DVD : Down Periscope
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: GRAMMER,KELSEY
EAN: 0024543101055
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 03, 2004
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 1033
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: March 01, 1996
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Kelsey Grammer sails from TV's "Frasier" to the big screen in this screwball comedy co-starring Lauren Holly and Rip Torn. Veteran skipper John Dodge (Grammer) will never be a textbook officer, but he's a brilliant seaman who's always wanted to command a nuclear submarine. Unfortunately, Admiral Graham (Bruce Dern) would rather sink the fleet than give Dodge his own boat. So Dodge is given the helm of a diesel-powered WW2 sub crewed by a collection of maladjusted, mistake-prone misfits. Then he's tagged "the enemy" in a crucial war game, and ordered to take on the U.S. Navy's best. Batten down the hatches for unstoppable hilarity that takes 200 years of naval tradition¿and throws it all overboard!
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Kelsey Grammer stars as the captain of a rust-bucket submarine who is fighting for his career by proving his skills in a contest against far more sophisticated ships. Rob Schneider provides comic support as an uptight ensign, and Lauren Holly plays an officer who has to fight her own will-they-accept-me-because-I'm-a-woman anxieties. The film didn't do well at the box office, but it is actually pretty funny, Grammer is enjoyable, and the above-the-water/below-the-water action sequences are as good as any in most submarine films. --Tom Keogh
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Not everyone's cup of tea I'm sure, but this movie has a great cast and is solidly funny throughout. Kelsey Grammer is perfect in this role.
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I made the mistake of watching this on an airplane ride, (I must admit to a loud cackle of a laugh) and had to control my laughter. It's not academy award material, but it IS great entertainment!
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I really liked the way this comedy hit you in subtle ways without trying too hard, and without continuous sight gags.
Kelsey Grammer does an excellent job as the down-and-out Lt. Commander Thomas Dodge, of the low tech World War Two-era submarine USS Stingray; pitted against modern-day warships in a seemingly one-sided war game. Rob Schneider is the obnoxious and recalcitrant XO Martin Pascal. Lauren Holly is the untested, under pressure, Lt. Emily Lake. Rip Torn and Bruce Dern are the adversarial Admirals in the simulated war game.
The crew is composed of a rabble of quirky, spaced-out, ill-mannered, insubordinate and mentally challenged sailors. When the chips are down, they transform into a well-oiled war machine, under Grammer's somewhat "unconventional tutelage." The XO "Walking The Plank" scene, and the Cook "passing gas" during silent running are two of the funniest.
Living near San Francisco and being a WWII historian, I immediately recognized their submarine as the WWII U.S.S. Pampanito (SS-383) museum and memorial, docked at San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. Another plus for you history buffs.
Easy-going, relaxed, lighthearted comedy.
Rating: -
A great way to relax and have a good laugh. The Captain and his assorted mixed-bag of crew members come together during the ensuing mock trials of securing entrance into two 'guarded' Atlantic Naval Bases with an 'outdated rust-bucket' of a submarine. While a 'higher ranking' officer tries to prevent this happening, the Captain has been given directions to "think like a pirate" by a still higher ranked officer. Highly recommend this movie for a sit-down-popcorn evening with family or friends.
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I loved this movie, and find myself watching it over and over. It was very funny, far better than the so-called box-office hits. Down periscope is simple humor full of fun. Don't forget 9-11, showed us that the "That could never happen", can.
Lt Commander Dodge, and his very misfit crew, out manuver his former skipper, that gave him a review that would have ended his (Cdr. Dodge's)career. It has vilians in Bruce Dern, and in some ways Dodge's own XO, portrayed by Rob Schiender and heroes as Cmd. Dodge, superbly portrayed by Kelsey Grammer, and the misfit crew that out did the "convental Navy", quite easily.
I watched this movie, multiple times and enjoy it each time. I would highly recommend it to everyone. The critics wer wrong, big time.
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starring: Kelsey Grammer, Lauren Holly, Rob Schneider, Harry Dean Stanton, Bruce Dern
directed by: David S. Ward
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: GRAMMER,KELSEY
EAN: 0024543101055
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 03, 2004
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 1033
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: March 01, 1996
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