Timeless hilarious classic.....

Rating: 10/10 (23 November 2010)

This movie is outrageously funny for a war/apocalyptic plot. I never laughed out so much. The director, Stanley Kubrick's olympian reaches of perfection and creativity never ceases to amaze me!
The movie is about a private nuclear war waged by an insane general taking advantage of a tweak in the war codes, with the argument of the loss of "precious body fluids" thru water fluoridation by a Communist conspiracy; and the tussle extracting the secret codes from that general,to stop them from bombing Russia and survival plan when the situation gets out of hand.
Peter Sellers did a great job in three roles. The conversation between the US President (Peter Sellers) and the Soviet Premier was unbelievably funny.
George.C.Scott's role as General Tugidson was over-the-top hilarious. Every moment of his scenes made me twitch with laughter; his facial expressions where he learns about the "Doomsday Machine' is a miracle. The role works in being is so inappropriate and antithetical to the situation.
The best scene of the movie for me was the Coca Cola scene where Peter Sellers asks the colonel to break the Coca Cola machine for some change to call President to give the recall code, to stop the guys from dropping the nuclear bombs on Russia. The scene was supposed to be so tense. The colonel answers "That's private property. If you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you? You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company." I mean how did they come up such ideas?
"Mr. President, we must not allow a mineshaft gap!"