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www.washingtonpost.com - : Pauly Shore in fatigues? It may sound funny, but in Hollywood Pictures' ''In the Army Now,'' the tousled dude from Glendale is rarely allowed to be all that he can be. Enlisting for this formulaic potboiler about impromptu combat duty in the Sahara, Shore is too caught up in military maneuvers to -- you know -- be funny. more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : We were about halfway into ''In the Army Now'' when I realized the movie's secret ambition, which was to be nice. It's a movie about a misfit who finds himself in the Army - the kind of setup that lends itself to the barbed satire of the Bill Murray movie ''Stripes.'' I was waiting for the barbs and they weren't coming and to my amazement I realized the movie wanted basically to be an innocent, childlike adventure. more...
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