Major Payne (1995)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

Nick Castle

Writers (WGA):

Joe Connelly (story) &
Bob Mosher (story) ...

Release Date:

24 March 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

He's looking for a few good men... or a few guys old enough to shave.

Plot:

Major Benson Winifred Payne is being discharged from the Marines. Payne is a killin' machine, but the...

Plot Keywords:

Cult Comedy | Critically Bashed | Cult Favorite | Kukri Dagger | Army Life

Cast

Damon Wayans	...	Maj. Benson Payne
Ross Bickell	...	Col. Braggart
Scott 'Bam Bam' Bigelow	...	Huge Biker
Joseph Blaire	...	Cadet Bryan (as Joda Blare-Hershman)
Orlando Brown	...	Cadet Kevin 'Tiger' Dunne
Peyton Chesson-Fohl	...	Cadet Sgt. Johnson
Stephen Coleman	...	Cadet Leland
Mark Conway	...	Police Sergeant
David DeHart	...	Wellington Cadet Captain
Joshua Todd Diveley	...	New Cadet
Robert Faraoni Jr.	...	Smart Ass Soldier
Michael Gabel	...	Lt. Wiseman
Albert Hall	...	Gen. Decker
William Hickey	...	Dr. Phillips
Michael Ironside	...	Lt. Col. Stone

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some crude humor and behavior.

Runtime:

Argentina:95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Vietnamese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS

Certification:

Australia:M (TV rating) | Iceland:L | Argentina:Atp | UK:12 (video premiere) | USA:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

Ashland, Virginia, USA

Company:

Universal Pictures

Trivia:

Loose remake of The Private War of Major Benson (1955).

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Payne is dreaming about his fantasy life with Tiger and his mom, the soldier who attacks them has a very visible rubber gun.

Quotes:

Cadet Alex Stone: It's slippery!
Major Payne: Slippery he say. You think Charlie cares anything about slippery? The only thing he know is to slip your throat. What if this were a life or death situation?
Cadet Alex Stone: But it's not a life or death situation.
Major Payne: [Pulls out grenade and pulls the pin] It is now.
Cadet Alex Stone: Oh come on, it's just a dummy grenade.
[Major Payne tosses the grenade into some trees. It explodes and Alex Stone dives into the mud]
Major Payne: Who's the dummy now?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Your Studio and You (1995)

Soundtrack:

Bad to the Bone

Major Payne, nothing but a funny movie.

Here's a movie that I watch all the time.

Major Payne is just a funny movie.

It's a true classic.

The jokes are just so well done that you want to watch this movie over and over again.

The acting was okay, but is made up for when the way the movie is meant to be funny.

The music is very good with a great mix of all kinds of music.

I just have fun watching Major Payne.

Overall if you want a classic movie that is very funny, then Major Payne is the movie for you.

I give Major Payne 10 out of 10.

A true Classic.