Best movie of this year hands down!

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

There isn't much to say about this. When Jim Nabors played Gomer Pyle in the Marine Corps, every plot was the same. He did something to upset the Sergeant. Here it is one thing after another with hayseed Andy Griffith causing great pain to another sergeant. No matter how bad it gets, he always lands on his feet. As a matter of fact he actually innovates, making things run smoother. He, of course, has no knowledge of how the military is supposed to work, so it's often just an accident. Griffith is really pretty funny and carries the whole show on his back. His long suffering sergeant does a pretty good slow burn as things fall apart.

I knew nothing about this movie until I happened to catch it one day on TV years ago. I couldn't believe how good it was, and how I've never heard anything about a movie of this caliber. I truly felt like I stumbled upon a hidden gem.The acting is superb, as many of the lead characters were accomplished Broadway actors. It's refreshing to actually see a movie that relies on a good script with actors capable of performing it at a high level, instead of the crappy movies of today that rely on CGI, explosions and breasts. Hollywood should probably take some notes from this movie.The star of the show is Andy Griffith, who plays Will Stockdale, a simple, naive, unsophisticated rube from the South that gets drafted into the military. He's absolutely brilliant in this role, and you really see just how talented he was as a lead comedic actor. The movie basically revolves around Pvt Stockdale, his new friend and bunk mate, Pvt Whitledge (who dreams of being an infantry soldier), and their barracks sergeant, Sgt King. Stockdale's goofiness and unsophistication continually cause havoc for those around him, especially for Sgt King, a lifer that does everything possible to keep things calm but always finds himself in compromising situations thanks to the antics of Stockdale. There is memorable scene after memorable scene, such as Stockdale being named the P.L.O. (Permanent Latrine Orderly), which he thinks is a promotion, and makes all the commodes salute during inspections. There's the night he out drank everybody at the Enlisted Club and walked away unscathed during a fight that gets everybody else in trouble. How he somehow turned the tables on the Doctor during his psychological exam. The airplane scene where everybody thought him and Whitledge were dead. I can go on and on. This movie is just flat-out hilarious from start to finish.Stockdale being such a likable character only helps this movie, as you genuinely find yourself rooting for him when he gets into trouble, and cheering for him as he always seems to muddle his way through them. The acting is tight, the pace is crisp and there is memorable scene after memorable scene in this riot of a movie. If you like comedies, this is a must see.

For those of you who know Andy Griffith best as the country wise sheriff of Mayberry or as the slick country lawyer Ben Matlock it might come as a surprise that Griffith got his first big career break playing that most ingenuous of military draftees Will Stockdale in No Time For Sergeants first on Broadway and then in this film version. Griffith is such a hick he makes Gomer Pyle look as sophisticated as Noel Coward.Stockdale is one of those people who glides through life while chaos erupts all around him. Because his father William Fawcett had kept his draft letters from him, when the Air Force finally does come to get him. The man whom the chaos effects the most is his sergeant at the classification center played by Myron McCormick in the best world weary tradition he can muster.Stockdale's best friend is Nick Adams, a kid from a military tradition family who wants the Army Infantry and not the Air Force and bemoans his fate through most of the film. He convinces Griffith of the fact that the infantry does the real fighting and everyone else just helps out occasionally. Like many other things Griffith takes them to heart and repeats them verbatim always at the wrong time. It's the heart of the humor in No Time For Sergeants.No Time For Sergeants ran for 796 performances on Broadway during the 1955-57 season and Griffith, McCormick, Don Knotts, and James Milhollin all repeat their roles from Broadway. This not the Andy Griffith Show is the first time Knotts and Griffith work together. Knotts plays a corporal at the classification center administering the manual dexterity test and how Griffith solves it is Gordian Knot like. But his session with psychiatrist James Millhollin is the funniest thing in the film. No Time For Sergeants is one of the best military comedies ever done on stage and screen. Do not miss it if broadcast.

The movie is based on a book of the same name. Both the movie and the book is set in Callville. The author, Mac Hyman, was born and died in Cordele, Georgia. It isn't hard to see that "Callville" is just a play on the name of the author's hometown of "Cordele." Hyman was studying at Duke University when he left to serve his country in World War II in the Army Air Corps. After the war, he completed his studies at Duke and returned to Cordele. That was when Hyman wrote the novel. It was adapted for television first and then for Broadway and then the movie. Andy Griffith played Will Stockdale in all 3 versions. It was Griffith's second movie after "A Face in the Crowd."