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Kelsey Grammer stars as the captain of a rust-bucket submarine who is fighting for his career by proving his skills in a contest against far more sophisticated ships. Rob Schneider provides comic support as an uptight ensign, and Lauren Holly plays an officer who has to fight her own will-they-accept-me-because-I'm-a-woman anxieties. The film didn't do well at the box office, but it is actually pretty funny, Grammer is enjoyable, and the above-the-water/below-the-water action sequences are as good as any in most submarine films. --Tom Keogh
This is a feel good movie about a Captain given a last chance to save his career, by commanding a Diesel submarine in a series of was games organised to test the navy's defenses against an underwater terrorist attack.
(The plot is not as silly as it may sound, the U.S. Navy is leasing a Swedish Vastergotland diesel to hone its sub. defenses).
Lt. Cmdr. Thomas 'Tom' Dodge (Kelsey Grammer) is given an old WWII sub and a motley crew of losers hand picked by his would-be nemesis RAdm. Yancy Graham (Bruce Dern). The film is good fun, but not overly original, have a look at "The Enemy Below" (1957), for the ocean bottom hiding scene and the sing-a-long...and also see "The Caine Mutiny" (1954) for the mutiny attempt.
Fun or not, "Down Periscope" is careful to draw a distinction between the obvious caricaturing of the "Stingray" crew and the professional no-nonsense navy represented by the "Orlando" crew; the nuclear sub sent to intercept Dodge under Cmdr. Carl Knox (William H. Macy.)
Dodge uses entertaining cunning to outsmart Knox and infuriate Graham.
He surfaces the "Stingray" in a storm, turns on his running lights and makes his crew sing loudly. All that Knox sees through his periscope is what appears to the lights of a fishing boat and all he hears on the "Orlando's" radio is a seemingly drunken redition of "Louie, Louie".
Feeling slightly absurd, Knox retires at speed,leaving Dodge free to "attack" Charleston Habour with impunity.
In the climax of the film, Dodge has Diving Officer Lt. Emily Lake (Lauren Holly) steer the "Stingray" between the propellers of a bulk carrier, to conceal his position from RAdm. Graham in hot pursuit on the "Orlando".
In layman's terms Dodge tells Lake that he needs to go through the cavitations of the big ship to hide those of the "Stingray".
See the movie Kelsey says it better.
Graham, motivated by his vendetta against Dodge, unsportingly "takes [Orlando's] Con," runs down "Stingray" on realizing the trick, and technically sinks her. However Dodge still wins the exercise, by concession of Vice Adm. Dean Winslow (Rip Torn). To assauge Dodge's disappointment at being given the "U.S.S. Rustoleum" Winslow allows him two live torpedoes to sink a dummy ship in part two of the exercise.
Dodge sinks the dummy ship before "Stingray" is destroyed.
Winslow rewards Dodge with command of a new and lead boat of a new class of nuclear sub. but graciously accedes to Dodge's "respectful request" to take his odd-ball Stingray crew with him.
The fun of the Stingray crew comes from the likes of Engineman 1st Class Brad Stepanak/ (Bradford Tatum) who wants to get kicked out of the navy because his father Vice Adm. Winslow "won't let him quit," and Seaman Buckman (Ken Hudson Campbell) who personal ventilates the "Stingray".
It's a good kick-back movie, BUT I'll leave it to you work out why The Village People sing "In the Navy" during the Credits!
Good Movie
This is one of my favorite movies. It is funny and not overly vulgar though there is some crude humor.
Fun under the open sea!
This movie is about a navy officer who has just one more chance to earn his next promotion after many years of being passed by. Of course there is always someone who doesn't want it to happen and tries to everything to make the officer fail his mission by selecting what he thinks is the worst bunch imaginable to crew the oldest, most rusted and worn out submarine available to the navy. But if the officer is successful with his mission, he may just get the promotion that he's worked so hard for.
I thought that this movie was quite hilarious. I'm sure that the concept is totally off the deep end, but you never know! The slapstick humor is funny, but there's also a sense of teamwork and learning. I would recommend this movie to anyone who just wants a good laugh, although our military men and women would probably get a kick out of the seemingly apparent lack of discipline but resourcefulness of the crew.
Fans of the early-'60s sitcom are naturally disappointed by this more juvenile approach to the old concept, which found Navy Captain McHale commanding a merry band of hustlers in the Pacific. Tom Arnold plays the updated title character, and while there's every reason he could have done a fine job, the script eschews the show's tone for something broader and dumber. A lost opportunity, all right, and the original McHale, Ernest Borgnine, appears to give it his blessing with a cameo as Pentagon brass. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Tom Arnold - Dean Stockwell - Ernest Borgnine Director(s): Bryan Spicer DVD Release Date: Released the 03 June 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Steve Martin is simply the funniest guy in show business. A great remake of a classic. No one can play characters the way Steve can and this movie is sure to entertain one and all. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Steve Martin Director(s): Jonathan Lynn DVD Release Date: Released the 30 June 1998 Usually ships in 24 hours
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With a tantalizing "what-if?" scenario and a respectable cast of Hollywood veterans, The Final Countdown plays like a grand-scale episode of The Twilight Zone. It's really no more than that, and time-travel movies have grown far more sophisticated since this popular 1980 release, but there's still some life remaining in the movie's basic premise: What if a modern-era Navy aircraft carrier--in this case the real-life nuclear-powered U.S.S. Nimitz--was caught in an anomalous storm and thrust 40 years backwards in time to the eve of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor? Will the ship's commander (Kirk Douglas) interfere with history? Will the visiting systems analyst (Martin Sheen) convince him not to? Will a rescued senator from 1941 (Charles Durning) play an unexpected role... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Kirk Douglas - Martin Sheen - Katharine Ross Director(s): Don Taylor DVD Release Date: Released the 30 March 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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A very funny but at the same time sad film about the Pentagon's major mission in life- Weopons procurement. And you thought it was protecting the Republic? Silly Child! More Info about this DVD Director(s): Richard Benjamin DVD Release Date: Released the 31 May 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Blake Edwards's delightful 1959 comedy stars Cary Grant as a World War II submarine captain whose preference for a by-the-book command reluctantly yields to certain realities. Chief among those is that Grant's first officer (Tony Curtis, who impersonated Grant that same year in Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot), a shameless hustler, is better than the navy at delivering whatever supplies the ship and crew need to keep going. But when Curtis sneaks a handful of Philippine refugees and several gorgeous nurses onto the all-male sub, the skipper not only has to cool down his crew but deal with an unexpected feminine influence on ship protocol. The film is a great deal of fun, sprinkled with the director's trademark sight gags (including one of Edwards's best, involving a torpedo and... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Cary Grant - Tony Curtis Director(s): Blake Edwards DVD Release Date: Released the 18 September 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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