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Summary: This is one of the best dark comedies ever made!
Review: Kubrick and his cast of lunatics truly out-did themselves with this crazy film. I recieved this video for Christmas from my fiance. We watched it as a joke on New Year's Day 2000. George C. Scott delievers one of the greatest performances of his career with his insane General. The only other Kubrick film that beats this one is A Clockwork Orange. To the true movie fan, it does not get any better than Kubrick.
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Summary: Greenstate Pictures
Review: Stanley Kubrick portrayed his perception of the psychotic, belligerent and ignorant nature of man, morally throughout his films. This is his epitomy and finest masterpiece of this philosophy. And he used the ideals of war, insanity and ignorance to exemplify these as the product of man. And the tools of sardonism and irony are what produce the humor within the dialogue, yet we are only laughing at either ourselves or our lives. Kubrick was clearly anti-war because he knew that war was solely a result of man's instinctive competitiveness and desire to win, and this man left it the burden of innocent, impartial people to fight his battles. And all whom are pro-was bear the same instinct as those who begin wars. Watch the film for its symbolic greatness or watch it for its cinematic and visual powers.
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Summary: Sellers peaks in filmdom's greatest black comedy
Review: This film is a brilliant parable about the dangers of living in the nuclear age. A darkly hilarious story involoving a Air Force general gone mad who orders fighter planes in Russia to drop their bombs and our government's frantic attempt to recall them. Scott is a riot, but it is Sellers who's triad of roles should have garnered him an Oscar.
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Summary: Kubrick and Sellers destroy the world
Review: That says it all, for this movie, except that, despite the rather dark plot, this is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. It took watching it twice, but the dark humor got to me, and I couldn't help but break down at Sellers' display of Dr. Strangelove. George C. Scott and Slim Pickins are also great.
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Summary: It probably _is_ a great movie, if you're over 50...
Review: I loved this when I first saw it, now I'm not so sure. A lot of reviewers have quoted the 'you can't fight in here, this is the war room' line: unfortunatley that's about as subtle and intelligent as the satire gets. Message: BLOWING UP THE WORLD IS A BAD THING. Well, that's profound (not). Is it funny though? Yep. Hence the three stars, depsite the adolescent 1960s politics. And for once the sterile and claustrophobic atmosphere that infects virtually all Kubrick's work fits the film.
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Summary: SIMPLY STATED, GENIUS
Review: Being a huge fan of the "Pink Panther" series, it is not a colosus revalation that I engoyed this film immensely. Peter Sellers demonstrated his comic gift playing the former nazi and the basic protagenist in the film. George C. Scott gave a rib-tickling genaral of the United States weaponry department and could not fit the part any better. The black and white priming gives the film charecter and the story (for the time) was playfully original. Sadly enough the plot is now bare reality. Next time you have a chance please see this classic piece of under-rated ingeniality and you won't be dissappionted.WARNING: Will only seem humorous to the WELL EDUCATED
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Summary: Communist Infiltration and Fluoridation
Review: The period between the mid-1940s and late-1980s was marked with tensions between Communist Russians and Americans. This period, best known as the Cold War, presented both paranoia and communist stereotypes into American Society, as seen in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. American Society was filled with paranoia that a Nuclear War might happen at any time anywhere with the Russians. Both the Russians and Americans were heavily engaged in the nuclear arms race, refusing to have anything less than what the other side had. The Americans built a Hydrogen Bomb, so the Russians had to build one too (and vice versa). Dr. Strangelove depicts this paranoia to the extreme, having an Air Force Commander (General Ripper) order nuclear bombings of a number of Russian Strategic Sites. Regularly the president was the only person in the United States who had the power to order the use of nuclear weapons, but General Ripper exceeded his authority. General Ripper ordered the use of "Plan R," which was only supposed to have been used when the normal chain of command was disrupted by a Russian Sneak Attack. The paranoid General Ripper was motivated to start a Nuclear War by his theory of the fluoridation of water, claiming it was the most dangerous communist plot Americans had to face. His unauthorized use of Plan R was to stop "the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids" -referring to the fluoridation of water. America's anti-Communist expansion ideals spread on to American Society through stereotypes of communists. Russians were labeled as "drunken peons" who will assimilate the world. Dr. Strangelove demonstrates communist stereotypes, depicting Russians as being unable to rise to the occasion during the brink of a global holocaust. The Russian Premier was drunk during a phone conversation with the President of the United States, while the President was trying to caution the Premier of the possible nuclear destructions of several Russian Strategic Sites. After the phone conversation, the Russian Ambassador warns of a Doomsday Device that will automatically trigger itself off at any sign of danger, and cannot be deactivated. The Doomsday Device was designed to deter any enemy from attacking Russia, in fear of a global Doomsday Shroud that would inhabit the earth for nearly 93 years. The device was only good if the world knew about it, but because of the Premier's love for surprise, it was supposed to have been announced on Monday -stereotyping Russian lack of common sense. The Cold War was the practically the most frightening period of time the entire world had to face. Two major world powers, with weapons of mass destruction, on the brink of a Nuclear War sending the world into a Nuclear Winter is a conception that no human would want to imagine. Paranoia and stereotypes are just things we are afraid might be true and might happen, but they are nonetheless the cornerstones in starting a conflict, and the more powerful they are...the more frightening the conflict. But there is no harm in watching it on TV or Movie Theater unfolding in unreal and hilarious circumstances.
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Summary: Great movie
Review: Rent it, buy it.. The DVD I heard has some problems although I own it on DVD and it's fine. Most people who don't think this is funny are probably under the age of 19 and think that burping is an art form. George C Scott is awesome in this film. Mr. Sellers is superb. BUT... My hat is off to Slim, his role and acting ability make this film... Watch out for that CRM 114!
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Summary: Stanley Kubrick does it again!
Review: Awesome! If you like black and white films with a touch of nuclear combat toe to toe with the Ruskies.... Then you will love this movie. Peter Sellars is awesome! George C. Scott is just as good. He also said that this was his fave role of all time... BUY THIS FILM!
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Summary: We'll Meet Again....
Review: Great satire, one of Kubrick's best. The performances are great, and the dialogue is nearly perfect. Although some of the scenes are not as memorable, the sequences in the "war room" and in the bomber plane are unforgettable. The humor is scathing and the message is timeless.
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