How I Won the War

...looks back to Dr. Strangelove and ahead to Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H, but, though worth a look for the curious, it won’t make anyone forget either.

It has a grab-bag full of technical tricks in it, including the juggling of color, conversations between people who are not in the same place and time, remarks addressed directly to the camera and so on.

...Lester's film offers both hilarious moments of satire (of war and war movies) and grim, bloody depictions of the awful reality of combat.