M*A*S*H (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
by Robert Altman
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Actor: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Robert Duvall, Sally Kellerman, Tom SkerrittDirector: Robert Altman
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
Cinematographer: Harold E. Stine
Editor: Danford B. Greene
Producer: Ingo Preminger
Producer: Leon Ericksen
Writer: Richard Hooker
Writer: Ring Lardner Jr.
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language); Korean (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-07
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of M*A*S*H (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: Misogyny and racism glorified
Summary: 1 Stars
I love the TV series MASH, and was genuinely looking forward to watching the film. Sadly both my friend and I sat in stunned silence through the film, which was (1) not funny unless you find a man stepping on a rake and hitting himself in the face hilarious, (2) disgustingly misogynistic (from the way Hotlips was treated - first as a prude who needed to be brought down a few notches, and then as a nincompoop, to the other female characters (nurses in both the MASH unit and in Tokyo, and the prostitutes in Tokyo)), and to top it all off (3) racist and (4) anti-homosexual.
Perhaps some will say I am ignoring the fact that this is a black comedy, meant to be disrespectful and brash. If that is the case, I will happily remain in my cocoon of ignorance.
Summary of M*A*S*H (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
One of the world's most acclaimed comedies, MASH focuses on three Korean War Army surgeons brilliantly brought to life by Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt and Elliott Gould. Though highly skilled and deeply dedicated, they adopt a hilarious, lunatic lifestyle as an antidote to the tragedies of their Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and in the process infuriate Army bureaucrats. Robert Duvall, Gary Burghoff and Sally Kellerman co-star as a sanctimonious Major, an other-worldly Corporal, and a self-righteous yet lusty nurse.It's set during the Korean War, in a mobile army surgical hospital. But no one seeing M*A*S*H in 1970 confused the film for anything but a caustic comment on the Vietnam War; this is one of the counterculture movies that exploded into the mainstream at the end of the '60s. Director Robert Altman had labored for years in television and sporadic feature work when this smash-hit comedy made his name (and allowed him to create an astonishing string of offbeat pictures, culminating in the masterpiece Nashville). Altman's style of cruel humor, overlapping dialogue, and densely textured visuals brought the material to life in an all-new kind of war movie (or, more precisely, antiwar movie). Audiences had never seen anything like it: vaudeville routines played against spurting blood, fueled with open ridicule of authority. The cast is led by Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland, as the outrageous surgeons Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John McIntyre, with Robert Duvall as the uptight Major Burns and Sally Kellerman in an Oscar-nominated role as nurse "Hot Lips" Houlihan. The film's huge success spawned the long-running TV series, a considerably softer take on the material; of the film's cast, only Gary Burghoff repeated his role on the small screen, as the slightly clairvoyant Radar O'Reilly. --Robert Horton
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