Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Cast
Peter Sellers as Capt. Lionel Mandrake/President Merkin Muffley/Dr. Strangelove
George C. Scott as Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson
Sterling Hayden as Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper
Keenan Wynn as Col. 'Bat' Guano
Slim Pickens as Maj. T.J. 'King' Kong
Directed by
Stanley Kubrick
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Rater #2
7/10. The title character in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Bomb is in less scenes than the number of words
in the title, yet he is still an eerie presence. General Jack D.
Ripper (Jack the Ripper�get it) goes mad and orders us to bomb Russia
in the height of the Cold War. Everyone in the American government
tries to stop it.
Peter Sellers has a tri-role: as Capt. Mandrake, assistant to Ripper,
President Merkin Muffley, the slightly slow President of the USA, and
Dr. Strangelove, an eccentric German doctor in the War Room. George
C. Scott is Buck Turgidson, who is a crazed "Ruskie"-hater. Is there
anyone in this movie who isn't crazy?
All along the way of this seemingly short movie, I was reminded of
MASH. They're both classic black comedies that I feel are overrated
and I enjoy immensely but I don't find that funny. I thought Sellers
was excellent in all three of his parts. I had forgotten that he was
also the President. He's hilarious as Strangelove. I felt like that
the characters weren't as developed as much as they could be, though.
I also wish that there were more shots of inside of the bombers,
since I thought they were quite funny, especially with Slim Pickens
at the helm.
Movies like this I love to sit through, but I always pine for more
laughs. I'm not saying that this is a bad movie; in fact, it's genius
at the director's chart-Stanley Kubrick. This marks the third one of
his I've seen, after 2001 and The Shining. And, alas, I am sad that
he has passed, and I also am sad that this review is shorter than his
list of movies he directed.
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Rated PG for language and war.
Running time: 93 minutes
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