Review of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) by Harry W — 29 Aug 2012

While it had good moments of humor, I would necessarily call this a hilarious movie. I'd call it clever. I'd call it one of, if not the most clever satirical films ever made.

Stanley Kubrick's satire film Dr Strangelove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb is so incredibly clever in the way it deals with themes of the cold war and nuclear weapons development that it teaches a good lesson with a few lays along the way. The whole movie is displays the war as black-and-white, and that's symbolized by the films colour itself.

The several clever twists and blunders displayed by the military expose the several arising complications in the situation and Stanley Kubrick enhances the satire of it perfectly. It's slow at parts, but it's incredibly genius right down to the climactic hilarity of Major Kong being a rodeo cowboy.

Peter Sellers' several character performances are so clever, so believable that you'd be surprised at they are all the same actor when in the end they are so different that you'd believe Stanley Kubrick lined up several Oscar worthy actors and gave them each a role, but in the end they were all Peter Sellers. Wow, this was just so clever.