Goooooooooooooood Morning, Vietnam!

Rating: 7/10 (2 January 2010)

I've been trying to watch this movie for ages without any success. I heard that Robin Williams makes wonders in this film. Finally I managed to watch this movie, now that the new year has arrived.
The movie itself is okay, although in many ways better than I expected. But indeed Robin Williams is pure genius in this one! This is one of his very best performances, along with 'Dead Poets Society', 'Hook', 'Aladdin', 'A.I.' and 'Popeye'.
Set in Saigon during the Vietnam War, this is also a war movie. It's not entirely comedy. Robin Williams also does a great job in drama here, but it's his comedy skills that really make him shine. This is Robin Williams at his best! Robin portrays Adrian Cronauer, a disc jockey on Armed Forces Radio Service who greatly amuses the troops serving in South Vietnam but angers his superiors with his irreverence (they don't have any sense of humor, really - or they're envious of him). But, unlike Robin's character, the real Adrian wasn't that funny.
Robin is hysterical whenever he is on the air: he makes voices (typically Robin), he mixes unusual humor with news updates... and I loved it whenever he starts his show by yelling «Gooooooooooood Morning, Vietnam!», as well as whenever he pretends to be a teacher.
Robin also puts nice music in this film, such as Beach Boys, James Brown's "I Feel Good" and Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World". There are some errors of dates, though. The movie takes place in 1965 and the song "What a Wonderful World" came out in 1967. But that detail is not to be taken very seriously.
Trinh, the Thai girl, is quite pretty. Whoever is the actress who portrayed this character, she did a good job.
Overall, a reasonable film without being great. It is particularly worthy for Robin Williams's genial humor which takes this movie far. Robin was so fun in this movie.