
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, Lorraine Gary, Bobby Di Cicco, Murry Hamilton, Christopher Lee, Tim Matheson, Toshiro Mifune, Warren Oates, Robert Stack, Treat Williams, Nancy Allen, John Candy, Elisha Cook Jr, Eddie Deezen, Dianne Kay, Perry Lang, Patti LuPone, Frank McRae, SLIM PICKENS, Wendie Jo Sperber, Lionel Stander, Dub Taylor, Joe Flaherty, Michael McKean, Samuel Fuller, John Landis, Dick Miller, Mickey Rourke, Penny Marshall, James Caan (as an extra)
More Info: IMDB
Tagline: A Comedy Spectacular!
Plot: Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor.
My Rating: 9/10 so eat it all you 1941 haters!
Would I watch it again? YES YES YES YES YES YES YES (1,941 times)
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SIDE NOTE: On 10/1/07 I started keeping track of every movie I've watched from that day forward and I've finally gotten to my 300th movie review. I STILL have a stack of 30 movies I've watched that I'm behind on but I thought I'd pick out a great one from that stack for the 300th review before I continue.
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I don't get it. I just...don't...get it. I've been in love with this picture since I first saw it as a kid. It's fucking hysterical!!! I laugh so hard my face hurts. Yet, it's considered by just about everyone to be Spielberg's worst film!?!?! HELLO? Have you seen HOOK (1991)? JURASSIC PARK 2 (1997)? WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005)? ARRRRGH! I'm going to get so pissed I'm gonna cry. Like scientists, I'm baffled at how so many people just don't get it.
It's got a tremendous cast, the characters are all unique and riotous, the situations are fun as hell, the special effects and model work is absolutely amazing, the look and feel give you a great sense of time and place, it's got one of John Williams' best scores, his Swing, Swing, Swing tune for the dance hall riot is one of the best ever, it's loaded with references to earlier Spielberg films without being cheap in-jokes, there's a payoff for every joke set-up and this is a film that proves without a shadow of a doubt that SLIM PICKENS SHOULD BE IN EVERY MOVIE!
So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going through the movie and pull out a gazillion of my favorite scenes and lines. Naturally, it can't be all of them. Enjoy. Or, if you're like some, hate it and if you do, I'd like to know your reasons why.
Dub Taylor: Jitterbug? Hell, that reminds me. Kill them cockroaches back there in that flour sack.
Slim Pickens: I'm right here.
Ronnie McMillan: Yeah, but those Japs are sneaky bastards, sir. You never know...
Warren Oates: You're right. Check 'im for stilts.
Crowd: Yeah!
Dan Aykroyd: D'ya think the Japanese believe in Santy Claus?
Crowd: NO!
Dan Aykroyd: Well instead of turkey for your Christmas dinner, how would ya like to have raw fish heads and rice?
Crowd: NO!
Dan Aykroyd: D'ya think the Krauts believe in Walt Disney?
Crowd: Yeah!
Dan Aykroyd: Yeah? Well, was that Mickey Mouse I saw blitzkriegin' across France?
Crowd: NO!
Dan Aykroyd: Pluto in Poland?
Crowd: NO!
Dan Aykroyd: Or Donald Duck at Pearl Harbor?
Crowd: NO!
Dan Aykroyd: This time we free the world or we lose it! This time we win or we die trying!
John Belushi: Nah, wooden japs, cheeto, whaddaya think?
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