In the process, the rest of the platoon, Hulka, and Hulka's immediate superior, self-absorbed Captain Stillman, get caught unofficially behind enemy Communist lines in Czechoslovakia. John and Russell decide to take the EM-50 for an unauthorized test drive to visit Stella and Louise who have been reassigned to West Germany. But what happens during basic leads to their entire platoon being assigned to an overseas mission in Italy, to test a new urban assault vehicle, the EM-50 project. Their entire platoon is in jeopardy of not graduating.
Two of their saving graces are Stella and Louise, two MPs who get them out of one scrape after another. However, it is still John that is constantly butting heads with their drill sergeant, Sergeant Hulka. In basic training, they are only two of a bunch of misfits that comprise their platoon. It’s impossible to come away from “Stripes” disliking Murray, Ramis or Candy, but the film itself is hard to embrace.At the end of a very bad day when he realizes his life has gone and is going nowhere, John Winger is able to convince his best friend, Russell Ziskey, whose life is not much better, to enlist in the army, despite they not being obvious soldier material. But even the 1-hour, 46-minute theatrical cut must be a lot to sit through when you’re watching a standard boot-camp structure with something funny once every 15 minutes. I’ll add a bonus half-star to my rating to account for the fact that the filmmakers know this version is too long for a first-time viewer it’s for fans. Stoles as Stella here) are truly giggling at Murray’s antics and not merely playing a part. I watched the extended-length version of “Stripes,” which has 16 additional minutes – including Murray doing something he’s weirdly great at, making sex scenes hilarious. (By the way, while the “urban assault vehicle” might be a parody of military actions versus civilians if the film was more recent, it seems to be entirely coincidental in 1981.)
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The movie is handcuffed from being either funny or serious it’s just a slog. The near-futurist: All 28 Michael Crichton novels, ranked It never shows our heroes actually killing people, because that would change the movie’s tone too much, but at the same time, we’re always aware that it doesn’t show killings. The goofy troop – without a leader because Hulka is sidelined – leaves Italy for Germany in a prototype RV-looking urban assault vehicle and actually engages in machine-gun battles with Russian soldiers.
Candy mud-wrestling scantily clad women is naturally amusing, but this sequence – while standing out as something you don’t see in every comedy - lacks focus. Introduce a ridiculous setting and then have talented people improvise their way through it. The mud-wrestling club scene is a good example of the Murray-Ramis-Reitman school of comedy. Stillman’s (John Larroquette) telescope go flying through windows.
The film also makes good use of the fragility of glass in cinema, as basketballs and Capt. My favorite gags in “Stripes” are John’s and Russell’s sign-up scene, wherein they say they’ve never been convicted of a crime, and, while they are not homosexuals, they are willing to learn. Compare Oates to Ted Knight’s over-the-top performance as the rich guy in “Caddyshack” for the difference between dramatic acting and comedic acting in a comedy.
John does, and Hulka socks him in the stomach, affirming who is boss. Hulka could be a boot-camp instructor in a non-comedy, and that’s a problem here because no scene with him is funny the arc reaches the typical crescendo wherein Hulka taunts John into taking a swing at him. Hulka (Warren Oates, a real-life military veteran) rides the “comedian” John. Once they do, Ramis and co-writers Len Blum and Daniel Goldberg use a standard boot camp structure wherein Sgt. Maybe it gets a pass because it’s so obvious that people like John and Russell and Ox would not join the Army in reality. Made at a time when the citizenry wasn’t particularly high on the Army, coming off Vietnam, “Stripes” views it all as a joke – although it’s still surprising that you rarely hear nationalists call the film blasphemous.
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