Shore's character -- an immature, SoCal mall rat--may have been tolerable introducing videos on MTV, but 90 straight minutes of his lackadaisical schtick borders on torture.
In the Army Now (1994)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:0
Rotten:20
Average Rating:2.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Bones Conway and Jack Kaufman need cash. So what do they do? They join the army, where boys become men, and you can get to see the world, too. And when they've finished their tour of duty, they can... Bones Conway and Jack Kaufman need cash. So what do they do? They join the army, where boys become men, and you can get to see the world, too. And when they've finished their tour of duty, they can finally open that stereo store they've dreamed of owning. But meanwhile, America's security is in the hands of these laid-back dimwits -- and that's bad news for those good men in uniform with a sense of duty. (Not to mention to country!) The only question is, who's going to fall apart first: the new recruits or the military as we know it? [More]
Starring: Pauly Shore, Lori Petty, David Alan Grier, Andy Dick
Starring: Pauly Shore, Lori Petty, David Alan Grier, Andy Dick, Esai Morales
Director: Daniel Petrie
Director: Daniel Petrie
Reviews for In the Army Now
Putting Mr. Shore under the authority of a pretty female drill sergeant (Lynn Whitfield) is, along with that bad haircut, one of this film's only ways of getting laughs.
Not even as good as Bio-Dome, and I never thought I would ever say that in my life.
For the uninitiated, Shore's screen persona is somewhere between Jim Varney and Jim Carrey -- if you drained them of all their energy and personality.
Every promising situation -- Shore suffering through basic training, dealing with real battle and so on -- suffers immediate creative fatigue.
Let's put it this way: it's a 90-minute comedy, and I laughed just once (the guy in front of me spilled popcorn on his whiny date, if you must know).
It's a tale as old as the jokes, which were already old when the Peloponnesians went to war.
The screenplay, work by five writers, based on a story by three others, seems to have been rewritten often enough that any individuality has been lost.
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