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In the Army Now.

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Original title

In the Army Now.

Year

1994

Running time

93 min.

Country

United States

Director

Daniel Petrie Jr.

Screenwriter

Steve Zacharias, Jeff Buhai

Cast

Music

Robert Folk

Cinematography

William Wages

Producer

Hollywood Pictures

Genre

Comedy. Action | Gulf War

Synopsis

Comedian Pauly Shore goes to boot camp in this comedy adventure set in Chad. It was filmed on location in the California and Arizona deserts. Shore is cast as Bones, a dreamer who wants to open his own stereo shop with his best friend Jack. To earn the cash, Bones talks Jack into joining the Army reserves. In boot camp, they are trained as water purifiers. While in camp, they meet the feisty Christine who takes no guff from men and Fred who is afraid of everything. The foursome are called to active duty and positioned in the deserts of Chad. Through a great mix up, they find themselves driving a water tanker behind Libyan enemy lines. There they must extricate themselves and eventually save the day.

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Critics' reviews

"Whatever Shore wants to do in the movie business is his business, but the feeling here is that he could expand his audience beyond the teen set if he were to laugh at himself a little bit more."

Gene Siskel: Chicago Tribune
"There's no satire, no farce, no wit -- just dumb utterances and whimsical slapstick."

David Parkinson: Radio Times
"This is Hollywood combat at its most irritatingly banal."

Stephen Hunter: Baltimore Sun
"Being an appealing, shallow goof-off can wear thin, and Shore seems incapable of carrying a movie, even when it's a 90-minute knock-off like this"

Jeff Shannon: Seattle Times
"[An] abysmal knockoff of Stripes."

Owen Gleiberman: Entertainment Weekly
"Shore's character -- an immature, SoCal mall rat--may have been tolerable introducing videos on MTV, but 90 straight minutes of his lackadaisical schtick borders on torture."

TV Guide
"Putting Mr. Shore under the authority of a pretty female drill sergeant (Lynn Whitfield) is, along with that bad haircut, one of this film's only ways of getting laughs."

Janet Maslin: The New York Times

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