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  • 1997
  • PG
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 1997
  • PG
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 48 m

Summary Retired Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale spends his days puttering around the Caribbean in the old PT-73 selling homebrew, ice cream, and swimsuit calendars. He's brought out of retirement when his old nemesis turned the second best terrorist in the world, Major Vladikov, takes over the island of San Moreno and starts building a nucle...

Directed By: Bryan Spicer

Written By: Peter Crabbe, Andy Rose

  • 1997
  • PG
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 1997
  • PG
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 48 m

McHale's Navy

Metascore Overwhelming Dislike Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary Retired Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale spends his days puttering around the Caribbean in the old PT-73 selling homebrew, ice cream, and swimsuit calendars. He's brought out of retirement when his old nemesis turned the second best terrorist in the world, Major Vladikov, takes over the island of San Moreno and starts building a nucle...

Directed By: Bryan Spicer

Written By: Peter Crabbe, Andy Rose

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Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike Based on 10 Critic Reviews
18
0% Positive
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30% Mixed
3 Reviews
70% Negative
7 Reviews

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Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike Based on 10 Critic Reviews
18
0% Positive
0 Reviews
30% Mixed
3 Reviews
70% Negative
7 Reviews

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50
Time and adapters have not been kind to the fun-loving series.
By Leonard Klady FULL REVIEW
40
Although it comes under the increasingly crowded category of Why Did They Bother, McHale's Navy does offer an example of a movie that tries to be all things to all people. As long as they're 13 and male.
By John Anderson FULL REVIEW
25
McHale's Navy is an astonishingly bad film. Even if you never saw the early '60s TV series on which it is loosely based, you'll hate it. [18 Apr 1997, p.39]
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A damp squib of a movie.
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12
If the '60s sitcom McHale's Navy was a poor man's Sergeant Bilko, the new big-screen McHale is a poverty-stricken, starving-to-death, brain-dead person's answer to last year's not-so-hot Steve Martin movie, Sgt. Bilko. [19 Apr 1997, p.D08]
By Steven Rea FULL REVIEW
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No originality, no memorable characters, no comic timing, and no good jokes equal no fun for the audience.
By Russell Smith FULL REVIEW
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It's even less funny than it sounds. By the end, this soporific comedy makes 105 minutes feel more like a two-year hitch.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Sheinberg Productions, The Bubble Factory
Release Date Apr 18, 1997
Duration 1 h 48 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline Dare to rock the boat.
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Awards

The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Razzie Awards
• 1 Nomination

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