M*A*S*H

Where do I even start talking about this movie? When Joe told us in class if we haven't seen M*A*S*H we were going to be in for a culture shock. I have never seen so much black humor in one movie ever.  Hawkeye, Trapper, and Duke on a day to day basis are around the deepest hardships of war.  They are cutting off limbs, tying up arteries, and basically drenched in blood every surgical operation they perform.  The comical thing is they all approach each operation with a nonchalant attitude.  As soon as they are out of the medical tents, they live their lives in a nonchalant fashion as well.  When they medics and nurses are out of surgery you basically get the idea that war isn't even happening, and the front line is 2 miles from the med station.  In their lives outside the medical tents they use cruel and impractical jokes (mostly toward women) to take their minds off their arduous surgical jobs.  For example, when they put the microphone in Major "Hot Lips" tent while she is having sex, and broadcast it to the whole camp.  Also, they lift up the shower tent while she is showering, and all the medics and nurses are spectating this cruel joke to see if she is really blonde.  M*A*S*H is no where near slapstick humor, but more towards the overall situations and timing.  For instance, the football game, you think that the M*A*S* team is going to get killed because they no nothing about football and the general's team actually plays.  But M*A*S*H recruits a medic who used to play professionally.  Also, during the game they drug the other teams best player.  We probably would have found if funny if the generals team just smashed the medics but actually the medics outsmart the general's team in every aspect, including the trick play to win the game. 
The two main characters Hawkeye and Duke don't have to make us laugh using their voices and words.  They do a very great job through their outrageous personalities making us laugh.  Hot Lips, on the other hand is only worried about army protocol, that is why I think she is the butt of the jokes most of the time.  One of my favorite parts of the movie is when the Dentist Painless wants to commit suicide because he is homosexual and doesn't want to explain it to his three wives.  The night he is going to kill himself, the scene satirizes the "Last Supper"  in Jesus time.  Then the next day after Painless takes the supposedly lethal pill he is fine and dandy, back to fixing jaws an teeth. 
This movie addresses touchy topics like suicide and war in a comical manner.  You see this type of mechanic in many of the other films we have watched.  You take a touchy subject and express it through humor and it is not so bad in that moment.
I really enjoyed this movie, at first I didn't think I was going to like it, but overall I would recommend it to anyone.  It is not roll on the ground humor, but there is enough humor in the movie to keep it interesting and fun to watch.