Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

jodyfranz I like funny stupid movies, Dumb and Dumber, Something About Mary, Animal House to name a few. This movie just missed the mark on all the it's jokes. Things that should have been more goofy were too serious (aka Treat Williams as a total rapist psycho, somehow that was supposed to be funny?)I wanted to like this movie since it was Speilberg's first attempt at comedy but it is pretty bad and even though I read the previous reviews and heard all about how it stunk I still gave it a shot. It wasn't worth it. There are other way funnier stupid movies out there to spend your time on. Your not missing anything by not watching this one.

ashishagupta 1941 is excellent comedy. It is funny, if you understand the references to social, cultural, and political statements disguised as a screwball comedy. There are also several references to other famous movies here. Like any allegory, the true narrative is buried under the depicted story and therefore the movie cannot be viewed literally.1941 is a big budget movie with a stellar cast of comedy heavy hitters. For fans of Beluschi, Candy, Akroyd, and many more, you can't go wrong with this movie.The overt story is set in and around the city of Los Angeles in California, shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941. The backdrop of public hysteria due to fear of an impending Imperial Japanese attack on mainland US is used to set the stage for over-the-top farce. The implicit story is really just a narrative of cultural and social perceptions in US.The movie has several political statements to make. Watching the movie should be a fun Easter egg hunt for these references. The speech by Dan Akroyd's character on top of the tank is priceless. Whenever hysteria grips the national imagination, this speech rings true. There are numerous mentions of race relations through out the movie.For those watching this movie, like me in 2017, will likely instantaneously recognize the prescience of this movie in its uncanny similarity to the Donald Trump administration. It is incredibly hilarious to watch Akroy'd character wrongly mention '... now lets get those Nazis' instead of saying Japanese and then watching Donald Trump in news saying, '... I sent those Tomahawk cruise missiles to Iraq' instead of saying Syria.This movie is excellent catharsis for Americans experiencing a world with Trump administration. There is another dialogue on this: Pvt. Foley: Isn't this the same fool we saw earlier this morning? Sgt. Frank Tree: Yes, but he is wearing the stripes now. So he is in command.Incredibly and unbelievably, real life in 2017 has reached the dizzying levels of this farcical movie.I could go on with the list of great jokes in this movie, but it would be best if you watched it. Comedy fans will not be disappointed.

ejonconrad I remember really looking forward to this movie when it came out. It was hyped like crazy and it starred pretty much everyone I thought was funny at the time. I also remember sitting there trying to will myself to laugh as it sunk in what a terrible movie it was.I recently re-watched it, and it's even worse than I remembered, because even the stuff that was mildly entertaining 40 years ago hasn't aged well.Where to start? One word: cocaine. That's the only thing that can possibly explain the frenetic misfire that is this movie. First of all, there's an absurd number of characters in an absurd number of subplots. On top of that, the subplots have bizarre details thrown in. For example, Treat Williams' "hilarious rapist" (rape is funny, right?) character has a weird phobia of eggs. What does this have to do with anything? Absolutely nothing.The movie relies excessively on Three Stooges-style spit takes and prat falls. There's also a lot of screaming: "Japs!", "Invasion!", "Someone help! (this guy is trying to rape me)".This time, I watched the extended version, and even at 2 1/2 hours (!!), it seemed like a lot of stuff was left out. A couple of the threads are wrung out in excruciating details while others seem to have missing chunks. There's a big build up to Warren Oats' appearance, but then it just comes and goes. Did he have more scenes on the cutting room floor? One guy has a ventriloquist's dummy for....some reason. Did they plan to do something more with it? like, something funny? How exactly did John Belushi end up flying around alone "looking for Japs"? So much of the humor is badly misplaced. I mentioned the attempted rape. We're not talking Brutus chasing Olive oil. We're talking Treat Williams dragging a woman under a car as she screams for help - and this is basically played for laughs, with another woman disappointed he's not trying to rape her. Also, the big fight is clearly supposed to be the zoot suit riots (which actually happened in 1943). There was absolutely nothing funny about those. Soldiers and white civilians were straight up assaulting Mexican-American youths while the authorities looked the other way, or even joined in. A solid half of the movie is devoted to destruction of property. In fact, I'm pretty sure Spielberg started with a list of who he wanted in the move and another list of the things he wanted to destroy and just sort of wrote the movie around them. All this destruction was impressive when the movie was made, but now the whole thing literally looks like a Universal Studios tour.I can't think of another example of this much talent being wasted in a single movie. There was all the hot comic talent at the time: Dan Ackroyd, John Candy, John Belushi, Tim Matheson, etc, and classic stars like Slim Pickens, Christopher Lee, and Japanese star Toshiro Mifune, and lots of other big names at the time, like Nancy Allen and Treat Williams. Not to mention a few characters recycled form Spielberg's other movies. Everyone was tripping over themselves to be in a Spielberg movie. It took real work for that cast of characters to turn in something this awful.Weirdly, John Williams' score is quite good. Too bad it wasn't used for a better movie.

dougdoepke Arguably, the worst A-budget movie ever made. It is to the average movie what a splatter painting is to a Rembrandt. For the same money blown up by these clowns, a hundred decent films could have been made. It's like some nutjob at Paramount gave 35-million to a bunch of 12-year olds and told them to blow it up real good. Except they blew it up real bad. I don't know what this nitroglycerin mess was reaching for, but it's like nothing I've seen in some 65-years of movie watching. Apparently, impresario Spielberg was suffering from a temporary lobotomy, proving I guess that even the best can have periods of blackout. He should be glad there's no law against cinematic crimes like this, otherwise he'd be in the Big House. All in all, the mindless repetition is about as funny as two-hours of world destruction where no one feels pain except the audience. No need to go on. Words, as they say, don't begin to suffice. A Big Fat "O" on a scale where the Three Stooges rate an artistic "10".