Review of 1941 (1941) by Scott C — 10 Jul 2008

Steven Spielberg's mad and wild war comedy, which helped bring down the curtain of the New Hollywood era of the 1970's, but it isn't all bad, you know. This multi-layered film has several different groups of Californian residents, living in and aroun.

..(read more) d Los Angeles, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, preparing themselves for a Japanese invasion, but they only succeed in fighting each other. This is the film that could have killed Spielberg's career, but it didn't, if anything it's a cautionary piece of creative excess gone mad, and compared to mordern comedy's you get today, it's very good.

To it's credit, it's got a good cast, (Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, Christopher Lee, ToshirÃ?Â? Mifune, Warren Oates, Robert Stack, Eddie Deezen, John Candy and Slim Pickens), it's beautifully shot by William A.

Fraker and it features some brilliant special effects that are just as good as those from any other Spielberg film. One in need of a rediscovery...