This film erases both the worries and the activism of Asian Americans at an important time in Los Angeles history and totally ignores the existence of anti-Asian sentiments that was clearly reflected in legislation.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 1, 2024

Widely regarded as the one Steven Spielberg disaster, this sprawling comedy never deserved all the flak that was thrown at it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2024

1941 is a cold cadaver that Spielberg insults with malign complacency. [Full review in Soanish]

| Jan 16, 2024

What a mess!

| May 31, 2022

1941 is perhaps one of those films that should be seen twice, so that disappointed expectations over the wayward behaviour of the slapstick no longer get in the way of pleasure over what goes on alongside it.

| Jan 16, 2020

A somewhat interminable misfire...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 2, 2018

Led by some of the biggest names in comedy at the time, 1941 is Steven Spielberg's most underrated film of all time.

| Jun 11, 2018

This wannabe satire of WWII is the first and one of the few commercial flops in Spielberg's otherwise distinguished and popular output.

| Original Score: D+ | Jan 29, 2013

I love "1941." I don't apologize to you, or my fellow critics, or even Spielberg for that.

| Original Score: A | May 8, 2010

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 23, 2008

Over the top Spielberg comedy, most noted for effects and Belushi.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 20, 2007

A loud, chaotic, overproduced comedy that's often more destructive than funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Oct 8, 2005

It may possibly be that Mr. Spielberg has chosen gigantic size and unlimited quantity as his comedy method in the awareness that he has no gift whatsoever for small-scale comic conceits.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 19, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 31, 2004

Everything bad about Spielberg in one bulging package.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 23, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 9, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 8, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 30, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 12, 2003