A Vietnam Comedy?

Rating: 5/10 (27 April 2005)

I have to be hard on this film because of th idea of it. Good Morning Vietnam could have been a great drama, instead it was a "so so" comedy with a Robin Williams audience. Since about only 40% of this movie is fictional it is hard to give this movie any credit for being historically correct. Robin Williams is funny as always, still the movie plays both sides of the fence, most of the time, leaning on the anti-war side. Without Robin Williams, you have a story which is suppose to be a comedy about the Vietnam war. Hard to do, and without taste, if I may add. A nice movie, but far from anything timeless or terrific. Forest Whitaker continues to find work as he co-stars next to Williams. Always in deep though with a twitch to his giant neck, you can't really tell if Whitaker knows that he is being filmed...