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| Columbia Pictures | Release Date: June 26, 1981 |
Starring:
Bill Murray, John Candy
Summary:
Two old friends who are dissatisfied with their lives decide to join the army to mix things up.
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The picture is just a flimsy, thrown-together service comedy about smart misfits trying to do things their own way in the Army. But it has a lot of snappy lines (the script is by Len Blum, Dan Goldberg, and Ramis), the director, Ivan Reitman, keeps things hopping (it's untidy but it doesn't lag), and the performers are a wily bunch of professional flakes.
Stripes is a cheerful, mildly outrageous and mostly amiable comedy pitting a new generation of enlistees against the oversold lure of a military hungry for bodies and not too choosy about what it gets. There’s little in the way of art or comic subtlety here, but the film really seems to work.
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IN THE BEGINNING, Ivan Reitman begat Animal House and Animal House begat
Meatballs and Meatballs begat Stripes. In the end, the box-office deity
surveyed this handiwork and pronounced it good. Good and stale. For you
can tamper with the setting, you can fiddle with the cast but, by all
that's holy in the land of the cash flow, don't ever mess with a lucrative
premise. [27 June 1981]
Nov 14, 2020
A fantastic comedy. The satirical story and characters are a perfect representation of America circa 1980s.
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Jun 20, 2020
a lot of up & coming actors in this cheesy but funny caper. Could be called a precursor for the police academy movies.
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Apr 22, 2020
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