Gen Peckham thinks these reviews are too prolix

Rating: Null/10 (3 December 2002)

Of course the film version of CATCH-22 is inferior to the book!! Perhaps a Mini-series could have done CATCH-22 justice, but the M-S hadn't been invented in 1970. I can't think of any member of this cast who does not do complete justice to the role they were given, and is not perfectly cast(except Bob Newhart as Major Major, and that's just a height thing). The casting director did a wonderful job. Martin Balsam as Col. Cathcart, Buck Henry as Korn, Orson Welles as Dreedle, the list goes on & on. General Dreedle's WAC made me sweat and moan, just like Yossarian!! Bob Balaban was great as Orr, & I've loved watching his roles over the years, like in CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, & SEINFELD, & thinking of the job he did as the sodden, grinning "dwarf" in CATCH-22.