![]() That doesn't faze Payne, who relies on the kid's lip-reading skills to get his harrowing threats across. ![]() ![]() The members of the junior ROTC corps are your usual mixed big, even more mixed: There must be a three-foot difference in height between the shortest and the tallest, and when Payne screams at one of them, "What's the matter, cadet? Are you deaf?" the answer, of course, is that he is deaf. Emily Walburn ( Karyn Parsons), who makes Payne get all mushy-mouthed when she sweet-talks him. The only person on the school faculty with a clue about real life is a cute teacher named Dr. In this case, according to the school's doddering headmaster (a bug collector played by William Hickey), the recruits are literally green: They wear green uniforms, he knows, but he's not sure exactly why. Payne is played in the movie by Damon Wayans, in the best work he's done since the inspired "In Living Color" TV series.Īlthough the plot of the movie is a familiar formula, the dialogue and performance are not it's a smart, funny job of poking fun at all those movies where sadistic drill instructors terrorized their green recruits.
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