There's a bunch of good bits, but they just don't quite mix.

Famously and rightfully known as a failure, but it's a bizarre and ambitious enough one that I'd recommend giving it a watch for sheer novelty value, particularly if you're a Spielberg fan. This is a WEIRD movie and I've seen no others quite like it. I also had no idea Christopher Lee and Toshiro Mifune were in this until I watched it, which was a nice surprise. Shame one of Mifune's only (or is it his only?) western movies couldn't be, well, better.

Ultimately fails as a comedy and a war film. I still own it so occasionally I can pop it in and wonder what exactly was going on.

Pretty humorous, but at 2 1/2 hours it's overly long for a comedy. The ensemble cast is so large that it's sometimes hard to keep track of the subplots. Probably my favorite scenes involve Slim Pickens being interrogated by Japanese submariners, and I was disappointed when he suddenly disappeared halfway through the movie. After the first hour or so the film starts to overstay its welcome, morphing from a satirical spoof comedy to a semi-serious war movie with occasional slapstick thrown in.

A guilty pleasure, this one's neither particularly funny or thrilling. Just loud, fast and hyper. Kind of like eating cotton candy and washing it down with Mountain Dew.

There is famous actors doing slapstick, very expensive explosions and things being destroyed left, right and centre, but very few laughs. All sound and fury, signifying nothing...although seeing Toshirô Mifune and Christopher Lee continually bickering in a submarine was worth an extra point.

44.625

Bizarre movie; almost didn't believe it was by Spielberg until the ending credits hit. On that note, seeing Mifune's name on there shocked the hell outta me. Cool. Doesn't have a ton of laughs, but it's weird enough to be worth a watch.

Good, underrated comedy, but it felt a bit long.

Score based on distant memory.

A cult classic.

It's damn fractured, but very funny. Maybe a recent rewatch would tell me otherwise, but I had fond memories of it.

1941 is never as good as you remember, but never as bad as it could be. It's odd to see Steve Speilberg directing a comedy with an All-Star cast, but you laugh and laugh throughout this movie.