Love this movie, not the bomb

Rating: 9/10 (7 September 2009)

U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper has lost his mind and plans to attack the Soviet Union with nuclear weapons.That way he hopes to thwart a Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify the precious bodily fluids of the American people with fluoridated water.The U.S. president meets with his advisors, where is also the Soviet ambassador.He tells that if the U.S.S.R. is hit by nuclear weapons, it will trigger a Doomsday Machine which will destroy all plant and animal life on Earth.Peter Sellers is hilarious, all three of them.He's Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffley and Dr.Strangelove.He did ad-lib many of his lines.Slim Pickens is terrific, and also very funny as Major T.J. "King" Kong.Sellers was originally supposed to do his role, also, but he was reluctant fearing he could not get the Texas accent right.And he also sprained his ankle.George C. Scott is terrific as General 'Buck' Turgidson.And Tracy Reed is wonderful as his woman, Miss Scott.Sterling Hayden is great as Brigadier General Jack Ripper.This movie is often very funny.Sellers as president calling the drunken Soviet Premier is one funny scene.Sellers as Mandrake trying to contact the president with a payphone is hilarious.And Wynn's character Guano gets Coca-Cola on his face from the vending machine.Or Sellers doing his Strangelove, the German scientist in a wheelchair.He's a former Nazi whose hand keeps doing the Nazi salute.And him raising to his feet and shouting "Mein Führer, I can walk!"This movie is The ending is, dare I say, beautiful in a scary way.We see images of exploding nuclear explosions and we hear Vera Lynn singing "We'll Meet Again".This movie certainly succeeds in bringing a message and being funny at the same time.