Review of Stripes (1981) by Campbell P — 11 Oct 2014
Stripes is a perfect example of a solid comedy. It provides a lot of good laughs and a good plot to go around it. John and Russell have nothing to do with their lives so they decide to go enlist in the US army.
Along the way we meet funny characters (most notably Ox) and get treated to a really funny training session. All the people who enlisted in John's group are nutjobs and get themselves into more trouble with their sergeant than anything.
Bill Murray plays the same guy he used to play and is really good at what he did. Harold Ramis (R.I.P.) plays his hilarious partner in crime who plays out his humor to the maximum. Although the story was very funny there wasn't enough to take from this movie.
The only thing you really learned was that determination gets you places which is a bit overdone but that kinda thing doesn't especially matter here. Stripes was a very funny and clever point of view on a war training and war zone environment and gets comedy geniuses to play the lead parts.
This Bill Murray classic has a very high rewatch value too and will hopefully get to see it more. B.
This review of Stripes (1981) was written by Campbell P on 11 Oct 2014.
Stripes has generally received positive reviews.
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