Sweet, with some chaos.

Incredibly dumb slapstick (complementary) with an incredibly dumb plot (derogatory).

Alan Alda's tour de force on the human cost of war. Everyone loses something, no one leaves Korea whole:

-Hawkeye loses his mind and his skill as a surgeon.
-BJ loses his best friend.
-Potter loses his career.
-Winchester loses his sanctuary of music.
-Mulcahy loses his hearing.
-Margaret loses her submissiveness to her father.
-Klinger loses his urgency to go back to Toledo.

Even if you don't think the first hour and 45 minutes are perfect (and they are), the goodbyes said in the final 15 minutes rank as some of the best television ever.

I could whine that my favorite scenes from the book aren't in the movie, but it's still a banger from beginning to end. They got Rocky exactly right, and that was probably the most important part for fans of the book.