The latest in our series of writers defending maligned films is a reappraisal of Steven Spielberg’s 1979 comedy flop
“What a mess! What a goddamn mess!”
Real-life army general Joseph Stilwell (Robert Stack) says this, right when a car veers off the road and flips over on its side behind him, in the wild-as-hell second world war comedy 1941. While he’s describing the pandemonium that’s taking place on-screen, he’s also perfectly describing the movie as a whole.
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