An average movie

Danny DeVito is, in my opinion, a really underrated actor, I always find him really funny but he doesn't get very often the lead so I was rather eager to check this flick. Unfortunately, I thought the whole thing was rather disappointing. Indeed, it is yet another comedy-drama about a teacher who reluctantly has to take care of a class of underachievers, in this case, soldiers. Of course, at first, he hates the job and his pupils cannot stand him and seem pretty stupid but slowly, there is a bond between them and surprise! The teacher turns out ot be great and the soldies turned out to be some kind of genuises... I think this formula is just so old, so predictable and just plain boring. I mean, I have seen worst movies and DeVito remains pretty charismatic but it is not a surprise this flick was a flop at the box-office. On a side note, it features Mark Wahlberg in his acting debut, he did a decent job but it was a rather small part. I don't really like 'Dead Poet Society' but this is basically a cheap version of this classic. To conclude, I don't really like and it is not really worth a look, even if you like the genre.

5/10