Shaking up the Saigon airwaves as DJ Adrian Cronauer, Robin Williams shows how easy it is to hang a contrived story on one virtuoso performance. His motormouth monologues are desperately funny, but some hackneyed insights into war leave the movie looking like M*A*S*H's sickly kid brother. Hopefully, you'll be too busy enjoying the rapid-fire gags and the '60s soundtrack to care too much.
DVD Extras:
Raw Monologues, production diary, trailers. Raw Monologues is a 12-minute session of Williams assaulting the mike (stripped of narrative nonsense, you wonder whether it's actually a better cut of the film). The production diary also introduces the real Adrian Cronauer. Predictably, he's not as funny as Williams.
