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Down Periscope
1995
FRASIER's Kelsey Grammer stars as inept Navy Lieutenant Tom Dodge, in this nautical slapstick comedy. He has been given one last chance to clean up his poor record but thanks to his nemesis, Admiral Graham (Bruce Dern), he is assigned the leadership of The Stingray, a rusty, creaky wreck of a submarine, that will play the role .. Read more
| Starring | Lauren Holly, Rob Schneider, Harry Dean Stanton, Bruce Dern |
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| Director | David S. Ward |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Down Periscope
FRASIER's Kelsey Grammer stars as inept Navy Lieutenant Tom Dodge, in this nautical slapstick comedy. He has been given one last chance to clean up his poor record but thanks to his nemesis, Admiral Graham (Bruce Dern), he is assigned the leadership of The Stingray, a rusty, creaky wreck of a submarine, that will play the role of the enemy in a series of practice war games. Dodge's unenviable task is made worse when he meets his crew, an eccentric, incompetent bunch that includes a flatulent cook and an accident-prone electrician. Also, as an experiment in sexual integration, a woman has come onboard to join these misfits. Dodge must find a way to shape up this motley crew, if he's ever going to prove his worth to Graham, the Navy--and himself.
| Starring | Lauren Holly, Rob Schneider, Harry Dean Stanton, Bruce Dern, Rip Torn, Kelsey Grammer, William H. Macy |
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| Director | David S. Ward |
| Studio | 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 29 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 05 Apr 2004 Production year: 1995 |
| Format | DVD |
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This is one of Kelsey Grammer's failed attempts to make an impression on the big screen. Here the Frasier star plays a useless submarine commander who will be kicked out of the navy unless he can train the hapless crew of a dilapidated sub how to outmanoeuvre the entire US fleet. The fact that director David S Ward has done this type of slapstick so many times before (Major League and its sequel; King Ralph) that he's run out of new ideas doesn't help, either. Still, Grammer tries his best, and he's well supported by the comic turns of Harry Dean Stanton, Bruce Dern, William H Macy and Rip Torn.
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Low comedy that sends up submarine movies, but sinks under the weight of some leaden jokes.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Purile, Tasteless... completely magnificent!!!!
If you laughed like a drain at Deuce Bigalo, snort like a pig when you watch scary movie, love Airplane or Police Squad, give this a go.
Kelsey Grammer is given his own command of a submarine, but Bruce Dern's Admiral character is not a fan and tries to stitch up KC with a crew of no-hopers on an decrepid diesel sub.
Ensue the David vs Goliath fight as Grammer takes on the might of the US Navy in an naval exercise to keep his captain-ship.
Ubiquitous fart jokes, (hinted at) knob-jokes and and snappy one-liners, just sit with the kids and laugh your bum off.
The electrician character can do an absolutely amazing impersonation of Frank Sinatra.. (don't ask)...
Anyway, my wife is sick of me watching this......
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
disappointed
I liked this film, but when had watched a couple of times began to notice the somewhat inconsistencies. The most glaring of which was as the sub began its run on Norfolk the USN surface picket also including a Russian missile cruiser!
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FRASIER's Kelsey Grammer stars as inept Navy Lieutenant Tom Dodge, in this nautical slapstick comedy. He has been given one last chance to clean up his poor record but thanks to his nemesis, Admiral ... -