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- 1986
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
- 1986
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
Summary When a Japanese car company buys an American plant, the American liaison must mediate the clash of cultures.
Directed By: Ron Howard
Written By: Edwin Blum, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
- 1986
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
- 1986
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
Gung Ho
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7.4
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Summary When a Japanese car company buys an American plant, the American liaison must mediate the clash of cultures.
Directed By: Ron Howard
Written By: Edwin Blum, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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22% Positive
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78% Mixed
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
48
22% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
78% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Negative
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The film would be funnier and more provocative if it took a stronger stand on one side or the other, but Howard chooses to hedge his bets, selecting an ending that celebrates brotherhood more than the strongly hinted- at notion that American workers would do well to get off their featherbedding backs.
Drawn from real life, the conflict between cultures is good for both a laugh and a sober thought along the way.
The movie isn't really about America and Japan at all; it's about set-ups for gags. [14 Mar 1986, p.D2]
Howard entices us into overlooking the film's faults with some genuinely amusing scenes, particularly those featuring Japanese-American Gedde Watanabe as a beleaguered Assan executive who doesn't fit the corporate mold. [14 Mar 1986, p.27]
I think the fault is in the screenplay, which tells a story that can be predicted almost from the opening frames. The people who wrote this movie did not bother, or dare, to give us truly individual Japanese characters; there is only one who is developed with any care.
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.
It's more cheerful than funny, and so insistently ungrudging about Americans and Japanese alike that its satire cuts like a wet sponge.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
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Generally Favorable
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7.4
60% Positive
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