Terribly funny. Pretty clean humor compared to todays movies.

Rating: 10/10 (4 August 2006)

When i first started watching Dr. Stranglove... I thought wow what a long name. I found myself quickly engulfed in the cleverly written cold war based plot. This movie sends humor your way in as many scenes as possible. It has all the characters you need to make a great comedy. I particularly liked the role of two characters, Peter Sellers who plays many roles in the film of which one is Dr. Stranglove. This Dr. seems to be of German descent, is in a wheelchair and finds himself unable to keep from hailing the president, who is also cleverly also played by Peter Sellers. At more than one time the President is having a phone conversation with the Russian Czar and by what you hear on our side of the conversation the writers are drastically poking fun at the Russians. I really enjoyed the performance of George C. Scott as Gen. Turgidson, he plays the Commie hating Gen. that never trust the Russians at face value. I found Gen. Turgidson to be incredibly funny.
Movie starts at an army base were Gen. Ripper sends out a "Plan R" command to the in-flight B-52s that carry nuclear weapons. We are not told what plan R is right away. After giving this order Gen. Ripper barricades his army base and gives orders to shoot anyone attempting to get in, even American "looking" soldiers. Before long we are engulfed in two drastically different views. One one hand we sympathize with the commanders in the "war room" who are trying to stop a nuclear Holocaust. But on the other hand we find ourselves not wanting the crew of our B-52 to fail their mission. As luck would have it our B-52 looses radio contact and so they proceed with "plan R" which we have found out, means plan retaliation. We as we were attacked from the commies and we will retaliate with our nukes. On the home front the "war room" is having quiet the bustle of action the Russian Ambassador is aloud into the "war room" and Gen. Turgidson has a fit. We get our first glimpse of Dr. Stranglove here. The war room decides to take the base to acquire the codes to cancel plan R. Gen. Ripper fights till the end and eventually shoots himself so the codes are lost. Luckily he wrote them on a piece of paper on his desk before he died. Now the codes are given to contact the other B-52s whole cancel their plans. Our B-52 however is still flying low, Our leader of the plane is Maj Kong, who is a cowboy till the end when he ruff rides a nuke. As you may have guessed by now our B-52 did drop there bomb and Maj Kong is dead.
I would watch again, it's that good.