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Rating: Null/10 (2 December 2004)

This is one of the worst war movies I've ever seen, not to say one of the worst comedies. (Worst than The Great Escape, which was an insult to the poor fellows who had to endure the Nazi prison camps). Hollywood, until Band of Brothers, has always been incapable of making a realistic WW2 movie, with some exceptions like Stalag 17, and of course Schindler's List, despite some of its Hollywood manners -money talks-). Germans, in Hollywood movies, are always dumb and stupid, ridicule and cruel, and war itself is seen as of some kind of a computer game. To say, as some did in these reviews, that this is a good movie, you have to be no more than 13, and seen nothing yet in serious movies.
It has only one real thing going for it: looting, raping, robbing and indulging in the pleasure of killing fellow humans, has always been the big incentive for recruiting soldiers. War is pure hell and Americans had a taste of it in 9/11. But for Hollywood nothing is sacred, and no theme is sweet enough to satisfy the taste of the public for sugared food. Reading the vast positive reviews of this film made me uncomfortable, since it gives Hollywood a go-ahead in this kind of work. Sure, someday there will be a Hollywood comedy about 9/11, which the public, like in this movie, will find great and one of the best ever made!
No more than a 4. (I'd have given a 2, but because Donald and Telly did the entire acting job, I raise it to four. Sorry if my review offends the vast majority of you, cinéphiles.)