Cool and the Gang

Rating: Null/10 (17 November 2001)

This delightful movie is an actor's showroom of sort, tailor-made for the people entertainment all around. Maybe this is it's main aspect. It's not merely a matter of production values, but that this is (as much as, for instance, "The Magnificent Seven'), a quintessence among the actors-driven movies. What would 'The Great Escape' be without Steve McQueen and his gang: Coburn, Bronson, Attenborough, Garner, Pleasance, all of them people we love to see? Continuity mistakes happens one after another, and are painful for the viewer's eye, but what the heck! Taking good advantage of this cast, very rarely possible, John Sturges was wise enough to just sewing up a fair entertaining movie to the audiences all around, reality to hell! It was just a matter of presenting Cool and his Gang and let them do the show, you know the formula, don't you? So far, that even the nazis in this movie are Nice Guys too, believe it or not! The gentle, afable Kommander, the Good Old Werner, all of them nice chaps who wouldn't spoil the party, would they? Nice weather, good lodgings, drawing classes...it's quite a Summer Camp, let's have fun, folks! Let's drink some potato beer, let's have music and a funny parade with flute and drums, there are a few instruments in that closet, I guess? If only it was in 2001, we should have Internet here in the camp, why not? Is there any combo available? And guys, you must see what I did in the war with a motorcycle! Gee... you won't believe me, folks, but I tell you there was a fence every bit ready for a wonderful tongue-in-cheek jump over there - mind you! - JUST in the point where the enemy was cornering me! Hey, anybody there called me a liar?