A generally entertaining war film with no real political axe to grind or patriotic flag waving getting in the way. Its very dangerous trying to humorous war in the movies, because that would be offensive to all those that had served & died in real life. With Dirty Dozen we have something of a go-between; the humour amongst the characters is light & welcoming but never falls into farce or bad-taste; and Aldrich quickly pulls us back into the fold with some tight scripted scenes of drama & mass murder (throwing petrol & grenades into that German bunker to name but one.