diogomanuel Everyone who loves to watch movies and great performances by the main actors should watch this one. This movie isn't a comedy by any means but it has humour in spades to make one enjoy it and face the reality of what happened in Vietnam. It is amazing how humour does ease the pain and formidable hurdles one has to overcome in life (and especially in war)This is surely one of the best Robin Williams' movies and probably one of the best showcases of his personal life: bringing joy and laughter to those around him, not showing that he had to face his (inner) demons like everyone else around him... His talent is obvious in this one, and I miss him...A 10 out of 10 movie that everyone should watch.

Amy Edwards About 3 years ago, a true comic gem decided to leave us far earlier than we expected. He made us laughing so much we never imagine that behind that love for life, there was a much darker hidden side which ultimately took him from us. That man was Robin Williams.One of the characters he'll be always remembered for is without a doubt the radio host he incarnated in Good Morning Vietnam. This role was made for him as he could show his tremendous comic and acting talent. The fact that the scenes when he's hosting his radio show are all improvised is speaking volumes of the huge sense of imagination and comedy Robin has displayed throughout his career. But he can also show that he could be a very dramatic actor as well. The scene when he comes back to the radio station after witnessing the bar bombing is truly heartbreaking especially when you see him all alone completely down while the rest of the world keeps going on and the machines are getting frenzy.But it would be unfair to not cheer the rest of the cast who is supporting Robin so greatly especially Forrest Whittaker as Private Garlick, Tung Than Tran as Tuan, Bruno Kirby as Lt Hauk and J.T. Walsh as Sgt Major Dickerson.The latter is particularly distasteful as this very rigid Sergeant who is managing the radio station in Saigon. He's the true antagonist of the movie as he sees Adrian Cronauer as an uncontrollable burden and he's trying to get rid of him with any means necessary including sending Adrian on an assignment in an area controlled by the Viet-Cong.The late Bruno Kirby is bringing a second source of comic relief as this goofy lieutenant who is acting as Adrian direct supervisor boasting about his own comic genius which is in fact truly dreadful. There are some very memorable scenes he's a part of which are truly funny though.What I also like in this movie is they are not showing the Vietnamese people as the bad guys. They are displayed as a poor and rejected people with a true sense of friendship and humor willing to share the beauties of their culture to the Americans. The last scene when they are sharing a baseball game with Adrian before he goes back to Washington is truly moving.All of this is making this movie a gem and Robin Williams is bringing it among the stars. God bless your soul Robin.

valadas Yes, a good man in the middle of a dirty war of which we don't see much anyway. A soldier of USA air force who is also a disc jockey is brought from Crete to Vietnam to amuse American troops through the Armed Force Radio in Saigon in 1965. He starts a half crazy humorous program that quickly wins the applause and pleasure of the GIs but at same time shocks and displeases his superiors that think he is not acting according to true military values and begin opposing themselves to him for the way he kids and jests with certain values and persons of the official politics. The situation becomes worse when he becomes friendly acquainted with some natives till he feels himself even sentimentally attached to a Vietnamese girl. Besides the humorous scenes there is also some slight drama everything well directed and excellently acted by Robin Williams as the main character.

bigverybadtom This movie is based on the true story of an US Air Force man transferred from Crete to Vietnam in 1965 to be the new DJ of the US Army radio station, and when he goes on the air for the first time, he refuses to follow the dull format of the previous DJ or play the dull music that had been played. In the movie, the new DJ is in fact encouraged by his fellow enlisted soldiers to play contemporary pop music from Motown and The Beach Boys and engage in rapid-fire comedy patter. Various military people all laugh at the new DJ's verbal antics, but as might be expected, the military higher-ups are not pleased with the new DJ's irreverent program.A good potential idea, but poorly utilized. Robin Williams' routine was reportedly ad-libbed, but his comedy routine failed to be funny. The soldiers are all shown laughing, but one gets the idea that they do so because that is what they were hired to do. Rapid-fire comedy and silly verbal antics can be hilarious, but Williams was simply dull and boring, as if he wasn't sure exactly what he was supposed to do. I didn't bother to finish the film; what I saw of it shouted that it was going to be standard and clichéd, and what good is it to watch a comedian who is not funny?I wonder what the real-life DJ was like. He certainly must have been funnier.