Renaissance Man

RENAISSANCE MAN (12)

D: Penny Marshall

Touchstone/Parkway/Cinergi (Sara Colleton, Elliott Abbott & Robert Greenhut)

US 1994

129 mins

Comedy

W: Jim Burnstein

DP: Adam Greenberg

Ed: George Bowers & Battle Davis

Mus: Hans Zimmer

Danny DeVito (Bill Rago), Gregory Hines (Sgt. Cass), James Remar (Capt. Tom Murdoch), Cliff Robertson (Col. James), Stacey Dash (Pvt. Miranda Myers), Lillo Brancato, Jr. (Pvt. Donnie Benitez), Mark Wahlberg (Pvt. Tommy Lee Haywood)

An unemployed ad-man is drafted into the army to teach poetry to the dimmest recruits and give them some self-esteem.

This heavily sentimental mix of Dead Poets Society (qv) and a recruiting poster is reasonably entertaining for the most part and certainly has its heart in the right place, but is also very predictable, a little dull and especially light on moments of actual comedy.

5/10