Review of Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) by Alison C — 06 Dec 2008

Funny and good. Forest Whitaker even then was a good actor.

This review of Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) was written by Alison C on 06 Dec 2008.

Good Morning, Vietnam has generally received positive reviews.

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By Cathy Burke (83) for United Press International (113) on 08 Nov 2016

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By Kevin C (1,734) on 01 Aug 2015

Movie night with Iris. Essentially freestyle Williams. The plot is wafer thin, and it doesn't really criticise the US being in Vietnam…

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Putting the team on his or her back is a recent pop-culture phrase most commonly associated with sporting events, however the idiom appears…

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What you end up with in Good Morning, Vietnam is a peculiar hybrid -- a Robin Williams concert movie welded clumsily onto the plot from an…

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By Vlad M (135) on 22 Dec 2016

Excellent Robin Williams performance filled with-- and about-- levity and humanity in the wrong places…

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This was bad, and by bad I mean really **** bad…

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