ManiakJiggy
This is How Movies Should Be Made
Ezmae Chang
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Kamila Bell
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Darin
One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
stxyn922
F Troop was one of the best of the stupid high-concept sitcoms of the time when I was growing up and seriously in need of Cathode-Ray parenting. Like Goldilocks, Gilligan's Island was too stupid, and The Munsters and Bewitched weren't stupid enough, but F Troop was just right (as was the Addams Family, Get Smart and oh yes, Green Acres.) No way could it be made into a movie today! Forget about it! We were too stupid to realize how offensive the racism on the show was, and that was fine. The same stuff wouldn't be funny today. Yes, I remember Larry Storch as his identical cousin Lucky Pierre: "They say I'm the Burglar of Banff-ff-ff!" Agarn:"The Burglar of Banff-ff-ff?" Pierre: "The Burglar of Banff-ff-ff!" Pure Vaudeville. I had forgotten about Paul Lynde's Singing Mountie until reading these reviews just now. This was the height of Lyndes's popularity, I think. (He was playing Samantha Steven's unforgettable warlock Uncle Arnold on Bewitched about the same time. He just didn't have the right star vehicle when the studios finally gave him his own sitcom.)The reason one reviewer remembered "It Is Balloon!" so well was cause it was so damn funny! Throughout the episode, Agarn and O'Rourke kept describing to Wild Eagle and Crazy Cat hot air balloons, and they kept on refusing to believe any of it. Then in the last five minutes, it comes from out of the sky and... you had to be there.For some reason, I'll never forget the episodes where Henry Gibson played the living jinx "Wrongo Starr." (Great stupid anachronisms abounded!) and Parmenter was always trying to give him affirmations, "You're not Wrongo Starr! You're Lucky Starr!" and Wrongo always managed to set off sequences of events that would have all the stunt actors in Hollywood busy for the week, always ending with the cannon misfiring and hitting the watchtower with somebody flying out of it.You had to be a kid to love this show!
Parker Bena
*WARNING! THIS COMMENT MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!* F-Troop has to rank right up there with McHALE'S NAVY and M*A*S*H* as one of the all-time great military comedies. Ken Berry was great as Captain Wilton Parmenter, Fort Courage's bumbling idiot of a commander, though his intentions were good. Whenever Parmenter would get into a sticky situation with visiting brass, it was always Sgt. O'Rourke and Cpl. Agarn (Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch) who saved the day and made their Captain look good. Tucker and Storch were a great comedy team. James Hampton (who would go on to play Burt Reynolds' sidekick in THE LONGEST YARD and Michael J. Fox's father in TEEN WOLF) was hilarious as Trooper Hannibal Dobbs, the company Bugler who couldn't play a note. The addition of Dobbs to F Troop is a somewhat curious one because since Dobbs was a Southerner and the Civil War had just ended, Hannibal Dobbs would have, in reality, been ineligible for service in the United States Army. Ineligible or not, Dobbs was still hilarious and I even liked his back and forth banter with Agarn ("I'm Warning you, Dobbs!") If I were Captain Parmenter, I would have finished, "Jane. How many times have I told you? Not in front of the men." with "Why don't we go into my bedroom?" (Note: during the Second Season, Melody Patterson was, in fact, of legal age.) I also liked the entrepreneurial Hekawis, Wild Eagle and Crazy Cat. They weren't your typical Indians. They were opportunistic Capitalists with good heads for business - almost as good heads as O'Rourke and Agarn. My favorite episode has got to be "Our Brave in F Troop". The one where Chief Wild Eagle has a toothache and he has to visit the Army Dentist. Unfortunately, there are a number of delays in getting the Chief's tooth pulled. Most of them were courtesy of General Sam Courage (after whom Fort Courage is named), who keeps promoting him through the ranks. He ends up with the rank of Major before his "disappearance" is conveniently arranged by O'Rourke and Agarn with a little assistance from the befuddled General Courage.
verbusen
"It Is Balloon!" I actually have that line embedded in my head from watching F Troop as a kid. I'm surprised that only one season was in color. New York (no idea what channel but this was before cable for me so about 5 total), would run this show after school along with Gilligan's Island, so certain scenes for me are memorized, well really just one, when the chief says "It Is Balloon!". I have no idea why that one is memorized unless thats what the channel ran as commercial clip. Anyway, I just bought a 6 episode sampler from WB and it was nice to see the show again being a part of my childhood. Just to add some balance to these reviews, this is NOT the best comedy to ever come out of America, it's not even close. There was a reason why it was cancelled, its pretty stupid. The scenes with Ken Barry usually fall flat. Larry Storch and the "Indians" are what made F Troop funny. Anyway, this show is a cross between Gilligans Island and Sgt Bilco set in the Old West. It's stupid like Gilligans Island with a constant scheming plot like Sgt Bilko. There you have it, I'm sure viewers were on to this as well and decided they had had enough of the same joke, just like Sgt Bilco and Gilligan didn't last much longer. One great episode on this sampler DVD has Don Rickles as an Indian, and that episode with his scenes are really funny, he kind of takes the crazy scenes away from Larry Storch. Its formula comedy, pretty good, but fag from the BEST. 7/10 for nostalgia reasons, Get Smart blows this show away as an example of a show that was out at the same time. Hey Larry, I still love you man!
moondreamer2
I wish that Warner Brothers would come to their senses and see that there are many of us who would buy the complete series of F-Troop once on DVD...I hope they realize that there IS a market for the show to this day! The company of Warner Brothers should respect the will of all us true admirers of this show which (to myself and many others) has got to be one of the best written comedies of all time...It definitely is up there with shows such as "I Love Lucy" and "The Honeymooners"...As I recall all the times as a young boy that I would sit and watch the hilarious antics of the members of F-troop and the Heckowee tribe, (excuse me if I misspelled the name), I start to laugh deep inside once again...I really do , Sincerely hope that Warner Brothers release this series before we all get to old and start dying off - Please Release The F-Troop Series On DVD As Soon As Possible - Thank You!
