A ham-fisted, fitfully amusing lark that quickly runs aground.
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05/15/08
McHale's Navy (1997)
4 %
Reviews Counted: 28 Fresh: 1 Rotten:27 Average Rating: 2.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Synopsis: Ahoy! The Navy will never be the same after Captain McHale and his ragtag band of bumbling misfits are called upon to defend the base of San Ysidro Island from an evil terrorist bent on world domination. Based on the popular comic television series starring Ernest Borgnine, who appears in a... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Tom Arnold, David Alan Grier, Dean Stockwell, Tim Curry, Bruce Campbell
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Top Critic
This shotgun marriage of coarse laughs and low-rent action cliches is, of course, utterly predictable: Cutting-edge comedy isn't lurking under the corpses of old TV shows.
05/15/08
[Trots] out the same tired cliches -- unorthodox heroes, inept commanding officers, officious little weasels getting trampled by the zany crew -- which haven't been funny since...well, ever.
12/23/02
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11/06/02
How to turn a so-so series into a witless movie. Earns a half-star for Bruce Campbell.
07/25/02
By the end, this soporific comedy makes 105 minutes feel more like a two-year hitch.
06/18/02
This McHale's Navy would never have floated as programming ballast on a bad night of network TV.
06/05/02
The problem is that when the jokes are as flat as two-day old Coke, your mind has time to think about all the plot incongruities too.
04/17/02
A useless movie. Not funny, suspenseful, moving or even offensive enough to want to torpedo. Just devoid of any conceivable value.
04/12/02
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