My personal favorite military comedy movie.

Rating: 8/10 (10 June 2008)

This movie is a very funny comedy starring a rather great cast. Bill Murray is the headliner and Ramis is also rather good too. Backing them up are an assortment of goof balls including the late John Candy in one of his better roles. The story, guy is having a bad go of it at the job and his social life. So what does he decide to do? Well he joins the army of course and even manages to convince a friend of his to join him. Well the army is not quite what either of them expect as they seemed to be in a set of the worst recruits ever...not that they are any better and a bunch of funny scenes ensue including the introduction scene where you learn some of the guys motivations for entering the army including weight loss and one guy who figured he would be eventually drafted anyway even when there is no more draft. Plenty of great training, a bar scene involving a mud wrestling arena and a heroic rescue. Of course, the movie is at its funniest during the training scenes and their adjustments to army life. The last part of the film seems kind of stuck on to extend the movie a bit longer. Not that it is bad, just not up to the first two thirds of the film.