Irrelevant, this surgeon platoon may be...

Rating: 7/10 (15 June 2020)

What made M*A*S*H something to watch is its irrelevant caracters not being serious in the camp while war is all around. Poking fun of everything and not taking life seriously between surgical interventions of wounded soldiers...
Sex jokes, homosexuality, insanity, breach of military discipline, pranks are all on the menu here. Things that would come back in the successful TV series that would ran on for 11 years.
However, about this movie, it's like 4 or 5 TV episodes patched, all centered first on Hawkeye Pierce and his buddy Trapper John, as well as Duke, Radar, Father John, Dish, Hot Lips (my God, she did not like the nickname at first...), Blake and Major Burns. Well written for its time, but with the years, got improved.
Altman made a good one here, even it the US Army was not keen to be represented as dirty here...
But watch it for the fun, not the classic... and hum the song afterwards...