Movie Reviews for Biloxi Blues

Biloxi Blues

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Movie Reviews of Biloxi Blues

Movie Review: Part 2 of 3
Summary: 4 Stars

Neil Simon's second in a trilogy of autobiographical plays/movies (BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS was the first), this is set in an Army boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi, during WW II. The typical cast of barracks boys is presented: a crazy sergeant, a bigoted tough guy, a highly principled Jew, etc. They joke around, fight, visit a whorehouse, etc. The vignette-like scenes are stagey and for the most part sentimental and nostalgic, but many of them work okay. Matthew Broderick plays the main character and does an excellent job. Warm humor seen through the filter of time is striven for here rather than the comic punch Simon got elsewhere. Worth a peek.

Movie Review: ...It's like Africa hot
Summary: 4 Stars

I am thrilled to see this DVD is finally going to be made available. In college I my theater troupe pulled off "Biloxi Blues,"

I went to see Christopher Walken perform in a broadway production of "James Joyce the dead" a few years ago, and low and behold, bumped into Matthew Broderick and his wife. Not only were the two of them in the film production of Biloxi Blues together, but had performed the play together on Broadway as well.

This was about 5 years ago, and I was thrilled to see the two of them were still friends. Great movie, fantastic play.

Movie Review: Nostalgic Movie.
Summary: 4 Stars

This moves seems to be a very nostalgic piece for Neil Simon. It's about the characters, not so much the environment they find themselves in. It offers good character study, and by the end, someone's almost saying in a whisper "Ahhh, the good old days." Though, at the time, they didn't seem so grand.

Movie Review: Christopher Walken at his best
Summary: 4 Stars

Although not the intended star of this movie, Christopher Walken gives what I think is his best performance in this film. He plays a disturbed drill sergeant. Well worth viewing.