Get back in the car, you smirking slut!

Rating: 8/10 (24 July 2007)

Dr. 'Doc' Daneeka: Sure. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat isn't really crazy, so I can't ground him. Yossarian: OK, let me see if I've got this straight. In order to be grounded, I've got to be crazy. And I must be crazy to keep flying. But if I ask to be grounded, that means I'm not crazy anymore, and I have to keep flying. Dr. 'Doc' Daneeka: You got it, that's Catch-22. Yossarian: Whoo... That's some catch, that Catch-22. Dr. 'Doc' Daneeka: It's the best there is.
People don't want to watch movie showing the stupidity of war. They want heroes so they can go to sleep at night thinking all those dead soldiers meant something.
Unfortunately, war is just failed diplomacy, or someone showing how big his cajones are. What's the purpose of an Army if we can't use it? Why are the Japanese now dropping bombs. Because a defensive Army is useless in showing cajones.
Alan Arkin is magnificent as Capt. John Yossarian, who just wants to go home. He knows he's crazy to keep flying, but knowing that means he's not crazy, so he has to keep flying, which is crazy.
The cast of this movie is one of the best I have seen: Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Bob Newhart, Paula Prentiss, Norman Fell, Charles Grodin and more giving us laughs aplenty from Buck Henry's superb screenplay based on Joseph Heller's novel under the direction of Mike Nichols.
And, of course, there is Olimpia Carlisi, reason alone to watch.