Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Wordiezett So much average

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

room102 I always thought 1988 was one of the best years at the cinema (together with 1984, 1990/1991 and 2000).I've seen this movie several times before, but not in a very long time. It's just as good as I remembered, perhaps even more. Excellent semi- autobiography comedy/drama about recruits in boot camp during WWII. Excellent writing by Neil Simon based on his play. Excellent cast - Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken and many unknown others, all perfect in their roles, even the supporting cast in tiny roles (the girl playing the hooker and Penelope Ann Miller who is damn cute). Good production and good direction by Mike Nichols.Like GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, this is a great example of taking a play and making it into a GOOD cinematic presentation. The writing has a perfect combination of comedy and drama and all the characters are well defined and interesting - not like in many others movies in which the supporting characters blend with each other.I just realized that the play and the Eugene Morris Jerome character are part of a semi-biography trilogy by Neil Simon. Corey Parker, who plays Arnold Epstein "the intellectual Jew" to perfection, also played Eugene (Matthew Broderick's character) in a later TV production, Broadway BOUND (1992) with Jonathan Silverman who himself played Eugene in BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS (1986). And to close the loop, Matthew Broderick played in BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS on Broadway.I give 7.5/10 for the first half and 7/10 for the second half.

david-sarkies This film is actually based on a play by Neil Simons and what makes this a decent reproduction is that Neil Simons also wrote the screenplay. As such the movie was written along the lines of the original intentions of Neil Simons rather than the interpretation of a third party. Even so, I quite enjoyed this movie namely because of its wit and decent characters.Biloxi Blues is about a young man in 1945 who is going to boot camp to train to fight in the war. This is in the closing stages of the war so moral is very high because of the fact that they are on the winning side. The war is only in the background for the focus of the movie is not the war but the relationship between the platoon and the main character's entrance into adulthood. During the movie the main character sleeps with his first woman and also falls in love for the first time. It is his first time out of home and enters the boot camp as a naïve boy, but he leaves a man.Sergeant Tooley is the most interesting character in the movie. When he first walks onto the screen one immediately notices that he is different. The stereotypical sergeant walks on yelling while Tooley walks on greeting his platoon. He rarely raises his voice, and actually uses other cadets to dish out punishments, with the intention of turning the other cadets onto him. Thus he uses peer pressure to keep people in line. Yet as with most sergeants the cadets hate him, though after he is discharged they realised how great a sergeant he really was.The main character is very witty, and of course this angers the sergeant no end. His first comment on Mississippi is that it is "hot, Africa hot, not even Tarzan can stand this hot." Or when he is asked what he would do if Japanese were marching on him, he would surrender simply so he could get a decent nights sleep, or even his religious holiday simply to get out of eating a horrid meal.I guess what made this movie really lively is that the narrator claims that it was based on his own experiences. Most probably it was, though Simons does not use his own name in the movie, but rather creates another character that is him. This film is actually based on a play by Neil Simons and what makes this a decent reproduction is that Neil Simons also wrote the screenplay. As such the movie was written along the lines of the original intentions of Neil Simons rather than the interpretation of a third party. Even so, I quite enjoyed this movie namely because of its wit and decent characters.

edwagreen The film is spoiled by the last 20 minutes.Otherwise, Neil Simon's writing is at its best as he describes Eugene Jerome's experiences in the army during World War 11.Simon etches out some real characters in this film that shows that bonds are possible between guys in wartime, even when there is religious and racial prejudice involved.It is a film declaring the coming of age of youth as Jerome loses his virginity and uses his talents as a writer to describe his experiences.Christopher Walken shines here as the brutal sergeant who gets the men to hate the 2 Jewish guys in the outfit. He lets Jerome and his buddy decide who will get the bad things to do. It is when Walken goes berserk at the end that the film goes awry.

kirkoa It is a romantic, nostalgic look at an era gone by while capturing the innocence of youth. Walken is TERRIFIC in it, and all of the characters are developed throughout the movie. One of my favorite all time scenes in any movie is the scene where Jerome and Rowena are in the bedroom. I laughed out loud when I first saw it because you can so readily identify with the emotions that Jerome is feeling as he tries to figure out how to sort of lay down with her. That is a perfect example of what I mean when I say the movie really captures the innocence of youth. You will be disappointed, however, if you think that this is a war movie, as it uses the army as more of a backdrop to highlight the coming of age story. I agree, how can this movie be rated only a 6.4/10?