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What you’d expect from the poster: a wacky 80’s buddy comedy about two schlubs in over their heads doing charity work in a fish-out-of-water scenario, anchored by two great actors working off each other.
What you get: Tom Hanks as a WASPy, rich New Englander with a randomly disappearing accent, and John Candy as John Candy, kept separated for 75% of the movie. Competing subplots about two groups (an opium dealer/warlord and a faction of the Chinese army) and trying to manipulate the Peace Corps to build a bridge for different reasons. A nonsensical action movie climax that ends without resolving anything, much in the way way Stripes does. It’s not offensively bad or stupid. It’s just … basic. Very, very, very basic.
Mini Review: What you’d expect from the poster: a wacky 80’s buddy comedy about two schlubs in over their heads doing charity work in a fish-out-of-water scenario, anchored by two great actors working off each other.
What you get: Tom Hanks as a WASPy, rich New Englander with a randomly disappearing accent, and John Candy as John Candy, kept separated for 75% of the movie. Competing subplots about two groups (an opium dealer/warlord and a faction of the Chinese army) and trying to manipulate the Peace ...