Brilliant film

Rating: 9/10 (26 May 2009)

This is an extremely funny film. But after my own analysis and reading some of the negative comments on here I came up with two reasons as to why people may not find this funny.
1.) It's outdated. This movie was made with the backdrop of the Cold War and impending nuclear holocaust, and is a satire about just that. Kids growing up these days, or even ten years ago, have no concept of what it was like during the 50's and 60's.
2.) It's such a great comedy, that other films and TV shows have stolen its jokes. Like all great works of art, they are imitated to some degree. Jokes from this movie have been used to death by other mediums, and I think that makes them lose their effect if seen in this movie.
Having said those two things, I didn't grow up with the threat of nuclear holocaust and I've heard the retelling of Dr. Strangelove's jokes, but I found this movie to be absolutely brilliant. Peter Seller's jumped to one of the top 3 of my favorite comedic actors. Every actor was fantastic. The writing was brilliant, and all the characters add the hilarity that ensues in this film. The story was great and extremely ridiculous, but still plausible, especially for that era.
Overall, a tremendous film by one of the greatest directors of all time.
9.5/10