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featuring a wonderful soundtrack of some classic rock n roll, robin williams manages to be funny and serious in equl measure as an army radio deejay during the veitnam war. breezing into the staid military broadcast house, he lifts the spirits of the troops with his anarchic approach and upsets his superiors enough for them to try and have him removed. funny set pieces follow quite harrowing war images as the film shows just how destructive this war was for the locals - not quite as good as catch 22 but worth the effort.

Catch 22 is a film??? I never knew that! I have not seen this film either but I will be adding it to the list!

I thought that this was a very funny but equally poinant film when it had to be. Williams for me was excellent, as was his co-stars.

I agree with you

catch 22 was indeed made into a film and managed to achieve a high degree of accuracy with the book, which is some going as many claimed the story was unfilmable because of the twisting storyline.

it starred alan arkin as yossarian (oddly given the first name john even though it never appeared in the book), orson wells as general dreedle, martin sheen and art garfunkal. most of the back stories for the characters were lost, and bizarely dunbar was written out of it completely despite being yossarian's sidekick for most of heller's original. it is worth watching but not as funny as the book mainly because of the characters being not as fleshed out as their literal counterparts.

because of that i'd give it , but alan arkin gets for doing a great performance

At least they didn't try to rewrite history like the Americans did with that awful film U-571 or whatever it was called. It was us that did that you filthy, history-stealing Yanks!

I think that U-571 deserves a thread all of its own. And a special smilie for -5 stars!

I couldn't stand that film - most films on a boat I can't stand - that other American one on a submarine with Gene Hackman in charge- Crimson Tide I think, was utterly terrible IMHO. For some reason, people liked it but I hated it. Too slow by far, too much American testosterone. One of the reasons I hated it was because it had too much feeling of ''so long as my body bleeds there'll be red on the American flag'' shit that really pisses me off about patriotic American films.

Yo! Loved this film, it was very funny and a dark sort of way in moments. The superiors did not just try to have him removed, they tried to have him KILLED! Not only that but that bit with his mate - he was a bit harsh after all he did expose his cover to save his ass. . . .