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1941 (1979) (2 Disc Special Edition) (Directors Cut & Theatrical Version)

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Dan Aykroyd (Actor), John Belushi (Actor), Steven Spielberg (Director) Format: DVD
4.3 out of 5 stars 83 customer reviews

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  • Actors: Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Ned Beatty, Lorraine Gary, Christopher Lee
  • Directors: Steven Spielberg
  • Format: Import, PAL, Widescreen, Special Edition, Director's Cut
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: Danish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Run Time: 145 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (83 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B004LXUEBW
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 113,602 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Skadinavian Edition, PAL/Region 2 DVD: Subtitles: Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish. Theatrical Version 114. min. Directors Cut 145. min. Features: The making of 1941 (103. min.) Deleted scens, Trailer, Teaser, Photo & Poster gallery. Los Angeles just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, when fear of a Japanese invasion threw the city into a state of Pandemonium. Screwball characters run wild on Hollywood Boulevard as manic servicemen, zealous store owners, teary-eyed girls and bickering Nazis are thrown together in this fast-rising comic soufflé that even features a sendup of Spielberg's own Jaws opening.

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5.0 out of 5 starsA very funny film
By A Customer on 26 Feb. 2003
Format: VHS Tape
Why "1941" never got the acclaim it deserves is a mystery. Maybe it is because many Americans find it hard to laugh at themselves. There are so many memorable moments (two men and a dummy on top of a ferris wheel, the submarine sinking the tank, Robert Stack shedding a tear at "Dumbo" whilst the world outside the cinema is going mad, the amazing aircraft chase through Hollywood which is Spielberg's self-parody of "Star Wars"), but it has to be John Belushi as the fighter pilot that sticks in the mind. One of the few films that I have watched more than once.
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5.0 out of 5 starsmadcap insane comedy romp
By A Customer on 21 April 2000
Format: VHS Tape
This has to be my favourite film of all time. Although never given the true credit it deserves this is one of steven spielbergs funniest movies. With a brilliant ensemble cast, John Belushi steals the show. His portrayal of a slightly less than sane fighter pilot will have everyone in stitches. The film follows a number of storys happening in 1941. From the teenager trying to get the girl, to the patriotic american ready to do anything to protect his country. All the storys come together to form the best mad-cap ending since "it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world". Unmissable!
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4.0 out of 5 starsA gloriously self-indulgent monument to excess
By Trevor Willsmer HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWER on 25 Oct. 2011
Format: Blu-ray
NB: There are two different versions of this film - the two hour theatrical version, released on PAL DVD in Europe by Sony, and the two-and-a-half hour pre-release director's cut released on NTSC DVD in the US by Universal. Both include the same extras, while the Blu-ray contains both versions.

Lampooning the paranoia that swept America in the weeks after Pearl Harbor, 1941 is a hard film to make a case for, but it's the kind of film you can like in spite of its many flaws. Parts of it (much of the first half of the movie, in fact) are truly atrociously directed and despite a script by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, Spielberg's epic live-action cartoon is rarely ever particularly funny. A big part of the blame comes down to Spielberg's inability to properly time or stage many of the gags at that point in his career. But what Spielberg CAN do is stage the spectacle, which the film has in spades, as if compensating for the lack of jokes with an excess of explosions and destruction. And excess is what 1941 is ultimately all about. It may not be terribly good, but there's still a lot of fun to be had amid all the wreckage.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsI love this film!!!!!!!!!!!
By Stephen Macdonald on 11 Jan. 2010
Format: DVD
For those who are curious, here are the details of the Dvd.

This Dvd features the original, shorter, theatrical cut of the film, running 1 hour 54 minutes. The picture and sound are remastered and is miles better than the older U.S. disc. It is also 16:9 enhanced for you widescreen TV.

The extras are the same as the older U.S. disc, but come on a 2nd disc instead of cramming it all onto one. Even the menus are the same as the decade-old American release.

Making of 1941 (Almost as long as the film).
Deleted scenes
Original Trailers
Production photos

One thing the US disc has that this new one doesn't, is the John Williams Isolated Score.

Overall I highly recommend this.

If you want the longer cut you can still pick it up cheap.
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4.0 out of 5 starsA VERY FUNNY FILM, but that's just my opinion
By A Customer on 23 July 2003
Format: VHS Tape
Although many people find this film largely unfunny I find it hilarious. They got John Belushi to play the same kind of character that he did in Animal House and, in my opinion, it works!! Dan Aykroyd is also as funny as ever, he gets a bump on the head and does some crazy things that are sure to make you laugh. This film is worth renting just to see John Belushi's many comedy falls and Dan Aykroyd's impression of a bug.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe most ambitious Spielberg's film. His own, hylarious Apocalypse now. Buy it in blu ray, making sure it's got this dvd extras
By Elleppi on 8 Sept. 2015
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
The mos underrated yet one of the best, most spectacular and geniously irrieverent Spielberg's films. 1941 belongs to his first phase, that of a promising and talented maverick outsider who gradually takes over Hollywood and his genre, renewing them in a refreshing way and with the right balance of perfect knowledge of cinematographic language and a lively thoughtprovoking approach. 1941 is America trapped in its own showbusiness mask, where everything sounds like a film line, every behaviour looks like acting, every situation seems to be taken from a western or a musical or a war film. An America that results as fascinating as totally dumb and unaware of the real danger. So the approaching enemies look invisible to their blinded eyes, blinded by a paranoia that has no face but just prejudice, cliche, made of the striking lights of advertising and entertainment, which just create a selfreferred confusion, where American themselves do not realize that the are destroying themeselves and even having fun while doing it. In fact, 1941 is like a big carnival of faces, machines, music, sounds and cries and laughs and mere defense of one's own house with garden, night out dress, favourite movie star or just a date for last year's ball.
And despite that, Spielberg and friends (a mass of brilliant actors and a fantastic crew doung a wonderful job, from photography to editing, from music score to writing, like Milius and Zemeckis, the most unlikely couple ever to meet in a film) seem to have a big fun at producing an unstoppable, ceaseless train of nonsense sequences, chain-reaction scenes (the physical effect that best represent the cause/effect principle of the giant social machine that gets started as paranoia and entertainment clash into one another).Read more ›
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