Bill Murray, who worked under Ivan Reitman in Meatballs, is an aimless layabout whose Sad Sack life prompts him to consider the army as a last-ditch passport to the career, romances, travels and other delights painted in those glossy federal commercials. – Variety

“An anarchic slob movie, a celebration of all that is irreverent, reckless, foolhardy, undisciplined, and occasionally scatological. It’s a lot of fun.” Rogert Ebert