overrated?

Rating: Null/10 (8 January 2002)

Since the baby-boomer media regards this mediocre movie from their anti-Vietnam War salad days so highly I was going to say it was overrated, but judging by the many negative reviews here it seems that much of the public realizes that the emperor has no clothes. It simply isn't all that funny, pretty boring in many stretches, and as an anti-war statement is actually kinda lame. Remember that MASH isn't really about Korea. It's about Vietnam, similar to other movies of the time like Catch-22 and Kelly's Heroes that were set in WWII but were really comments on the Vietnam experience. Maybe in being a nearly incoherent mess of random events strung together MASH does indeed resemble the Vietnam experience, but as a movie it is lacking. If you are looking for a comedy, a black comedy, an anti-war movie, an anti-war comedy, or whatever MASH is supposed to be, you can do a lot better than this one. See it for historical curiosity only.