In The Army Now (1994)

In The Army Now (1994)

Release Date: 12 August 1994 (USA)
Quality: DVDRip
Language: English
Runtime: 91 min
Director: Daniel Petrie Jr.
Company: Hollywood Pictures
Movie Info: IMDb
Cast: Pauly Shore, Andy Dick, Lori Petty, David Alan Grier, Esai Morales, Lynn Whitfield
Genre: Comedy | War
Size: 660MB

Plot: The film begins as two slackers, Bones Conway (Pauly Shore) and Jack Kaufman (Andy Dick) work at "Crazy Boys" discount electronics store in Glendale, California. While they goof off on the job, both have aspirations of opening their own electronics store in the future. Both are fired though, after destroying a rack of televisions sets.

Looking to score some quick start-up money for their store, and believing that the commitment would be minimal, the two join the United States Army Reserves. Bones choses water purification for their field since his brother was an experienced pool man and the field appeared to be devoid of combat. After surviving basic training, they attend water purification training. The two meet up with Christine Jones (Lori Petty) a female recruit longing for infantry, and Fred Ostroff (David Alan Grier), a skittish dental student. The foursome adopts the nickname of "waterboys." The group then returns to Glendale.

What Bones and Jack did not realize, however, was that Libya was planning an invasion of Chad, and they would consequently be called up for service overseas. They first tried to get a military discharge by pretending to be homosexuals, but they failed.

Upon arriving in Chad, the four did not get along well with the full-time soldiers, particularly Special forces Sergeant Stern (Esai Morales). On a routine mission to resupply a forward base, their convoy was ambushed by a Libyan commando squad. The misfit reserves were thought to have been killed in action (KIA) and were left to fend for themselves. After a few days lost in the desert, they were captured by the Libyan forces and spent a night in a Libyan POW camp. While they were captured, the reservists met up with Sergeant Stern who was shot and captured in an ambush. He briefed them on his failed mission to rendezvous with two HALOed Fast Attack vehicles and destroy mobile Scud launchers carrying missiles armed with chemical warheads aimed at American bases in the region.

During an airstrike, the four reserves and Stern escaped and found the Fast Attack vehicles. They made contact with the American headquarters and were ordered to finish the Special Force's mission. After locating the missiles, they had a difficult time holding off a battalion of Libyans while painting the missiles with a laser for an incoming airstrike. The airstrike went off-target, forcing the reservists to destroy the missiles themselves. Bones grabbed an AT4 anti-tank rocket launcher and destroyed the Scud launcher base in one hit, but not before accidentally firing one rocket backwards, being forced to use the last RPG they had.

The "waterboys" return home as heroes. At the end of the film, they open up their electronics shop next to an Army recruiting station.

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