Highly Overrated But Still Good

A lot of fun.

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Movie Review: "1941" (1979)After fulminate successes with the U.S. domestic audiences in summer 1975 "Jaws" and in holiday season of 1977/1978 with "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" starring Richard Dreyfuss and François Roland Truffaut, Director Steven Spielberg creates an even bigger version of an ensemble cast but in the end an too episodic movie of 115 minutes following U.S. military related officers and soldiers in the week after the "Pearl Harbor" attack on December 7th 1941, when screenwriter Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale, later to hit with "Back To The Future" (1985), ingnite motion picture fireworks for a fading audience by the shear overwhelming fullness of state of the art visual effect sequences in the technically-finest reception of second unit miniature sound-stage photography with fairground wonderwheels rolling into the open sea, kamikaze combat jets attacking night exterior main street sights and actor James Belushi (1949-1982), acting full frontal to real-life drug over-dosages on a daily basis as Kamikaze-mimicking Captain "Wild Bill" Keslo and close friend Dan Aykroyd, as Sergeant Frank Tree keeping his privates in party-moods of a sure closing-in crisis, where every twists and plot point get pushed to upside of 1950s "Abbott & Costello" slapstick, making "1941" highest risk-taking movie adventure to this day because it indulges a full set of anarchy with a 35-Million-Dollar production orchestrated by exceptional action-producer Buzz Feitshans, risking a fortune with near every production he had been encountering from "Conan, the Barbarian" (1982) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger to "Die Hard With A Vengeance" (1995) starring Bruce Willis.The production of "1941" directed by Steven Spielberg at the age of 32 fully given creative freedom despite a theater-striking 90-Minutes final cut clause at his exclusive Universal Picture contract in favors for a single Hollywood studio consortium between Universal Studios and Columbia Pictures, who must have been heart-broken when an ideal X-Mas 1979 release featuring international stars from Christopher Lee (1922-2015), Toshiro Mifune (1920-1997), U.S. American export John Candy (1950-1994) and many more from Nancy Allen to Treat Williams, all getting a shot bring this genre-mix of a war-action-comedy picture to flourishment, which to this day hardly connects with any major audience, but nevertheless worth to be discovered as a hidden Spielberg experimental gem before the big pictures in the 1980s arrive.Copyright 2018 Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC

I just love this movie so many great scenes with so many classic actors... I am not sure why this great movie is so underrated & so unappreciated it is truly one of the greatest movies to come out of 1979 as I consider it one of the greatest comedies of the 80's & of all time...Just look at some of the individual scenes on their own...The great Jaws opening spoof... John Belushi is incredible with both of his characters...Dan Aykroyd and John Candy fantastic especially later in the tank scene...Timothy Stack, Treat Williams, and Nancy Williams all great...Warren Oats and Robert Stack both great...Every scene with Slim Pickens just classic the Submarine scenes some of the best pure gut laughter the spoof of Dr. Strangelove great stuff...And the dummy just hilarious my god the dummies right...If you don't laugh at this wonderful film you are dead inside...Steven deserves some recognition for this well directed film!!!

This movie is so ridiculous it's fun. Seen it many years ago, and it's still fun to watch, like Airplane, Cannonball Run and Blazing Saddles. They just don't make racy movies like this anymore, with exception to Django Unchained. It takes place just after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Californians are worried about an attack on the west coast by the Japanese. So everyone comes to arms to defend the West coast. Including local folk, the armed forces, and everyone inbetween. John Belushi is hilarious as the crazy fighter pilot who is tracking a Japanese fighter group who has supposedly set up a base in California. Dan Akroyd plays a devote army fighter uniting all the different service units to fight the enemy and not fight each other. There's a love story in there too. Lot's of chaos. Lot's of action. Lot's of funny, as peeps deal with the idea of Japan invading America. It's a fun film.

Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor.Can you believe this cast? Robert Stack (in excellent makeup), John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Candy, Christopher Lee, John Landis, Dick Miller, Nancy Allen, Eddie Deezen, Joe Flaherty and the list goes on. Even if this was not a good film (and it is) you should check it out to see a performance from some great actors.While the humor is relatively low (Kubrick allegedly called the film "great but not funny"), there are some nice moments featuring parodies of previous Spielberg films "Duel" and "Jaws". Great sense of humor, Mr. Spielberg.Today, the Zoot Suit Riot is probably best known as a song from Cherry Popping' Daddies. But it really occurred, and it has never looked better in fiction than it does in this film with a wonderfully long dance and fight sequence that is the centerpiece of the whole film.