1941

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Tom B Spielberg farce. Goofy but has some memorable scenes. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/05/24 Full Review Blu B So yeah it's bad. As bad as it's reputation would have you believe. Easily Spielberg's worst thing. The pacing is just atrocious and nonstop off the walls all out assault on your senses. It NEVER stops with the stupid loud nonsense. It's like the 93' Super Mario Bros Movie in that sense. The music is good and the one saving grace of this. It's that classic Speilberg sounding tone and it works well. The cinematography is fustrating because you see solid special effects, tons of production value, an all star cast, good direction at times, but the actual actions and gags going on are ridiculous and so bad. It isn't good at all unfortunately. Everything else though is just bad. The jokes are just nonstop nonsense, terrible slapstick that NEVER STOPS. This has no clever setups in the slightest and WAY too many characters. It jumps around so much between different plot lines it's hard to keep up and half the time I don't even know. It jumps around as bad as a bad disaster movie does with stock throwaway characters. The stupid brawl that drags on for like 15 minutes is the crowning acheivement of nonsense. This needed to take it's time setting up a clever plot, less characters, and just tone it down with the nonsense. Skip This. I see why Spielberg never does comedies now. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/30/25 Full Review Matt W This is one of my guilty pleasure movies. It's gets crapped on a lot, even by Speilberg, but I love it. I've seen it so many times and find it so funny. It's so silly and slap stick, I think it's one of the funniest movies of it's time. Belushi is so over the top. So is all the cast. It's just a fun movie. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/20/24 Full Review Cole R This movie was absolutely hilarious! There were some inappropriate jokes that weren’t suitable for children but overall the movie was great! Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 10/14/24 Full Review Audience Member All sequences perspire bad taste. So cringe. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/03/24 Full Review Jacob B One of Steven Spielberg's weaker movies, if not his weakest, 1941 isn't really that bad in my opinion. It arguably for me leans more towards the "least good" side of okay. I'd probably settle more towards bad by Spielberg standards but, when judged on its own merits, a passable WWII-set comedy. The film is rather hammy, most of the film felt like a never-ending climax and Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale's script satirising wartime paranoia feels like they were still trying to find their feet, which they eventually would once they got the chance to make Back to the Future. I agree with Spielberg's views on the film that the issues he had it stemmed less from outright hating it but feeling that it wasn't funny enough. Indeed, the Indiana Jones movies were arguably funnier than this pure comedy that sticks out like a sore thumb due to otherwise being in the midst of a winning streak after Jaws. But I didn't hate this film. The actors are all doing their best with some of them even seeming to be having fun, there are a couple of jokes that work, it has one of John Williams' more underrated scores, most of the characters are likeable and once the insanity begins, I can't deny that I was having fun. Seriously, the visual effects were insane and elevated by Spielberg's direction. I don't think a more hacky director could've helped bring the two Bobs' script to life as effectively as he did here. The Blues Brothers had more glorious property damage though, but this came out first so I'm willing to cut it some slack. Though the best scene in the film was a dance battle set just before the craziness begins thanks to genuinely solid choreography and comedic timing. Hey, the film can't be that bad if even detractors admit to liking this scene. 1941 is far from Spielberg's best, even if we're only taking his popcorn-friendly projects into account, but it's still far from boring and definitely a memorable film in its own right. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 04/19/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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