This movie features Beatle John Lennon and Roy Kinnear as ill-fated enlisted men under the inept command of Lieutenant Ernest Goodbody (Michael Crawford). The story unwinds mostly in flashbacks of Lieutenant Goodbody who has lower-class beginnings and education which make him a poor officer who commands one of the worst units of the Army.... (Full plot summary below)
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This movie features Beatle John Lennon and Roy Kinnear as ill-fated enlisted men under the inept command of Lieutenant Ernest Goodbody (Michael Crawford). The story unwinds mostly in flashbacks of Lieutenant Goodbody who has lower-class beginnings and education which make him a poor officer who commands one of the worst units of the Army.
Leave your thoughts about How I Won the War.
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeIt still has an edge most films would shy away from. It's brilliant, bitter, defiant and angry. |
| ArtforumManny FarberIt suggests an overaged boyishness almost incapable of relating to the hard-nosed, dry, sardonic war films supposedly under attack here. |
| The SpectatorPenelope HoustonA film so critical of others' attitudes should perhaps have given more positive vetting to its own. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher NullThis war farce (about World War II) is just not funny. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertI got no impression from this film that Lester really, personally, cares very strongly one way or the other about war. It was only a currently fashionable subject, a good excuse to make a movie. |
| VarietyVariety StaffPatrick Ryan's novel has been adapted into a screenplay which, as directed by Richard Lester, substitutes motion for emotion, reeling for feeling, and crude slapstick for telling satire. |
| User ReviewFinch McLovin...he said green, green, green...so I did... |
| User Reviewsarah sI love this movie, and not just because John's in it. xD |
| User ReviewPrivate UHas some of the snappiest dialogue ever written. The scene on the bridge at the end is awesome! |
| User ReviewMorgan PI watched it because Lennon was in it but it ended up being a really good action comedy. |
