Dr. Strangelove is a strange movie in that the plot is very non-sensicle and screwed up. Set in an era at the height cold war, Dr. Strangelove is centered around stopping a mad American Colonel bent on destroying the USSR - and causing global nuclear war.
We first find out that Colonel Jack Ripper (Sterling Hayden) has gone utterly mad, and has launched his many bomber wings to destroy targets in the USSR. He has also taken a prisoner, Capt. Lionel Mandrake (Peter Sellers).
The Soviets retaliate by stating that if any part of the USSR is hit by nuclear weapons, a "doomsday" device will trigger, which will destroy all plant and animal life on the Earth.
The American President (Peter Sellers) gathers his top advisors, including General Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott) to confer on the matter. Together, they all plot to try to stop the bombers with help from the Russian ambassador (Peter Bull) and a mad nazi scientist, Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers).
The whole group works round the clock to try and stop the mad Colonel and the wave of bombers before they destroy the Soviet Union and before global thermonuclear war is unleashed upon the entire world. Can they do it? Can they save the Earth? only time will tell.
Dispite the bizzar title, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is an excelent satire of the times it was made in. It is a satire of the cold war, a time when one slip-up could have ment war all over again.
Stanley Kubrick did an excelent job directing Dr. Strangelove. His camera movements are varied and his style of direction is unmatched. This is by far his best work, with honorable mentions to Lolita and 2001: A Space Odessy.
The whole cast works well together. Everyone seems natural together, and Peter Sellers steals the show with his three-man performance.
As far as satires go, this one dynamite and can't be missed. It's message is heard loud and clear; Kubrick made sure of that.
Plot: 
Dr. Strangelove's plot is as fresh today as it was then. Nuclear war is a threat once again, and the United States is at the center of it again (methinks they never left).
Visual Effects: 
The airplane shots are superb, and the cinematogrphy is excelent, including the black and whiteness of the film.
Sound:
The score is very catchy and soundeffects work well.
Character Development:
It is hard to see how any of the characters develope, but they do.
Atmosphere:
A hard movie to get into unless you like the satire genre.
Realism:
based on the real thing, and just as real today as it was in 1964.
Warren�s Rating: 
Movies it was nominated with for Best Picture:
Alexis Zorbas, (1964); Becket, (1964);
*My Fair Lady, (1964); Mary Poppins, (1964)
7.57/10 Is the movie worth your time to watch?
29-10-03
