Interesteg What makes it different from others?

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Dunham16 The start was one of the first early television specials. It was then produced as a successful Broadway play after which it was recycled as a hit movie comedy.Its second try following the Hollywood movie as a television situation comedy hit paydirt as The Andy Griffith show. It has more famous people in front of and behind the set than most and as well more movie buffs yearning to know why so many of media fame made a point of being personally committed to it and why it was so successful in so many media formats. Its still available DVD print has flat, dull visuals, slow, boring audio and a general feeling of being so dated those not hoping to continuously academically research it might be better off ignoring it.

DKosty123 What is amazing about this movie is that it was done on live television before it was done on film here. The live broadcast was very good, but this film is even better. Even though Andy proved he was great on live TV and on stage doing this as a play, this film goes beyond.For some reason, the casting department got this film perfect. A large and very good supporting cast seems to go perfectly with Andy. Even Don Knotts gets into this along with a lot of folks that would work in famous TV shows later on.The writing is sharp, and the script never lets you miss a laugh. There is no doubt this is Andy's best. He would also do a much more serious film called "A Face In The Crowd" and prove he could also do drama too. I prefer this film, but Andy is just great doing the drama and I suggest that anyone who really wants to know Andy well should watch both films.

Hitchcoc 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.

SanteeFats This is an extremely humorous movie but it isn't even close to reality. Andy Griffith is very good as the hick from the sticks (Will Stockdale). He barely reads, thinks rather slow, strong as an ox even though he isn't built like it, (it is almost a fantasy movie after all), and always seems to look on the bright side of any situation. He passes the tests in his own way. Twisting metal rings together, reading the eye chart as words not letters, out shrinking the shrink, etc. Murray Hamilton plays Irving, a recruit like all the others except put in charge because of some ROTC time. Irving rides the hick until he crosses the line and insults his dad. Stockdale then beats up on four out of five while Nick Adams jumps on the fifth. You see many up and coming actors and some good character actors too. Nick Adams, Jamie Farr, Will Hutchins, Dub Taylor, and the first appearance of Barney Fife, Don Knotts. Some how Will even passes gunnery school although he is at the bottom. After getting sent to an obsolete air base they end up getting involved in a nuke test, jumping out of the plane with Adams using one chute, assumed dead, they show up ten days later just as they are getting posthumous Air Medals. Since generals don't like getting shown up or getting made fun of two of them finagle a transfer to the Army infantry and it all gets swept under the proverbial rug.