If you served in the Swiss Army, you WILL recognize yourself in this movie... and will enjoy watching it. You get the feeling of: "Yeah, that's how it is... oh, yes, I remember that exercise... That guy is just like our CO (or whoever)... oh, yeah, the Grenadier vs. Füsilier antagonism..." and so on..
If you never did serve in the Swiss Army, you probably won't understand half the jokes... and then the movie is just plain boring.
This comedy is decidedly Swiss. You have to know the Swiss Army to understand it.
I loved it, but I did serve. (I recognized myself most in the character of Korporal Wyss...) Most of my friends who are not Swiss or managed to worm out of military training didn't think it fun... not because it was inaccurate, but because they didn't understand the context.
If you never did serve in the Swiss Army, you probably won't understand half the jokes... and then the movie is just plain boring.
This comedy is decidedly Swiss. You have to know the Swiss Army to understand it.
I loved it, but I did serve. (I recognized myself most in the character of Korporal Wyss...) Most of my friends who are not Swiss or managed to worm out of military training didn't think it fun... not because it was inaccurate, but because they didn't understand the context.
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