Synopsis
Paranoia meets pandemonium.
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.
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1941
Cast
Dan Aykroyd Ned Beatty John Belushi Lorraine Gary Murray Hamilton Christopher Lee Tim Matheson Toshirō Mifune Warren Oates Robert Stack Treat Williams Nancy Allen Lucille Benson Jordan Brian John Candy Elisha Cook Jr. Eddie Deezen Bobby Di Cicco Dianne Kay Perry Lang Patti LuPone J. Patrick McNamara Frank McRae Steven Mond Slim Pickens Wendie Jo Sperber Lionel Stander Dub Taylor Iggie Wolfington Show All…
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Donald Myers Thomas Arp Arthur Arp Eugene Crum Steve Galich Ted Koerner Wilbur Arp Kevin Pike Gary Monak Logan Frazee Steve Lombardi Billy Myatt Marlin Jones Joe Zomar Ken Estes Terry D. Frazee
Visual Effects
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Tony Epper Terry Leonard Jeannie Epper Loren Janes Eurlyne Epper Larry Holt Gary McLarty Jack Gill Debbie Evans Bob Herron Mary Peters
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Chris Jenkins Robert Glass Fred J. Brown Gene S. Cantamessa Don MacDougall Robert 'Buzz' Knudson Lee Strosnider
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Alternative Titles
1941 (Director's Cut), The Night the Japs Attacked, 1941 - Wo bitte geht's nach Hollywood, 1941 - Allarme a Hollywood, 1941 - ursäkta var är Hollywood?, Meztelenek és bolondok, 1941... Από Πού Πάνε στο Χόλιγουντ, Παρακαλώ;, 1941 - Ano Louco em Hollywood, 1941 - הפלישה להוליווד, 1941: Uma Guerra Muito Louca, 1941 Çılgın Dünya, 一九四一, Undskyld, hvor ligger Hollywood?, 1941-ва, ยุ่นแย็บแยงกี้
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Los Angeles, California
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14 Dec 1979
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22 Feb 1980
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12 Mar 1980
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FranceU
14 Mar 1980
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27 Mar 1980
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31 Mar 1980
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SpainAPTA
24 May 1980
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21 Jul 1980
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Brazil12
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17 Oct 2009
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23 Mar 1999
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07 Jan 2003
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05 May 2015
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Austria
17 Oct 2009
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21 Jul 1980
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France
12 Mar 1980
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27 Mar 1980
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Greece
24 May 1980
- Theatrical12
Italy
22 Feb 1980
- Theatrical
Spain
14 Mar 1980
- TheatricalAPTA
31 Mar 1980
- TheatricalAPTA Barcelona
UK
14 Dec 1979
- Theatrical12
USA
13 Dec 1979
- PremierePG Los Angeles, California
14 Dec 1979
- TheatricalPG
23 Mar 1999
- PhysicalNR DVD Release
07 Jan 2003
- PhysicalPG DVD Release
05 May 2015
- PhysicalPG Blu-Ray Release
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I feel like it's usually really reductive to say "that's two hours of my life I'm never gonna get back" about a movie
But like
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A useful reminder that even the best artists are capable of producing disasters under the right conditions.
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Spielberg was one of the relative few I expected to be mostly consensus on, but revisiting this one completely blindsided me - the quote from Kubrick to Spielberg saying that the film should have been marketed as a drama is very perceptive, because as many have noted the film really isn't *that* funny (unless you have as genuinely deranged a sense of humour as Spielberg himself - which I can't necessarily deny) because for all the absurdity it's hard not to be cogent that this is likely how many average Americans actually behaved in the year 1941, and as such you can imagine why some people found it offensive. And in that sense it's actually kind of mean spirited given…
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"It's gonna be a long war."
Spielberg's insanely bloated live action Looney Tune, a seemingly endless cacophony, as if "funniest" translated to "containing the most ostensibly comedic things". the determinedly exuberant tone feels entirely manufactured. but, almost exactly because of that, wow what a sharp, ugly, eerily prescient portrait of jingoistic hysteria immediately following a devastating terrorist attack.
also contains some of the most amazing miniature sequences i've ever seen.
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Note: This is a review of the extended version
Long considered a big bomb for big time director Steven Spielberg, Universal has just released a new blu-ray edition that may change peoples minds. Definitely worthy of a revisit, 1941 is a star packed screwball comedy about California types worried Japan is going to attack the mainland. There's a reason for that, the Japanese are off California's coast in a sub looking to destroy Hollywood. Lots of familiar faces pop up in here including Slim Pickens who plays Hollis Wood, a Christmas tree farmer. Pickens has some very funny scenes. Of course, it wouldn't be a late 70's/early 80's movie without Eddie Deezen. Tim Matheson is a serviceman who cannot fly…
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Spielberg goes Robert Zemeckis and John Landis mode and delivers a very strange, exhausting, and bombastic Hollywood analog cartoon object in service of juvenile American excess and jingoistic hysteria. As far as the actual content of its wartime satire goes this ranges from passively amusing "what a mess!" mayhem to pure conservative boomer fantasy nonsense (something he has in his own movies sometimes but so pronounced here I have to imagine that's some Milius' music I'm hearing), and Spielberg has a machinelike approach to gags that kinda prevents this from having the fully spontaneous freewheeling chaos it thinks it has. So I completely get anyone just stone-faced checking out but still... What a mess! You know? And the sheer technical commitment to it. Can't help but be a little impressed even during the annoying parts.
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I've watched 1941 so you don't have to.
Spielbergs notoriously unfunny war 'comedy' aims for one gag every other second - which at just shy of 120 minutes is about 3,500 gags.
I laughed two times. More of a 'hur' than a laugh when I think about it.
People slip, trip, honk, scratch, shout, shoot, flirt, squeak and fight and none of it makes any sense and none of it is at all funny. It's an overblown try-hard. For a film to squeeze no comedy out of John Belushi, John Candy or Dan Aykroyd is clearly doing something very wrong. BUT.
It looks great: Spielberg is clearly revelling in the excess of a bigger budget, but it just makes the…
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Drawing influence from disaster movies, ensemble epics, and any number of WWII pictures, 1941 is more ambitious in scope and scale than most films ever dare to be. I would not call it a success—maybe 20% of its anarchic antics elicited laughter from me, and that’s a pretty low batting average for what is ostensibly a comedy—but in spite of that, I spent much of its bloated running time with a different kind of smile on my face, gazing upon one of Hollywood’s ultimate “blank check” projects, admiring how fully Spielberg committed to the grandeur of its Panavision photography and to the chaos of its practical effects. It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad war, and if nothing else, the production captures that spirit.
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In which Steven Spielberg uses all of his Jaws/Close Encounters clout to unleash Gale/Zemeckis into unsuspecting America (or at least a version of Preminger's In Harm's Way, sort of). I get why people often dislike this one, given that it is not consistent funny enough, but Zemeckis/Gale script (with an assist from John Millius, a different type of right wing anarchist) central concept of WWII saving US from its own boredom has a good mix of distasteful and sharp satire that serves rather well as a chorus to Spielberg's perfectly choreography series of destructions. This often gets compared to It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, but the film it truly resembles is Landis' The Blues Brothers which come out…
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This has not been honorable...
-Colonel Akiro MitamuraIt's Steven Spielberg! There's no way this film can be as bad as people say! He made this smack dab in the middle of Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T.! People are probably just unfairly comparing it to those films and it just doesn't measure up. I mean it's Spielberg! Late 70s/Early 80s Spielberg! It can't possibly be THAT bad!
It is though... it really is. I watched in awe as one joke would seemingly take so long to set up that by the time the punchline finally came you had actually already guessed it about 15 minutes earlier. It's not only one joke…
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Impressively unfunny. Could’ve been a slam dunk of a movie for me: absurdist and slapstick comedy, so many great and funny actors, John Williams score, written by the Back to the Future guys, directed by Speilberg, they even blowup a gas station in this movie. One of my absolute favorite scenes in a comedy film is when they destroy that gas station in It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, it’s so EASY for me to laugh at the destruction of a gas station! But nope! I don’t know if it was the pacing or the editing or the lack of balance in the writing. The movie wants to be flat out absurd but it’s too chicken shit to go…
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