Synopsis
Retired Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale spends his days puttering around the Caribbean in the old PT-73 selling homebrew, ice cream, and swimsuit calendars. He's brought out of retirement when his old nemesis turned the second best terrorist in the world, Major Vladikov, takes over the island of San Moreno and starts building a nuclear launch silo on it. With help from his old crew and hindrances from Captain Wallace B. Binghampton, who sank a cruise liner a while back, McHale tries to put Vladikov out of business.
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Cast
- Tom ArnoldLt. Cmdr. Quinton McHale
- Dean StockwellCapt. Wallace B. Binghampton
- Debra MessingLt. Penelope Carpenter
- David Alan GrierEnsign Charles Parker
- Bruce CampbellVirgil
- French StewartHappy
- Tim CurryMaj. Vladikov
- Ernest BorgnineAdmiral Quinton McHale Sr.
- Danton StoneGruber
- Brian HaleyChristy
Recommendations
- 50
The New York Times
Leaky PT boat of a comedy, descended from the television series. - 50
Variety
Time and adapters have not been kind to the fun-loving series. - 40
Los Angeles Times
Although it comes under the increasingly crowded category of Why Did They Bother, McHale's Navy does offer an example of a movie that tries to be all things to all people. As long as they're 13 and male. - 25
TV Guide Magazine
This shotgun marriage of coarse laughs and low-rent action cliches is, of course, utterly predictable: Cutting-edge comedy isn't lurking under the corpses of old TV shows. - 25
Chicago Sun-Times
McHale's Navy is an astonishingly bad film. Even if you never saw the early '60s TV series on which it is loosely based, you'll hate it. [18 Apr 1997, p.39] - 20
Empire
A damp squib of a movie. - 12
Philadelphia Inquirer
If the '60s sitcom McHale's Navy was a poor man's Sergeant Bilko, the new big-screen McHale is a poverty-stricken, starving-to-death, brain-dead person's answer to last year's not-so-hot Steve Martin movie, Sgt. Bilko. [19 Apr 1997, p.D08] - 0
San Francisco Chronicle
It's even less funny than it sounds. By the end, this soporific comedy makes 105 minutes feel more like a two-year hitch.
