One of the best World War II comedies with great tongue in cheek acting by Clint Eastwood, Donald Sutherland and Telly Savalas (Kojak).

Rating: 8/10 (15 January 2019)

One of the best war comedies out there. War aint suppose to be fun to watch, but heck they a made a zillion comedies about it and "Kelly's Heroes" is one of the most charming. So if you wanna enjoy a war movie, this is your best pick. Suited for young and old, because it is a family kinda war film if there ever is such a label. I saw it as a kid and enjoyed as much when being an adult.
The story is quite simple, a small group of American G.I.'s are fed up with being shot to pieces in Europe during World War II while being underpaid, so they decide to try to steal gold from the nazis, to up their salary a bit. How crazy everthing gets after this small group of deserting GI's plan to attack the nazi's single handedly is the fun and charming part of this hilarious story.
They used a French town which had to be partly demolished anyway for the final glorious combat scenes. No CGI, because this was the seventies dude! Therefore many, many great explosions in which REAL buildings get vaporized, can be enjoyed! Although some of the explosions are quite silly as well. Mind you we are talking about the early seventies here in which fake blood was actually ketchup and didnt look convincing whatsoever. But this all adds to the fun spirit of this war comedy in which nothing has to be taken seriously.