This is a fact Jack, Stripes is a good movie!

Rating: 7/10 (28 June 2005)

Stripes starring Bill Murray and Harold Ramis has a low life named John Winger and his friend join the army after their lives go down the tube in two hours. Under the order of Sgt. Hulka, the army under goes a five week training class till Hulka is in an accident. This causes John to train his team before graduation, and at graduation his team performs gun marches that wows the whole supreme. They are so good, they are assigned to look after a top secret military truck that John takes into his own hands and has his team kidnapped. Now it's up to him and a few friends to rescue his platoon!
Now my first impression of the film, could of been better. The cast is made perfectly but there are to many nudity jokes and slow scenes that drags this film by the roots. But that doesn't stop Bill to stop being funny. He gives a great performance as Winger who doesn't care what happens to him in the army. Harold does a good job acting as the careful and hectic best friend Russell but the best person in this whole movie is John Candy as Dewey 'Ox" Oxburger. His scene at the strip club in the mud wrestling pit is priceless. "I'm a lean, mean, fighting machine!" This film may drag but it reaches it's goal with a good supply of action, tons of one liners that work, and love relations between two MP's and the two stars. The whole plot at the beginning switches totally when Bill and his platoon have to guard the army vehicle but the real action is in this sequence. You'll love the ending with the newspaper headlines in magazines like Penthouse and Romance Finders. Stripes gets the big 7, could of been better but it works in it's own way. Now that's the fact Jack, go out and watch a copy of Stripes! You'll love it, enjoy.