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List Price: $26.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 49690
Released: January 8, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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
M*A*S*H (Five Star Collection) Reviews:
This started it all. 
2009-11-08 - This is the original movie that started the MASH TV series. Alan Alda isn't in it nor is Roberta Swift of many of the characters you are used to from many years of the TV series. However Trapper John and the Painless Polock are there, who are not in the TV series.
Christians be warned! This movie mocks God. 
2009-11-02 - I always enjoyed the weekly television series MASH, so I was quite shocked to discover that the movie version of MASH is a piece of garbage, which is where my copy ended up. My first shock was to discover that the catchy little tune they play at the beginning of every show is actually a song about suicide being painless. Next, one of the characters is mocked for praying. The worst scene is where they mock the Last Supper during a fake suicide. Enough said!
crude, rude and pompous
2009-06-06 - I am more or less in accord with other reviewers who see this movie as a piece of 1960s counter-culture. The heroes of the movie are crude, rude and pompous. The "villian" of the movie (Frank Burns) embodies Patriotism and faith in God. The movie mocks and denegrates Christianity, fidelity and patriotism. In a larger sense, the movie which was supposed to be a comedy, wasn't even that funny. I didn't laugh once at the "good guys" teasing Burns into a nervouse breakdown, or the various "fag jokes". I realize that being in a war zone can cause a certain degree of morality to break down; I just don't think that it is funny when that happens.
MASH the movie...
2009-06-05 - One of the great films. Interesting that Sutherland and Gould thought it was a career ender. Quite true to the book which is worth reading.
And always keep in mind that it was made during our Vietnam period, the draft, and probably the most unpopular mis-adventure by our government.
When was the last time you knew someone engaged to 3 women...
I rest my case.
Misogyny and racism glorified
2009-04-30 - 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.
