
A new Disc Jockey is shipped from Crete to Vietnam to bring humor to Armed Forces Radio. He turns the studio on its ear and becomes wildly popular with the troops but runs afoul of the middle management who think he isn't G.I. enough. While he is off the air, he tries to meet Vietnamese especially girls, and begins to have brushes with the real war that never appears on the radio.... (Full plot summary below)
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A new Disc Jockey is shipped from Crete to Vietnam to bring humor to Armed Forces Radio. He turns the studio on its ear and becomes wildly popular with the troops but runs afoul of the middle management who think he isn't G.I. enough. While he is off the air, he tries to meet Vietnamese especially girls, and begins to have brushes with the real war that never appears on the radio.
Leave your thoughts about Good Morning, Vietnam.
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertGood Morning, Vietnam works as straight comedy and as a Vietnam-era MASH, and even the movie’s love story has its own bittersweet integrity. |
| Flipside Movie EmporiumRob VauxIts success hinges directly on your ability to handle large amounts of Robin Williams. |
| VarietyVariety StaffFrom the start, the film bowls you over with excitement and for those who can latch on, it's a nonstop ride. |
| Filmcritic.comEric Meyersona story about a mere class clown becoming a man at the gates of Hell. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyGood Morning, Vietnam, directed by Barry Levinson (Diner, Tin Men) succeeds in doing something that's very rare in movies, being about a character who really is as funny as he's supposed to be to most of the people sharing the fiction with him. It's also a breakthrough for Mr. Williams, who, for the first time in movies, gets a chance to exercise his restless, full-frontal comic intelligence. |
| EmpireBarry McilheneyOne of Levinson's best films, and one of Hollywood's best films on the whole Vietnam subject. |
| Miami HeraldBill CosfordOffering only hackneyed insights into the war, the film makes for stodgy drama. But Williams' manic monologues behind the mike are worth anybody's money. |
| Common Sense MediaAfsheen NomaiRobin Williams at his scatalogical finest. |
| 7M PicturesKevin CarrGood Morning Vietnam remains one of my favorite films about the Vietnam war because of its comedic take and ability to slip into real drama when needed. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonGood Morning, Vietnam stumbles whenever Williams isn't behind the mike, placing him in melodramatic, hackneyed situations that become increasingly predictable and preposterous, and director Barry Levinson's seemingly endless reaction shots of listeners grooving to the DJ's antics become irritating. Levinson manages, however, to be one of the few filmmakers to show the Vietnamese as complex, cultured people, rather than as helpless victims or the faceless enemy. |