Great farce plus dramatic thriller

Rating: 8/10 (11 December 2009)

Dr. Strangelove or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bombphew is one of those movies that gets so serious, it overloads and becomes funny because the script can't handle it. Like the Graduate and Full Metal Alchemist, it constantly switches between serious moments and funny moments and the two often overlap making this movie a farce. It is a farce on our government and our society and sometimes makes fun of men's use of women as objects rather than human beings. The acting is good, it is silly when necessary to be funny and is serious when necessary to be funny. Peter Sellers is very good in his three parts. He is able to act calmly or over the top depending on the character. Slim Pickins was pretty decent as the leader of the plane drew who had questionable intelligence, as did almost everyone else in the movie. The dark and bright lighting in certain scenes makes the movie feel like a political thriller that contradicts its comedy to make it even funnier like Shawn of the Dead and Darkwing Duck. The sound was well edited and used. This is a great movie overall; it's a good cold war thriller as it is a good farce on the nuclear war scenario.