I was probably a senior in high school, some 30-plus years ago, when I saw this, and cannot remember more than a few scenes. I recall laughing harder than I ever had at a movie before and wished that I could have seen it again.
As others have described it since, I suppose some of the situations might have been far-fetched or unlikely, but they surely were funny. The title character was able to outwit the VA bureaucratic workers, from professionals like doctors and administrators through the ranks down to the orderlies who unsympathetically tried to get him in line. The tag line was very much true: Julius seemed to get away with anything and made it lots of fun for the audience, too. I felt very sympathetic toward him and was cheering him on the whole way.
It would be a pleasure to see the film marketed as a DVD, as I believe audiences nowadays might find it much more entertaining than those theater audiences who were much more uptight about the military on the heels of the end of the Vietnam War. I wonder if there is any way to convince the owners to try to produce it on DVD. Since "Good Morning, Vietnam!" we have learned how to take some of that era tongue -in-cheek, at least.
As others have described it since, I suppose some of the situations might have been far-fetched or unlikely, but they surely were funny. The title character was able to outwit the VA bureaucratic workers, from professionals like doctors and administrators through the ranks down to the orderlies who unsympathetically tried to get him in line. The tag line was very much true: Julius seemed to get away with anything and made it lots of fun for the audience, too. I felt very sympathetic toward him and was cheering him on the whole way.
It would be a pleasure to see the film marketed as a DVD, as I believe audiences nowadays might find it much more entertaining than those theater audiences who were much more uptight about the military on the heels of the end of the Vietnam War. I wonder if there is any way to convince the owners to try to produce it on DVD. Since "Good Morning, Vietnam!" we have learned how to take some of that era tongue -in-cheek, at least.