Volunteers
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Movie Reviews of Volunteers
Movie Review: Terribly funny
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie has it all... the upper-crust socialite, the super-patriotic and single-minded engineer, an idealist do-gooder, a Chinese warlord, a CIA agent, a foreign kid who's picked up American slang, Commie agents... the list goes on and on. This has always been one of my favorite movies and I like watching it every once in a while, whenever I feel like laughing at the Peace Corps. "We were never crazy about the bridge anyway."Movie Review: Volunteers
Summary: 5 Stars
The movie is a classic with many quotable lines, Tom Hanks' portrayal of an arrogant, shameless womanizing, gambling rich kid from the Northeast makes the movie as well as John Candy's over grown Boy Scout character, Tom Tuttle from TakomaMovie Review: Great Movie for the Cougs
Summary: 5 Stars
Any movie which contains the fight song of the greatest university on the face of the Earth, no doubt, is worth five stars if not more. Besides that, it is just a great movie. Go Cougs!!!!!Movie Review: I LOVE THIS MOVIE!
Summary: 5 Stars
It is great and feels like there are three movies in one, with all the different locals and story lines. Tom Hanks is the best!Movie Review: "Move This Log And I'll Sleep With Each One Of You".
Summary: 4 Stars
Back in 1984, Tom Hanks was on a roll. After making it big on the small screen in the popular comedy, Bosom Buddies, and making an even bigger "Splash" in the 1983 film directed by Ron Howard, Hanks started gaining prominance as an actor. His next film, 1984s Bachelor Party, brought his persona to a much different audience which did not stop the film from becoming a success. 1985s Volunteers, however, would be a different story. Although this film is about Ivy Leager, Lawrence Bourne III (Hanks) who joins the Peace Corp to get out of a gambling dept, it is not for a huge audience. However, there are a couple of important reasons to own it. 1. This was the 2nd and final teaming of Hanks with fellow "Splash" costar, John Candy, who's performance in this film as the goodnatured Tom Tuttle can be hard not to laugh at (the brainwashing scene is a killer).
2. Volunteers is the movie where Hanks met his wife, Rita Wilson, who costars with him as Beth Wexler. It's just a lot of fun to watch the chemestry between these two and also quite touching since they are still together today. One of my favorite scenes is when Beth is unsuccessfully trying to get the natives to move a log, so Lawrence tells her to repeat something he says in their language, and after she does, the natives scurry the log away. "What did I just say?", she asks him. He replies, "Move this log and I'll sleep with each one of you". A silly but intimate exchange between the two of them.
This DVD is not bad as far as price is concerned and it's even shown in the Widescreen Format (1.85:1), but you may not know that since the back of the case is a bit unclear (the only indication is "Aspect 16:9", which some people may not understand). Even the original theatrical trailer is here in Widescreen. Plus you even get some nice Cast & Crew Bios.
So if you really enjoy Tom Hanks and/or John Candy, check this film out.
"It's not that I can't help these people, it's just that...I don't want to".-Tom Hanks as Lawrence Bourne III