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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Major Payne


Released: 1995
Comedy
Director: Nick Castle
Starring: Damon Wayans, Michael Ironside
Running Time: 95 minutes
Rated: PG-13

The breakdown:  A Major is being discharged from the Marines and finds a new purpose at a kid's school.

So this is a goofy comedy with lots of silly bathroom humor and visual gags, but there was some of this that I did think was funny.
Major Payne loves to kill people, but the wars he's used to are drying up and the Marines discharge him from the Military.  Without anything else to do, he longs to kill something.
His C.O. finally contacts him that there is a place he's needed.
He shows up for work, only to find out, he's going to be training R.O.T.C. members in a kid's school.  The kids, for the most part, are horribly out of shape and seem to have no pride or interest in themselves or the military.  Major Payne shapes them up and makes them a cohesive family unit.

3 out of 5 for being funny where it's supposed to be.
Incidentally, I watched this movie the same day as Will Smith's Ali, and this movie was much better.

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