All apologies to the handful of Americans who've waited decades for this big-screen update of the '60s sitcom--the result is both awful and awfully irrelevant.
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09/05/09
McHale's Navy (1997)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:1
Rotten:29
Average Rating:2.2/10
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... [More]
Starring: Tom Arnold, David Alan Grier, Dean Stockwell, Tim Curry
Director: Bryan Spicer
Reviews for McHale's Navy
A ham-fisted, fitfully amusing lark that quickly runs aground.
05/15/08
Top CriticThis 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
No review available.
10/09/05
No review available.
07/24/05
No review available.
05/06/05
The most idiotic, unfunny script imaginable.
04/09/05
Tom Arnold is no Ernest Borgnine. A profound statement.
11/01/04
No review available.
06/22/04
Dear God, why?
09/23/03
No review available.
08/12/03
[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
No review available.
07/30/02
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
An absolutely terrible movie, a comedy devoid of laughs.
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