A massive, spectacular, all-star, notoriously big-budgeted slapstick comedy in the IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD vein, 1941 is loaded with slam-bang sight gags and action, but comedy isn't director Steven Spielberg's forte and the movie isn't nearly as funny as it might have been.
Taken from an inspired script by Robert Zemeckis (who went on to direct BACK TO THE FUTURE and WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT), Bob Gale, and John Milius, 1941 is very loosely based on a real event that came to be known as the "Great Los Angeles Air Raid" and occurred on February 26, 1942, as mass
hysteria broke out in southern California after a Japanese submarine was spotted off Santa Barbar...
Released:
1979
Rated:
PG
Length:
118 mins