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All Critics (26) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (5)
Broderick acts with a beautifully wary exuberance, full of a puckish vulnerability and anxious, twisted impishness. Oct 26, 2011 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Broderick acts with a beautifully wary exuberance, full of a puckish vulnerability and anxious, twisted impishness.
Michael Wilmington
Perhaps this movie isn't as wise or as profound as Simon wants it to be, but it is certainly a cut above sitcom complacency, and packed with wit and charm. Oct 26, 2011 | Full Review…
Perhaps this movie isn't as wise or as profound as Simon wants it to be, but it is certainly a cut above sitcom complacency, and packed with wit and charm.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Playing a character perched precisely on the point between adolescence and manhood, Broderick is enjoyable all the way. Mar 26, 2009 | Full Review…
Playing a character perched precisely on the point between adolescence and manhood, Broderick is enjoyable all the way.
Variety Staff
Suffice it to say it is suicidally against the grain. Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…
Suffice it to say it is suicidally against the grain.
With superb performances by Mr. Broderick and Christopher Walken, who plays Mr. Simon's nearly unhinged, very funny variation on the drill sergeant of movie myth, ''Biloxi Blues'' has a fully satisfying lif...[ END HERE ] of its own May 20, 2003 | Rating: 4/5
With superb performances by Mr. Broderick and Christopher Walken, who plays Mr. Simon's nearly unhinged, very funny variation on the drill sergeant of movie myth, ''Biloxi Blues'' has a fully satisfying lif...[ END HERE ] of its own
Vincent Canby
The movie Mike Nichols has directed from the play is pale, shallow, unconvincing and predictable, and tells us less about the characters than we already know. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
The movie Mike Nichols has directed from the play is pale, shallow, unconvincing and predictable, and tells us less about the characters than we already know.
Roger Ebert
The combination of Neil Simon and Mike Nichols has the pair of them back to somewhere near their best. Oct 26, 2011 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The combination of Neil Simon and Mike Nichols has the pair of them back to somewhere near their best.
An intelligent, tightly constructed film which manages to satirize both the military and the process of growing up. Oct 26, 2011 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
An intelligent, tightly constructed film which manages to satirize both the military and the process of growing up.
The acting honors are stolen by Christopher Walken. Nov 12, 2008 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
The acting honors are stolen by Christopher Walken.
Dennis Schwartz
Odd blend of comedy and terrorizing between Broderick and Walken. Jun 25, 2005 | Rating: 3/5
Odd blend of comedy and terrorizing between Broderick and Walken.
Steve Crum
Great performances elevate Simon's amusing and nostalgic tale. Aug 8, 2003 | Rating: 4/5
Great performances elevate Simon's amusing and nostalgic tale.
Rob Thomas
Charts a Jewish boy's rite of passage into adulthood during 1943 as an Army Recruit. Jul 15, 2003 | Full Review…
Charts a Jewish boy's rite of passage into adulthood during 1943 as an Army Recruit.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
"Biloxi Blues is about Eugene Morris Jerome who is drafted and shipped off to boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi near the end of World War II. Right off the train Jerome immediately falls under Sgt. Toomey's shit list. Jerome is sarcastic and Toomey is a little off in the head, so they really don't mesh well together. Toomey targets Jerome for most of the film making him the outcast along with his fellow soldier Epstein, who is constantly put on latrine duty. Jerome learns a lot about himself during his time in Biloxi and has a lot of firsts. I must admit that losing his virginity has to be one of the funnier moments in the film. The way he's climbing all over her like a monkey was pretty funny. Walken and Broderick have great chemistry on screen and give really good performances. But Walken steals the show. The film is enjoyable and I really liked it. I would for sure see this again."
Super Reviewer
A warm and fuzzy version of the classic boot camp drama. Not to bad, but not that great either.
Another corny adaption of a Neil Simon play. It is horribly acted by Matthew Broderick, who cannot act outside of a John Hughes film. It is a terrible coming of age story and a dime a dozen. The only redeeming quality was a rather good performance from Christopher Walken as a drill instructor.
In my own defense, it takes a little moxie to post a favorable review of this movie when every "critic" and their brother panned it. So, do I have the moxie to do it? Do I have the big brass kahunas it takes to stand up and be counted? Maybe. Maybe not. What I do have is relative anonymity and that, my friends, is worth a pound and a half of moxie any day. I like this film. There, I said it. Neil Simon's stage-play may have lost a little 'umph!' in the translation to the big screen, but if you've never seen the Broadway production then you'll never know the difference. Park Overall is good, Christopher Walken is great and Matthew Broderick is fantastic. If you like Neil Simon's unique brand of comedy or if you like nostalgic takes on 1940's Americana or even if you just enjoy films about psychotic drill sergeants with plates in their heads, I think you'll get a kick out of Biloxi Blues.
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