one of my absolute favorites!

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Matthew Broderick enters military bootcamp for WW II. Will he survive or will he die laughing? Combine Matthew Broderick with director Mike Nichols and what do you get? A fun and feelgood war comedy. Broderick and Nichols are both known for their heartwarming comedian qualities. Movies with either one of them in it will give you characters on screen that are very loveable and funny. It is not slapstick though, the acting is serious, the issues are serious, but the characters are so endearing and humanly clumsy themselves that they provide the comic relief. This style is typical for the acclaimed director Mike Nichols who has won several oscars for best picture and directing during his magnificent carreer. Where Matthew Broderick is responble for the fun part of this movie, a drill sergeant played by Christopher Walken takes care of the heavy drill stuff. Walkens role is what gives "Biloxi Blues" it's balls. This drill sergeant's character is really to be feared, the man is on the edge of losing his mind. He oozes unpredictabillity. Combine that with the cute puppyface character of witty Matthew Broderick and you have got an ideal conflict for continueously funny jokes.Now this is suppose to be a movie about training soldiers, heavy stuff normally, but not so this time. It has got the feel of a holiday camp. There are only boyscoutish funny trainingscenes in America itself to be seen, no fighting whatsoever. There is even a lovely interlude of budding romance (swooping dancescene) with penelope ann miller in her younger years. It is a 12 years and older movie, very laidback and funny, with some romance mixed into it and along the way in a casual tone some serious issues like race, sexuality and peer pressure are being raised.

When I Am Asked If I Missed Out On The Newest Medina, Sandler, Ferrell, Etc Comedy ... I Remember Movies Like Biloxi Blues And Neil Simons Prequel Brighton Beach Memoirs ... I Realize I Am Not The One Missing Out ... Biloxi Blues Is One Of The Funniest Movies On The Theme Of Reaching Manhood ... Mathew Broderick Is Excellent As The Star Of The Story Eugene Morris Jerome A Budding Writer Who Has Yet To Learn About Writing ... Christopher Walken As With Any Role Is Brilliant As The Apparently Insane Drill Sargent ... This Movie Is A Laugh Riot From Beginning To End And Full Of Moments We Can All Relate To ... Biloxi Blues Like Brighton Beach Memoirs Is A Must See ... My IMDb Rating 9 Out Of 10

In one of the many looks at days gone by, Neil Simon's alter ego Eugene Morris Jerome (Matthew Broderick) and friends go down to Biloxi, Mississippi, in early 1945 for basic training. Once there, they have to cope with one bad-ass sergeant (Christopher Walken) and a status quo totally unlike the one in New York. But we also see how the experience turns Eugene into a very different person, partially due to his relationship with local babe Daisy (Penelope Ann Miller)."Biloxi Blues", in my opinion, is far from Mike Nichols's best movie. I find it having strength in showing these young men's coming of age and wondering what to do with their future. But still, it's fun to see the environs of the WWII-era South. And I really liked Eugene's fake name when he met that one woman; I couldn't have come up with anything like that! Worth seeing, along with "Brighton Beach Memoirs".When Matthew Broderick played Ferris Bueller, who ever would have guessed that he would later play the guy - or the alter ego thereof - who wrote "The Odd Couple"?

This is a fantastic movie that you will want to watch again and again. The story is perfect, the cast is perfect and the acting is perfect. A coming of age story that combines young recruits from all different sections of life that have come together and now have to learn how to live with one another as they go through the rigors of boot camp. Neil Simon always knows how to combine that perfect blend of realism, a comic touch and something you can identify with into everything he writes and makes you feel so comfortable in his story because you feel you're in the story. He makes you want to be become a writer. This is what makes Neil Simon unique. If only every movie could be written this well. This is what great Hollywood film-making is all about.