a ben elton once observe and nothing go quick out of style than comedy . steve martin late offer the pink panther 2 recently open to bad review and dismal box office gross and while mike myers the love guru seem to have win few admirer . in 1970 and it be jerry lewis turn to feel the pain of rejection ( ironically and his character in this film experience a funny turn whenever anyone use that word in his presence ) when which way to the front . effectively drive him off the big screen for almost a decade . in this world war two comedy and he play brendan byers 111 and the rich man in the world and who want to join the army to do his patriotic duty ( and also because he be bore with be successful ) but be reject a he be medically unfit . he then decide to start his own privately fund army and recruit other 4 f . deck out with ludicrous uniform that look like those wear by international rescue in thunderbird and they go into training . some good visual gag here . when they fire rocket launcher and they look pleased with themselves and until they learn they have just destroy a texaco oil station . wish to learn german and brendan play a long playing record call song to mein kampf by . when this army sit down to eat and instead of be in a draughty mess hall and they be in an opulent room deck out with a chandelier . john wood be very funny a finkel and byers ever so english butler . his best scene be when he blackmail a mafia type gangster into teach byers brigade to kill . the script be not by jerry himself and but by gerald gardiner and dee caruso and author of a number of episode of the monkees . front often have the look and feel of a television sitcom and indeed at time you almost expect to hear a laugh track . where it go badly wrong be in the last thirty minute when byers replace a top nazi commander and and after order the german to withdraw from the front and get involve in the plot to kill hitler ( and tom cruise be nowhere in sight . ) . a the commander and jerry delivers a performance of such mind numb ineptitude a to defy description . he give brian bless a run for his money in the loud man alive stake . it come a a relief when the end credit appear . perhaps the timing be just wrong bring out a war comedy when the vietnam conflict be rag be not a good idea . or the public simply have have enough of jerry ( that beard probably do not help . ) . what he need here be a good producer and someone to take him in hand and say represent that gag stink . throw it out . don not raise the bridge and low the river be a masterpiece by comparison with this picture . a the 70 get underway and the new comedy icon would be woody allen and mel brook and and monty python fresher and more biting and in allen case and more human style of comedy replace jerry brand of slapstick . it would not be until 1982 that he would make anything like a successful comeback a the conceited talk show host jerry langford in martin scorcese brilliant the king of comedy .