![]() ![]() Candy’s best movie is still Planes, Trains and Automobiles, written by John Hughes who ironically wrote a lot of formulaic teen movies in the 1980’s. John Candy is funny un this film, but either he ad-libbed or it was bad writing by Harold Ramis, but they gave Ox a chip on his shoulder that didn’t fit Candy’s loveable persona. There is no such evolution in Stripes, Murray is the same frat-boy type he was in the beginning of the film. ![]() The great thing about a film like Groundhog Day, is Murray’s character evolves and fixes what’s wrong with the smug, arrogant character from the beginning of that film. He comes off smug and arrogant, and not very funny. He’s played this character several times, Meatballs Stripes, and The Ghostbusters films and it doesn’t age well. The scenes after the drill routine aren’t even worth watching, as Stripes limps to an unsatisfying finish.īill Murray brings out his bag of tricks as the working-class aging hipster, lounge lizard with sad puppy dog eyes. Ox has a mean steak, Sergeant Hulka sounds like a rip-off of Sergeant Carter from Gomer Pyle USMC, and Stillman is an incompetent boob, gee that’s a refreshing take on a military character. But the other characters aren’t well written either. This was standard issue 80’s sex comedy 101. There is a truly embarrassing scene involving Ox and mud-wrestling. And oh the misogyny, the women are there for nothing but for the men to chase and grope them. There are so many cliches, lovable loser with nothing else to lose joins the military and trains different lovable losers in how to succeed. There’s even an inspiring speech that Winger gives, much like Bluto in Animal House, but less funny. The script is basically Animal House goes to basic training. It worked first for Chevy Chase, then John Belushi, Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Will Ferrell, and many more. Here’s the formula, Saturday Night Live star leaves show and does bits of his characters in a movie and makes a lot of money. To call this movie formulaic is an insult to formulaic movies. Wilke) Or will John, Russell, and Ox have to redo basic training? ![]() (Warren Oates) They also meet two attractive female MP’s, Stella Hansen (PJ Soles) and Louise Cooper (Sean Young, and they’re not interested, or are they? When Sargeant Hulka meets with a training accident, the platoon is left to train with the less than capable ladder climber Captain John Stillman (John Larroqutte) Will the new recruits shape up in time before they have to show their skills to General Barnickie? (Robert J. (John Candy) They also run afoul of the tough drill sergeant, Hulka. Once in basic training, John and Russell run into the usual bunch of misfits, including the overweight but somewhat lovable Ox. On a whim, Winger joins the army, and convinces his friend, Russell Ziskey, (Harold Ramis) who teaches English as a second language to join the army, and amazingly, Russell agrees. He quits his job as a cab driver, his car gets repossessed, and his beautiful girlfriend, Anita, (Roberta Leighton) leaves him. John Winger (Bill Murray) is having a really bad day. ![]() portman robert downey jr russell crowe ryan gosling samuel l jackson scarlett johansson seth rogan steve carrell steven spielberg tarentino tilda swinton tina fey tom hanks tom hardy will ferrell woody harrelson zoe saldana
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