Monday, July 23, 2012

The Sad Sack (1957)

Paramount Pictures
Directed by George Marshall
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
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A service comedy based on the comic strip, with Jerry Lewis as a private who doesn't quite fit in with the rest of the guys. He's smart, memorizing technical manuals with ease, but also naive, he gets a hot girl but has no idea what to do with her. The plot follows him from his inept days in boot camp, where he only passes the marksmanship test with lots of help, to north Africa, where he gets involved with spies who steal a rocket. Passable fare for fans of Lewis, everyone else will probably hate it, but that's the case with most of his flicks!

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