Spielberg took the battle scenes from this movie.......

Rating: 8/10 (26 February 2002)

I rented this, not for Sellers, but for Kubric. It had a few chuckles,
but it is definitely dated. Most of Sellers performances were a bit
too silly (the "mine Fuhrer" and Nazi salute business, for example).
What I did notice, however, was the eerily striking similarity in the
battle scenes of the movie and those from Saving Private Ryan.
From the shaky hand-held super 8 camera filming to the camera
angle shots taken juxtaposed to the machine guns as they fired. I
am convinced that Spielberg stole these ideas which were what
made Saving Private Ryan such a great film from Kubric in this
movie. For that reason alone, it made the film worth watching. As
far as a comedy goes, it failed pretty miserably........