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1941

1979

Steven Spielberg

John Belushi, Bobby Di Cicco, Tim Matheson, Dianne Kay ...

5.5

5,473

Comedy. War It's been six days since the attack on Pearl Harbor. Panic grips California, supposedly the next target of the Japanese forces. Everywhere in California, people are suffering from war nerves. Chaos erupts all over the state. An Army Air Corps Captain, a civilian with a deranged sense of Nationalism, civilian defenders, and a Motor Pool crew all end up on the trail of a lost Japanese sub that has picked Hollywood as their own target. ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Variety	"Long on spectacle, but short on comedy."	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie relentlessly throws gags at us until we're dizzy (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"A dazzling film with an all-star cast."	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"Unfunny but amiable Spielberg misfire (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"Among the pleasures of the film are John Belushi (...) Everything is too big (...) '1941' is less comic than cumbersome"	NEU
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"Many stars (...) make appearances, but it's of little use (...) [It] should be avoided by all but the morbidly curious."	NEG
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"One feels that Spielberg was concentrating his powers so much on the mechanics of timing, cause and effect, that he forgot that what makes the best comedies funny is human reaction."	NEU
United States	Bilge Ebiri Rolling Stone	"When you aim for belly laughs and the best you can get is an occasional chuckle, that's considered a failure"	NEG
United States	IGN	"'1941' is not a good movie in any way (...) Awful"	NEG

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