Yes, this is a hysterically stupid film, and I love it. And I am sure I will always love it. It is so much fun. Now if only WATER would get a special edition DVD, that would be really special. Ha. Yea, this film is so much fun. One of Bill Murray’s first movies, plus he got to work with Harold Ramis on screen for one of the first times. What a great and fun cast, and the extra 18 minutes of footage is wonderful for any fan of these films, especially the strange AWOL sequence where they go with a special forces team, and Harold is on Microdots. Totally hysterical. Not sure why I hate stupid comedies from today, but damn do I love these comedies from when I grew up! And what a cast, John Candy, John Larroquette, Warren Oates, Jusge Reinhold, I mean come on. The disc also has 2 documentaries with interviews with most of the cast (Bill Murray is in Japan doing Lost In Translation in strange little clips) and commentary as well.

REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS….

This is the story of total loser John Winger (Bill Murray) whose entire life falls apart because he is such an unmotivated loser, and he convinces his best friend Russell Ziskey (Harold Ramis) to go with him and join the army. John immediately crashes with their drill sergeant Hulka (Warren Oates), and doesn’t make too many friends among the troops. Their Captain (John Larroquette) is an idiot as well, and eventually Hulka is injured in an “accidental” mortar round, and the boys must finish basic without any help, and they show up late to graduation and impress the general enough to be put in charge of the EM50, an armored RV, that the boys take for a ride to see their MP girlfriends Louise Cooper (Sean Young) and Stella Hansen (P.J. Soles), and the platoon thinks they have gone to Russia, so they go in and get kidnapped, so the boys must save them.

This film is silly and hysterical fun, and the docs are amazing, and hysterical, and you can tell how much everyone loved the filmed, because they all want to talk about it.