rcmaine Can't believe all the hate for this movie. I thought it was hilarious. It just seems that most of the vitriol spewed about it comes from those expecting something that this movie isn't, and was never intended to be. It is a lighthearted slapstick comedy that is not made for analyzing to the nth degree.Lighten up Francis

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".

jmillerdp Apparently, Spielberg and Zemeckis think it's hilarious! to have a "comedy" mocking Californians who would understandably be scared after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.Would Spielberg think that it would also have been hilarious! to have a comedy mocking New Yorkers who were understandably scared after the Muslim attacks of 9/11?As out of it as Spielberg is, I am guessing so. Many of his fellow Jews ranged from confused to horrified when he used Nazis as cartoon villains in the Indiana Jones movies.Maybe "Schindler's List" was Spielberg's way of trying to regain credibility among his fellow Jews. But, here with "1941," he's clearly oblivious.** (2 Out of 10 Stars)

gavin6942 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.