1970 may have been the best year ever for war movies

Rating: 10/10 (8 May 2006)

With the Vietnam War in full swing in 1970, it seems that the movie studios wanted a way to play previous wars for laughs, if darkly. That year saw the releases of "Catch-22", "MASH" and "Kelly's Heroes". The last one has an American platoon looking for Nazi gold during WWII. The only thing is, this is the most whacked-out platoon ever! Pvt. Kelly (Clint Eastwood) may be pretty normal, but Sgt. Oddball (Donald Sutherland) is a proto-hippie! And the rest of the guys (Telly Savalas, Don Rickles and Carroll O'Connor (right before he started playing Archie Bunker)) aren't your average soldiers either.
All in all, this is a really funny movie. Obviously, we've all got to come up with ways to maintain our sanity in war, but there's nothing like how these guys do it! And it's weird to think that the movie was filmed in Yugoslavia, after all that happened there in the '90s.