Major Payne

"While 'Major Payne' is too predictable for most adults, it’s an ideal entertainment for youthful audiences" 

"Although the plot of the movie is a familiar formula, the dialogue and performance are not; it's a smart, funny job of poking fun at all those movies where sadistic drill instructors terrorized their green recruits (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)" 

"[It] takes about an hour and 10 minutes before it wallows in sappiness. That's not a bad record for a formula family comedy in which the ending is clear from the start." 

"It certainly has spit and polish and runs through its drill with admirable precision" 

"This fumbling and formulaic semiremake of 'The Private War of Major Benson' (1955) is basically just an excuse to let comic Damon Wayans (...) strut his stuff"