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Major Payne

Major Payne

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Funny Movie!!!
Review: THIS IS ONE OF THE FUNNIEST MOVIE I HAVE SEEN. IT IS FUNNY WHEN THE KIDS TRY TO GET RID OF PAYNE, AND IT BACK FIRES. A MUST SEE!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: the best
Review: This is probable one of the best movies ever produced. Its not appropriate for little kids but 13 and up it is a must see

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Funniest movie I have seen
Review: This movie is simply excellent. Damon Wayans achieves to transform a serious subject into a comedy which never offends the USMC. He plays so well that he deserves them.

The soundtrack is so good. Sounds are quite exagerated and thus become funny. For instance, during the Universal opening title when the (r) registred mark symbol appears, you hear a DING ! When Major Payne meets the Madison school headmaster, you can hear all these insects and butterflies (the headmaster loves entomology) flying and buzzing around and over the shaved head of Major Payne. This scene is purely hilarious, one of my favorite moment. I was laughing so much I thought I shall died. Maybe another victim of Major Payne (fortunately not the final one).

The music by Craig Safan is particularly successful and sustains any funny actions, the Aretha Franklin's musics too. It seems obvious Craig Safan enjoyed to create a real musical background that depicts a "cartoon" atmosphere. Sometimes very serious, and few seconds later so funny.

The story is not only comedy but extraordinary rich thanks to the work of Damon Wayans and the cast. One best moment is when Major Payne offers a bullet from his heart to his new "girlfriend" or when Major Payne understands that Cadet Alex Stone wants to push him outside Madison school (Do you want to see me gone?). Only Damon Wayans can play like that (heartily).

The texts are outstanding (even for a french viewer). The american vocabulary is so rich and the art of using it (and expanding it) is so irresistible. I laugh from the first to the last second of Major Payne.

The french translation is also a success even if the task was enormous because there is so much american idioms. Nevertheless, the french dub is really funny. I do prefer the original voice of Damon Wayans because he talks so perfectly as a USMC drill instructor. This man is not an actor, he is a human VTR! He can spend two weeks with Marines and then speaks like them. The french voice is very good but the dub actor was unfortunately unable to complete such performance.

The scene with the hidden man into the closet and how Major Payne definitely "kills" the Tiger's nightmare is a masterpiece.

Nick Castle did one of my favourite movie, forever and I just wanted to thank him and all the cast for giving us such good time.

Vive the USMC, Vive Major Payne, Vive Damon Wayans.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Heeh heeh heeh! HA heeh heeh heeh! HO heeh heeh heeh!.......
Review: This movie made me laugh so hard I almost went to the Marines. This movie is so funny, I laughed my head off at the part when he tried to get the kid to go to sleep by getting rid of the monster in his closet. This movie makes me wish I had a P.E. teacher just like that. BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! "There! If he's still in there, he ain't happy!"

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hilarious!!!
Review: When I first saw this on TV, I nearly split my sides laughing and knew I had to get this film! Damon is the funniest military man I have ever seen! You will most likely be hurting from laughing so hard throughout the entire movie. The most funny parts would have to be when the biker dude confronts Major Payne, the peeing-in-the-pants episode concerning the black kid(I gotta go bad! Hod it!), the watering of the cadet's heads and Major Payne telling the black kid his bedtime story (Blood 'n guts everywhere) The acting is surprisingly good for such a ridiculous movie. Definently the best comedy of 1995 and one of the best comedies ever! Check it out. NOW!!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A laugh-riot!
Review: When Major Benson Payne (played by Damon Wayans), a one-man-army in a Marine uniform, is discharged, he needs to find a new life. Given command of the Madison Academy Junior ROTC, he sets out to whip the gang of misfit youths into shape. Used to the toughest discipline and the hardest life, Payne is the children's worst nightmare, and there is nothing they won't do to get rid of him. Along the way, though, Payne and his command all learn a few lessons.

This movie is a laugh-riot! Wayans' Payne is hilarious, being just the right mixture of homicidal maniac and tender father figure, while the ROTC cadets make a perfect foil for the Major. My family have never laughed so hard at a movie as we did at this one, with my son being quite pleased with how the Major deals with a "monster" in a young lad's closet - "If he's still in there, he's not happy!"

This is a great movie, the one caveat being that there are quite a few colorful words tossed around by the Major and the cadets. That said, though, this was a hilarious movie that you and your family will like watching again and again!


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