Good Morning Vietnam [M]

To play against the frightening uncertainty and bloodshed of the Vietnam War, the U.S military bring in a new deejay to host the morning radio show. The bloke they bring in is a hit straight away. He’s hysterical, irreverent, nonconformist and a real fast-talker. The G.Is love him, but the top brass is outraged. Here is Adrian Cronauer to blast the staid and sanitised airwaves out of the air with real news, side-splitting humour and all the hottest tunes from back home. 

A Robin Williams comedy classic, it would be blasphemous of me to never have watched this film. It’s packed to bursting with a healthy balance of bloodshed, comedy, drama, and love. An instant comedy classic. 

To play against the uncertainty and the bloodshed of the Vietnam War, the U.S military bring a new deejay to Saigon to host the morning radio show. But the heads of the operation are outraged when they discover that their new deejay is defiant, opinionated, sarcastic, irreverent, and nonconformist. Who cares though, the G.Is love him! Got a tiring, action-packed day ahead of you? Never fear because here is Adrian Cronauer to blast the formerly staid and sanitised airwaves out of the air with real news, side-splitting humour, and all the hottest tunes for back home. 

Robin Williams stars in this wartime comedy and it has to be one of the most amazing and hysterical performances that he has ever delivered. Everything that he says when doing the radio show is complete improvisation, making the humour all the more hilarious because it’s the freshest of the fresh. He just goes off on these tangents and no one (not even he) knows where he’ll end up. 

Backed with an emotional story to play against the occasional bloodshed and the comedy, Good Morning Vietnam was a wonderful comedy classic filled with great songs from the 60s including hits from the Beach Boys, Louis Armstrong, Martha and the Vandellas, James Brown, and Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders. 

Starring Forest Whitaker, Bruno Kirby, J.T Walsh, and Robert Wuhl, Good Morning Vietnam was a refreshingly original story filled with memorable quotes, hit songs, pub brawls, warfare, explosions, denial, and good comedy. Loved it.