Over-hyped

Rating: 4/10 (7 August 2006)

I was so shocked to see this movie is in the top 250. Yes Peter Sellers is awesome, and yes, Stanley Kubrick is a genius, but this movie hardly reflects that. It's so easy to mock the '50s that one can hardly be too amused by the jokes. Also, while the image of the cowboy pilot riding the bomb has become a cultural icon, it's pretty stupid when you think about it and it's so predictable when you watch the movie that it can really be all that funny. This is simply a precursor to Chevy Chase movies, where everything goes wrong all the time and even though the viewer knows that it's still somehow supposed to be funny. Ignore Kubric's and Sellers' names for a minute and you'll realize that this isn't really that great.