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Movie Info

When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson (Michael Keaton) faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager (Gedde Watanabe) and the sycophant (Sab Shimono) who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members (George Wendt, John Turturro) struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.

Rating:

PG-13
Genre:

comedy
Original Language:

English
Director:

Ron Howard
Producer:

Tony Ganz, Deborah Blum
Release Date (Streaming):

Jun 6, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA):

$36.4M
Runtime:

1h 51m
Production Co:

Paramount Pictures
Sound Mix:

Surround, Stereo

Cast & Crew

Michael Keaton
Hunt Stevenson

Gedde Watanabe
Oishi Kazihiro

George Wendt
Buster

Mimi Rogers
Audrey

John Turturro
Willie

Soh Yamamura
Mr. Sakamoto

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Critic Reviews for Gung Ho

All Critics (21) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (14)

By the end, it's curiously unformed, almost a blueprint for another movie.

January 2, 2018 | Full Review…

Paul Attanasio
Washington Post
Its tone swings violently from pratfall to preachment, from an indictment of featherbed laziness to an extended beer-commercial celebration of the mythical American worker.

June 28, 2011 | Full Review…

Richard Corliss
TIME Magazine
Drawn from real life, the conflict between cultures is good for both a laugh and a sober thought along the way.

March 26, 2009 | Full Review…

Variety Staff
Variety
The hero, though funny, is ultimately unsympathetic, securing through his cosy pacts nobody's position but his own, while the upbeat ending justifies strike-breaking. With comrades like this, who needs class enemies?

June 24, 2006 | Full Review…

Derek Adams
Time Out
It's more cheerful than funny, and so insistently ungrudging about Americans and Japanese alike that its satire cuts like a wet sponge.

May 20, 2003 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Vincent Canby
New York Times
A disappointment, a movie in which the Japanese are mostly used for the mechanical requirements of the plot, and the Americans are constructed from durable but boring stereotypes.

January 1, 2000 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
Keaton is lovable, as usual, but he comes across as a dumb jerk. This was an obvious attempt at 1930s-type social comedy. Social it may have been; comedic it wasn't.

June 28, 2011 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

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June 25, 2005 | Rating: 2/5

Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
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June 6, 2005 | Rating: 3/5

Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette
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May 15, 2005 | Rating: 3/5

Mike McGranaghan
Aisle Seat
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May 6, 2005 | Rating: 3/5

Caffeinated Clint
Film Threat
Delivers plenty of laughs and cross-cultural insights in this drama about the contrast between American and Japanese attitudes toward work.

August 26, 2004 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality & Practice

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Audience Reviews for Gung Ho

Apr 16, 2014

Gung Ho is a brilliantly hilarious political satire from director Ron Howard. Starring Michael Keaton, Gedde Watanabe, George Wendt, John Turturro, and Mimi Rogers, the cast is quite strong and gives some really good performances; especially Keaton, who's comedic gold. The story follows a closed down car factory that gets reopened by a Japanese company, but the differences between the American and the Japanese work ethic soon puts the factory's future in jeopardy. The comedy is well-written and does an impressive job with the cultural humor. A good natured film about friendship and teamwork, Gung Ho is tremendously fun and entertaining.

Dann M Super Reviewer
Oct 27, 2012

Almost okay for the times. Way too dated now.

Christian C Super Reviewer
Jun 08, 2009

Good auto makers movie,Micheal Keaton is very underated.

Lee K Super Reviewer
May 20, 2007

Half hearted culture clash comedy packed with racial stereotypes and (surprise surprise) life lessons. The fact that the arrogance of the US workers wavers when they come to understand their japanese counterparts gives the film some small merit, but it's horribly contrived and just plain unfunny.

xGary X Super Reviewer