Director Steven Spielberg's wacky comedy masterpiece was nominated for three Academy Awards. Flamboyant and spectacular scenes along with a world-class cast are the main strengths of the film, which is set in Los Angeles just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, when fear of a Japanese invasion plunged the city into a state of Pandemonium - total chaos. A hodgepodge of confused characters scurry around Hollywood - angry soldiers, eager businessmen, weepy girls and quarrelsome Nazis - all coming together to form a sweet concoction of jokes, in which Spielberg also takes the liberty of parodying the opening shots of his own film, Jaws...
