SummaryRetired Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale spends his days puttering around the Caribbean in the old PT-73 selling homebrew, ice cream, and swimsuit calendars. He's brought out of retirement when his old nemesis turned the second best terrorist in the world, Major Vladikov, takes over the island of San Moreno and starts building a nuclear launch... Read More
Directed By:Bryan Spicer
Written By:Peter Crabbe, Andy Rose
McHale's Navy
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Time and adapters have not been kind to the fun-loving series.
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Although it comes under the increasingly crowded category of Why Did They Bother, McHale's Navy does offer an example of a movie that tries to be all things to all people. As long as they're 13 and male.
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McHale's Navy is an astonishingly bad film. Even if you never saw the early '60s TV series on which it is loosely based, you'll hate it. [18 Apr 1997, p.39]
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A damp squib of a movie.
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If the '60s sitcom McHale's Navy was a poor man's Sergeant Bilko, the new big-screen McHale is a poverty-stricken, starving-to-death, brain-dead person's answer to last year's not-so-hot Steve Martin movie, Sgt. Bilko. [19 Apr 1997, p.D08]
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No originality, no memorable characters, no comic timing, and no good jokes equal no fun for the audience.
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It's even less funny than it sounds. By the end, this soporific comedy makes 105 minutes feel more like a two-year hitch.
