Metacritic reviews

The 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.

An outstanding cold-war comedy depicting the havoc created on a mythical Massachusetts island by the crew of a grounded Russian sub.

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.

Cleverly written by William and Tania Rose, it's become a cold-war curio. [28 May 1989, p.2]

More memorable for its title than for anything else.