McHale's Navy
Universal Pictures | Release Date: April 18, 1997 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
18
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
3
Negative:
7
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50
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Leaky PT boat of a comedy, descended from the television series. Read full review
50
VarietyLeonard Klady
Time and adapters have not been kind to the fun-loving series. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesJohn Anderson
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. Read full review
25
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
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. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesBob Kurson
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
EmpireStaff (Not Credited)
A damp squib of a movie. Read full review
12
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
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 ChronicleMick LaSalle
It's even less funny than it sounds. By the end, this soporific comedy makes 105 minutes feel more like a two-year hitch. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleRussell Smith
No originality, no memorable characters, no comic timing, and no good jokes equal no fun for the audience. Read full review
0
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Not funny, suspenseful, moving or even offensive enough to want to torpedo. Just devoid of any conceivable value. [19 Apr 1997, p.C13]
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