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This movie has a great cast: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, John Stack and great director, Steven Speilberg. It should have been lots of fun and hilarious, but it wasn't.
Basically, it's about the defense of California after Pearl Harbour, but it's played out as a comedy of errors for all concerned including the Japs.
Yes, there are some great fight scenes especially between the army and the navy, but the comedic scenes are few and far behind. The scenes and gags are stretched out far longer than they should be.
Speilberg tried to make the most of of comedy sketch that should have lasted 15 minutes. The movie runs for 2 hours and a half.
The film has lots of action in it and lots of goofy bits. It's worth a look because there are a few good laughs here and there. There's dumb, dumber and dumbest. This will be the dumbest war movie you will ever see.
St Johns