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Very disappointed!

posted 12 years ago by marmac2768
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I was a HUGE fan of Andy Griffith, especially the "Mayberry" Andy. I was really looking forward to seeing this movie because I had heard of it. However, it was one of the WORST movies of all time!! I can see where it was a flop and it is understandable. This movie was billed as a comedy and one of the movie posters even called it "uproarious"! How in the world could ANY part of this movie be called that?? It was terrible all the way from the beginning to the end.

Even Andy's performance was bad. He didn't know how to play him; he is very unsympathetic. He was an angry, always horny, ashamed of his Dad, country kid. He tries to do what's right in the end, but even it falls flat. Even the comedic scene or two that he has are very tepid.

That's 2 hours of my life I'll never get back!! Give me No Time For Sargeants andy day of the week!! OR Andy Taylor!!!

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[–] jononfire 11 years ago

Right on! Unfunny enough to be embarrassing,,,,

"Believe not what you only wish to believe, but that which truth demands."

[–] FeloniousMunk 10 years ago

Read the book in college, decades ago...it's a classic...still have it.

Saw the movie (also while in college) on the Late Show, many years ago--and hated it...I thought it really, really STUNK.

My wife (who was also the person who first clued me in to reading the book) gave me a bootlegged DVD, copied from a VHS tape, a number of Christmases ago. She bought it online from some guy in Michigan.

Watched it once and never bothered to watch it again. The movie is STILL terrible. I think I either gave the DVD away...or threw it away. It's a cinematic abortion.

Hell, if somebody gives you a copy, burn before viewing. Read the book instead...it's terrific. Even the sex parts are pretty good.

Every time you make a typo...the errorists win...

[–] jononfire 10 years ago

Hear, hear!

[–] FeloniousMunk 10 years ago

It's supposed to be a comedy, with elements of drama, as he enlists in the Coast Guard just in time for WWII...and his ship sinks a German submarine.

But it's really more of a "Nazi" (not-see) movie...sorry, couldn't resist it...

Every time you make a typo...the errorists win...

[–] gshows-1 8 years ago

I have just watched this film on TCM and enjoyed it. Andy Griffith was playing a horny self absorbed character. The truth, with rare exceptions, is the book is always better than the movie.