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Plot Summary
Michael Keaton stars as a wheeler-dealer who hopes to save a failing Pennsylvania automobile-assembly factory from having to close its doors. Keaton persuades a Japanese auto firm to reopen the factory, retrain its staff, and streamline the operation. It isn't long before the American-born workers grow to resent the disciplinary demands of their new Japanese bosses, setting the stage for a comic clash of cultures. The day is saved when it turns out that the poker-faced owner of the auto company possesses a really strange sense of humor. Gung Ho was later spun off into a short-lived TV sitcom, starring Scott Bakula of Quantum Leap fame.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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35%- Reviews Counted: 20
- Fresh: 7
- Rotten: 13
- Average Rating: 5.3/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: It's more cheerful than funny, and so insistently ungrudging about Americans and Japanese alike that its satire cuts like a wet sponge.
Rotten: Its tone swings violently from pratfall to preachment, from an indictment of featherbed laziness to an extended beer-commercial celebration of the mythical American worker.
Rotten: A disappointment, a movie in which the Japanese are mostly used for the mechanical requirements of the plot, and the Americans are constructed from durable but boring stereotypes.
Rotten: The hero, though funny, is ultimately unsympathetic, securing through his cosy pacts nobody's position but his own, while the upbeat ending justifies strike-breaking. With comrades like this, who needs class enemies?
Customer Reviews
A great Michael Keaton Flick
Taking the nature of the plot into account, and the intent to make it a somewhat lighthearted movie, I thought it was really well done. Keaton and Watanabe did great jobs portraying attitudes at that time where American gusto collided with Japanese discipline in order to revitalise an industry. It was another look at industry becoming truly global and how America needed to learn some industry lessons, and vice versca for the Japanese. This is actually one of my favorite comedies (and my favorite Keaton movie by far) where cultures and attitudes clash with hilarious (and sometimes offensive) results!
Keaton’s hilarious.
It’s about time you got this movie iTunes.
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