Suitable only for movie-goers who have undergone frontal lobotomies.
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01/01/00
McHale's Navy (1997)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:1
Rotten:29
Average Rating:2.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Genre: Comedies
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
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Reviews for McHale's Navy
Top CriticThe most idiotic, unfunny script imaginable.
04/09/05
A lot like its star, Tom Arnold -- big and bombastic, with no substance.
01/01/00
Leaky PT-boat of a comedy.
01/01/00
Top CriticA lot like the B movies of old. No huge stars, no Oscar-caliber anything, but diverting and entertaining.
01/01/00
Sink it! Blub, blub, blub!
01/01/00
A ham-fisted, fitfully amusing lark that quickly runs aground.
05/15/08
Top CriticA useless movie. Not funny, suspenseful, moving or even offensive enough to want to torpedo. Just devoid of any conceivable value.
04/12/02
Top CriticBy the end, this soporific comedy makes 105 minutes feel more like a two-year hitch.
06/18/02
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
I didn't laugh once, not even giggle.
01/01/00
Top CriticAll 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.
09/05/09
All apologies to the handful of Americans who've waited decades for this big-screen update of the '60s sit-com -- the result is both awful and awfully irrelevant.
01/01/00
I'm not even going to get into the dialogue, the plot, the other performances, because as the sage advice goes, if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.
01/01/00
[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
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
The process of conceiving, producing, and distributing this comedic Superfund site required active, premeditated thought and effort that, in a just world, would be punishable by hard jail time.
01/01/00
Yet another recycled sitcom turned feature film, and is about as appealing as a failed television pilot.
01/01/00
This McHale's Navy would never have floated as programming ballast on a bad night of network TV.
06/05/02
An absolutely terrible movie, a comedy devoid of laughs.
01/01/00
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