"10 females to each male" In your dreams!

Rating: 3/10 (2 December 2009)

Who really cares about one man's "essence?" This was a comedy that I really didn't find too funny. Some films are hard to imagine watching them without wide screen, and this movie is a perfect example of that. There was low key lighting throughout the film and it wasn't that great. I think Kubrick did a good job directing it, i just personally didn't enjoy watching this movie. The camera work on some parts of the film was shaky. It worked for certain parts (like in the beginning when the men first got the message of the attack on the plane, the camera was shaking and it gave the illusion you were on the plane with them -mis-en-scene-) but other times when the camera was shaky it just made the viewer dizzy. This was a very feminist movie, with many sexual references throughout it. I mean there were sexual references put into every thought of this movie, even down to the characters names! I mean really "Merkin Muffley" Merkin meaning a female pubic wig, and Muff is just another name for public hair. They were basically calling their president a vagina! I got a slight over all message through the movie of the corruption in our government at the time, and how Kubric wanted to make a mockery of it. Some parts of the film had great comic relief, but i didn't understand much of it. Over all- wasn't a huge fan. It was good, but not great.