
Retired Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale (Tom Arnold) 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 Vladakov (Tim Curry), 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 (Dean Stockwell... (Full plot summary below)
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Retired Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale (Tom Arnold) 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 Vladakov (Tim Curry), 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 (Dean Stockwell), who sank a cruise liner a while back, McHale tries to put Vladakov out of business.
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| The New York TimesStephen HoldenLeaky PT boat of a comedy, descended from the television series. |
| VarietyLeonard KladyTime and adapters have not been kind to the fun-loving series. |
| Los Angeles TimesJohn AndersonAlthough 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. |
| TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThis 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. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaIt's even less funny than it sounds. By the end, this soporific comedy makes 105 minutes feel more like a two-year hitch. |
| Austin ChronicleRussell SmithNo originality, no memorable characters, no comic timing, and no good jokes equal no fun for the audience. |