Advantages: Well written, good fun, great comedic acting Disadvantages: Story isn't all that original, aside from a twist or two
...of my favorite films - Private Benjamin.
I've loved Goldie Hawn since I first saw her many years ago in her Oscar winning performance (for best female actor in a supporting role) in Cactus Flower. Certainly we all should have gathered by then that her career would either be a flash in the pan or a long and successful sun-like blaze. Thank goodness its been the latter!
In this film, Goldie plays the part of Judy Benjamin a spoiled "JAP" (Jewish ... ...her dreams - Yale Goodman (played by Albert Brook - best known for his sweating anchorman part in Broadcast News). The wedding is a huge success and everything seems to be going perfectly for the new bride when… while preparing to leave for their honeymoon, her husband dies during "the act" on the bathroom floor. One of the best lines in the film comes straight at the beginning when a relative of the dead groom insists on hearing what his last words ...
TheChocolateLady 03.10.2002 (17.03.2005)
· Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Private Benjamin (DVD)
Advantages: Enjoyable, entertaining, holds a message, Hawn is fantastic Disadvantages: Aren't any.
...enlightening as she imagined…
Private Benjamin was the film that made Goldie Hawn a star. Even though Shampoo made her known and after Cactus Flower won her an Oscar she was brought to people’s awareness, this is the film that brought her to movie producers’ awareness, and after this the offers came rolling in for her. She certainly does show her true talents in the film. She got an Oscar nomination for her performance in the film ... ...their comedic acting. I watched Private Benjamin for the first time about five years ago, and have watched it several times since. What I notice in it is that Hawn always manages to make you laugh with it. Even in the non-funniest, darkest parts. She has a talent for making even the grumpiest of people laugh, and I think that’s one of the greatest talents of all. Some class Private Benjamin as a boring uneventful comedy. That’s not the ...
Mattroberts 09.05.2004
· Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Private Benjamin (DVD)
Advantages: A bit of humour? Disadvantages: a bit of humour?
Director: Howard Zieff.
Producers: Harvey Miller, Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer and Goldie Hawn.
Writer: Nancy Meyers
Stars: Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan and Armand Assante
Released in 1980 this hour and 50minute movie take you into the world of the American Army recruitment process… in a comical way…and turned out to be one of the biggest hits in 1980... (leading to a television series in 1981 -1983)
**BRIEF PLOT**
Judy Benjamin, (played by Goldie ... ...is the happiest woman in the world on her wedding day…until her husband dies on the first night of married bliss….
In a sort of haze she happens to enlist in the Army, believing it to be a life of luxury, but is soon regretting it when she realises that she has to actually work for a living… and work hard at that…
As she begins to enjoy her new found career, gaining promotion and finding romance with Henri Trement, (played by Armand Assante), a ...
blissman70 02.09.2008
· Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Private Benjamin (DVD)
Advantages: Good army comedy Disadvantages: Not sure
...I love the parts where Private Benjamin gets her own back on Capt Lewis and how she uses Col Thornbush to get the posting she wants is excellent. There are many funny parts to this film but mainly you get to see the army through the eyes of Private Benjamin and follow her on her journey of self-discovery.
This DVD is rated 15 because there is scenes of a sexual nature and there is also some swearing. I enjoyed this film and it is a very easy funny ...
kgray71 06.03.2006
· Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Private Benjamin (DVD)
Did you enjoy it?
Story
Characters / Performances
Special Effects
How does it compare to ...
Quick review of Private Benjamin (DVD)
I love Goldie Hawn. She is a legend and this is by far the best film that she has starred in.
An absolute must have for any DVD collection.
It is funny throughout, there isn't a point in the film that you will skip, you will want to watch everything.
Once you have watched it you will understand this quote "Private Benyamin" ...
lchw 23.03.2009
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Private Benjamin (DVD)
Private Benjamin's immovable object is pampered Judy Benjamin, a wedding night widow. The ... more
irresistible force is a three-year, expense-paid hitch in the U.S. Army. What's Judy doing in combat boots and fatigues? A recruiter seductively describes today's...
Production Year: 2004 - Comedy - Director: John Hay - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jimi Mistry, Kate Miles, Dougray Scott
Comedy - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Tessa Peake-Jones, Buster Merryfield, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst
Comedy - Director: Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Carol Cleveland, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones
Comedy - Director: Richard Boden, Mandie Fletcher, Martin Shardlow - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Hugh Laurie, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, Brian Blessed, Tim McInnerny, Tony Robinson, Rowan Atkinson
|
