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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 89Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenThe cast is great and the scene in which Carl Reiner and vaudeville vet Tessie O'Shea are lashed together is unforgettably funny.
- Mr. Arkin and Mr. Reiner meet and the comedy takes off in wild flight.
- Still, the picture remains the only ”feel good” movie of the entire Cold War corpus.
- This hysterically funny parody of Cold War tensions sees a Russian submarine get stuck in a sandbar off the coast of New England after its commander, Bikel, ventures too close to shore in order to get a good look at America.
- 70Los Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonLos Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonCleverly written by William and Tania Rose, it's become a cold-war curio. [28 May 1989, p.2]
- 50Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumMore memorable for its title than for anything else.