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Stripes (Unrated Extended Cut) | 
 enlarge | Director: Ivan Reitman
Actors: Bill Murray, John Candy, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P.j. Soles
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  110 reviews
Sales Rank: 3605
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 106
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: COLD05994D
UPC: 043396059948
EAN: 0043396059948
ASIN: B0008JIJ2O
Theatrical Release Date: June 26, 1981
Release Date: June 7, 2005
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Bill Murray was heading toward a career peak on the back of comedies such as this one from 1981, the second film in his ongoing collaboration with director Ivan Reitman (the two went on to make Ghostbusters). Murray plays a chronic loser who joins the army and fails to find a fan for his ironic sensibilities in his by-the-book sergeant (Warren Oates). When push comes to shove, however, the smirking hero takes charge of his ragtag unit and turns them into fighting machines, albeit to the rhythm of hit songs by Manfred Mann and Sly Stone. The film is occasionally funny, but it mostly plays like any one of a dozen underachieving comedies featuring players from Saturday Night Live and SCTV. --Tom Keogh
Product Description
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 09/25/2007 Run time: 107 minutes Rating: R
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 You can't leave!! All the plants will die!! January 7, 2009
Most people put Caddy Shack as Bill Murrays so-called signiture movie. Wrong. Stripes was it and still is. It was post-SNL Bill at his total best and full of confidence. It's also kind of an intersting period piece as well. In sort of a twisted way, it shows the U.S. military in its recovery mode shortly after Vietnam when they were trying to do a bit of image rebuilding. Not that Murray was a poster child or anything, he and the writers simply took the logo "Todays Army" and colored it a bit different. Everyone has a small batch of DVD's that they hang onto as their personal stash, and watch maybe a couple of times a year and have classic scenes that they can lip sync along with. Stripes has lots of them.
 Stripes: sophomoric humor at its medium... December 26, 2008
In The Simpsons, Sideshow Bob has a tendency to step on rakes with his big feet, crashing the handle into his face. The sound he utters is a kind of a vocal shudder: "ahrhbbbahrhbbbbahrhbbbbbahrhbbbbbahrhbbb."
I felt like repeating this throughout the movie.
In Stripes, Bill Murray joins the US Army. He makes it through boot camp with his "reject authority" attitude, then gets sent to Europe where, of course, everybody else is stupid. At times, he gives you that Caddyshack "lip droop"; otherwise he's just smirking, joking, and being sarcastic.
This was pretty sophomoric throughout. Lots of sex jokes, partial nudity, army officers are all stupid, yada yada.
Stripes might have started off Bill Murray's movie career, but this one should have gotten him a Golden Raspberry Award ("Razzie"). Now John Candy showed some serious comedic acting. Go John!
Want a movie in the "boot camp changes a person" genre? Try The Waterboys.
 2.5 stars out of 4 December 18, 2008
The Bottom Line:
Though Stripes has its amusing moments, almost all of them occur in the first half; after the movie leaves boot camp it never recovers what comic momentum it had in the first 50 minutes or so.
Stripes December 8, 2008
I guess comedy, not unlike beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder. Keogh's lackluster review of this movie could may well fall into this category. This was a much loved movie in it's day, and remains a classic in my eyes. Having seen it multiple times over the years since it's original release I can honestly say that I still lol and continue to discover comedic subtleties (sp?)I didn't notice before. I still say "lighten up, Francis" (taken from Warren Oates' character from this movie)when confronted with a person getting bent out of shape for some reason. Of course no one gets the connection but me, but I don't care. Bottom line, if you haven't seen it watch it at least 3 times. If you're over 55 I don't have to tell you. . . . it's a great flick!
my private review mach 5 November 3, 2008
I can relate to this movie STRIPES because i was in basic training in feb of 1981. the film was made 2 months before i got there my platoon sgt and staff sgt were extras in the movie. its a great movie
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