Shockingly bad. I can't fathom how people found this funny

Rating: 4/10 (29 April 2011)

In some circles, this is considered a classic of 1980s comedy. I'm something of an aficionado of 80s comedies, having grown up in that decade (though admittedly 1981 is a bit early for me). I must say, this is no classic. It's a boring piece of crap. Bill Murray is somewhat charismatic as a bum who joins the Army along with his best friend, played by Harold Ramis. Together they lead a rag-tag group of losers under the command of Warren Oates (who died less than a year after this film was released). Among them are John Candy and Judge Reinhold. John Laroquette and Sean Young also appear. There's barely a laugh in the picture (Candy made me chuckle once in a great while), and the heroes are such unlikeable douches you almost can't wait to see them courtmartialed for their "hilarious" antics (of course it ends with them receiving medals for actions which, I imagine, would have begun WWIII in 1981). Just awful.