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Title: McHale's Navy (1997)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Tom Arnold | ... | Lt. Cmdr. Quinton McHale | |
| Dean Stockwell | ... | Capt. Wallace B. Binghampton | |
| Debra Messing | ... | Lt. Penelope Carpenter | |
| David Alan Grier | ... | Ensign Charles Parker | |
| Tim Curry | ... | Maj. Vladakov | |
| Ernest Borgnine | ... | Cobra | |
| Bruce Campbell | ... | Virgil | |
| French Stewart | ... | Happy | |
| Danton Stone | ... | Gruber | |
| Brian Haley | ... | Christy | |
| Henry Cho | ... | Willie | |
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Anthony Jesse Cruz | ... | Roberto Valenzuela |
| Honorato Magaloni | ... | Castro | |
| Guillermo Ríos | ... | Jose | |
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Eduardo López Rojas | ... | Gonzales (as Eduardo Lopez Rojas) |
Retired Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale (Tom Arnold) 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 Vladakov (Tim Curry), takes over the island of San Moreno and starts building a nuclear launch silo on it. With help from his old crew and hindrances from Captain Wallace B. Binghampton (Dean Stockwell), who sank a cruise liner a while back, McHale tries to put Vladakov out of business. Written by Jeff Cross <blackjac_1998@yahoo.com>
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I just caught this movie on Encore. I'd never had much interest in seeing it based on the negative comments that have been made about it. It was much better than I (and a lot of other people) gave it credit for being. I came to the IMDB site because the credits went by too fast and I wanted to check some of the actors. I was surprised to find that so many people really disliked this film. First of all, I'd like to point out that the original show was fantasy. C'mon--does anyone really think that the series represented what it was like in the South Pacific during the Second World War? It also doesn't give you much of a starting point except the characters and their interactions. With apologies to Tim Conway, Joe Flynn, et. al., the original series had only one star--Ernest Borgnine. It was called McHale's Navy for a reason. So it's fitting that Tom Arnold should be the focus of the movie. I think they did keep to the spirit of the original series and, where these comments started, the movie was just as much a fantasy as the series was. In terms of the plot, it too kept with the spirit of the original series. For those of you looking for plot depth or profound characters missed the point of both the series and the movie. It was supposed to be entertainment, escapism, with a mild segue into reality. If you want something profound, watch Schindler's List or something by Kurasawa, or anything Shakespeare by Brannagh. But don't ask me to eat the same thing for dinner each night--I'll get tired of it and I'll yearn for cotton candy. Movies of this type are called "guilty pleasures." They're supposed to be fun. Having said that, one man's fun is another man's Bergman. This movie isn't going to be everyone's cup of tea but it isn't a bad movie. Just take it for what it is--a little bit of fun, a little bit of fantasy.