it manages to salute AND take a p*** to old Hollywood with equal relish. Like a wise man said, you gotta learn to laugh to the things you love or you end up being just another fundamentalist. Of course nowadays our modern day movie mogul is much less zany being busy replacing guns to walkie-talkies that totters don't lose their sleep, must be bad influence from his infernal majesty mr. Jar-Jar Lucas. Okay, acquired taste it is but my humble opinion is that this particular bonanza will gather supporters long after "worthier" Spielvehicles are out of gas. In my money the USO dance/barroom Brawl is more exciting piece of film than dozen Hooks combined. Gotta go now! Japs are bombing San Francisco!