In the Army Now (1994)

Note des utilisateurs:

4.2/10   

Réalisateur:

Daniel Petrie Jr.

Writers (WGA):

Steve Zacharias (story) &
Jeff Buhai (story) ...

Release Date:

12 août 1994 (USA)

Genre:

Comedie | War

Accroche:

Sleep tight, America! The safety of the free world rests in his hands!

Plot:

Two misguided youths join the reserves to make some money for their entrepreneurial dreams. No sooner...

Plot Keywords:

Training | Army | Desert | Miniature Golf | Iraq

Avis des utilisateurs:

Being All That They Can Be?

Ensemble

Pauly Shore	...	Bones Conway
Andy Dick	...	Jack Kaufman
Lori Petty	...	Christine Jones
David Alan Grier	...	Fred Ostroff
Esai Morales	...	Sgt. Stern
Lynn Whitfield	...	Sgt. Ladd
Art LaFleur	...	1st Sgt. Brandon T. Williams
Fabiana Udenio	...	Gabriella
Glenn Morshower	...	Richard Day, Recruiting Sergeant
Beau Billingslea	...	Sgt. Daniels
Peter Spellos	...	Mr. Quinn
Barry Nolan	...	Stu Krieger
Coleen Christie	...	News Anchor Person
Ryan Cutrona	...	Colonel
Paul Mooney	...	Lt. Col. Peter Hume

Autre(s) titre(s):

You're in the Army Now (USA) (complete title)

Durée:

91 min

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur (Technicolor)

Son:

Dolby Digital

Classification:

Iceland:L | Spain:13 | UK:PG (video premiere) | USA:PG

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA

Company:

Hollywood Pictures

Anecdotes:

CAMEO(Brendan Fraser: As Link, his character from Encino Man, during the dinner scene in the tent with the Special forces guys.

Goofs:

Continuity: During the airstrike, two aircraft are show flying in, an F-14 and an F-111 but only the F-111 is shown bombing the scud site.

Guillemet:

[Bones and Jack see a Special Forces officer trying to assemble a gun very fast. Bones decides to take a flashlight and assemble it fast. The spring flies off and hits Sgt. Stern]
Jack: Oh no... that's not good. That's noooot good. Uh-oh... he's coming over...

Movie Connections:

Features Return Fire (1994) (VG)

Soundtrack:

Get A Haircut

Being All That They Can Be?

Although there's a lot of people who don't like Pauly Shore, apparently you either love him or hate him, I have to say that I found this film quite amusing. It takes me back to my younger days when I was a weekend warrior. The group I hung out with I'm afraid, all people who were trying to get out of the real army and Vietnam joined the reserves as I did. We were about as military a group as Pauly Shore, Andy Dick, and David Alan Grier. Back then though we were not side by side with Lori Petty. The Army in its infinite wisdom knew better than to activate our crowd for Vietnam.

But that's not what happens here. Pauly Shore and Andy Dick are a pair of misfits in civilian life and find they have a cash flow problem. That extra money for attending those Army Reserve drills sounds pretty enticing so they decide to be all that they can be on the weekends and two weeks in the summer.

But Libya and Chad go to war and like the Iraqi Desert Storm, the reserves are called up for a United Nations multi-national force. Actually Libya and Chad did have border conflicts for many years with the French attacking as protectors for Chad. Pauly, Andy, and their new friends David Alan Grier and Lori Petty are in the Sahara Desert as part of a water purification team, water boys as they're derisively called by those in the real army.

In The Army Now revives all the basic service comedy situations going all the way back to Abbott&Costello in Buck Privates. Especially in the training sequences. Pauly Shore and Andy Dick probably grew up on Bud&Lou, but they do the routines with a Generation X twist.

I liked the film and thanked God I was not in the situations that Pauly and the rest were in.