Review of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) by Niels T — 02 Nov 2012
Hasn't this movie got the best ending? Second of all: Stanley Kubrick shows us here how you put the blender on two themes as far away as...I don't know...let's be crazy and say Slapstick comedy and nuclear bombings in the cold war.
The movie has in his mind: first laugh, than think. And this is one of Hollywood's finest laughs indeed, combining remarkable punch-lines with creative editing. This movie has a slapstick rhythm, which is amazing.
The extremely caricatured characters in this film are not annoyingly funny as you sometimes see in other movies - but how could it be, it's a Kubrick movie. True too, they are critical personifications of countries.
It's these characters, such as Dr. Merkwà 1/4rdigliebe/Strangelove and General Buck Turgidson, that make the movie. To implant a "Mein Fà 1/4hrer"-tic, is a great exciter of laughter, but also brings World War II within this movies thinking, and every idea complemented with it.
And the movie is full of this. Funny, critical, everything else.
This review of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) was written by Niels T on 02 Nov 2012.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb has generally received very positive reviews.
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