It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

After reading the comments for this movie, I thought it would be bad.But I was wrong, this movie is funny, really really funny. Cool casts and really nice and sharp jokes. There are not many comedies that have made me laugh, but this was one of those who pulled it off. The first 15 minutes or so were a little slow, but after that it gets a lot better. This movie wasn't some wannabé comedy, that want's to be funny, this movie was funny.I give this movie a 7, for what it is - a funny entertaining movie.Peace

to find out, watch this movie. This movie was better than I expected it to be. It was actually quite funny. Larry, Bill, and Everett are 3 guys that work just 1 weekend a month in the reserves. But suddenly, they get called to active duty and assigned to Iraq. On the way there, the airplane drops a truck in which they just happen to be sleeping in. So, when they wake up, they think they are in Iraq but are actually in Mexico. Then they must save a town from bandits.Some of the things they do are funny. DJ Qualls plays Everett and he has some of the best scenes. He's so skinny and in this he is supposed to be this great wrestler. He also wears a sniper outfit that looks ridiculous and one of the other guys calls him a retarded Chewbacca. Funny. There is also their Sgt. Kilgore who fell out of the plane too. He is forced to sing karaoke by the bandits. The ring leader is named Carlos Santana so of course that brings more jokes. The towns people give them tacos to eat and they just can't believe they have tacos in Iraq. There were many other scenes that made me laugh, but you get the idea.FINAL VERDICT: A lot better than you would think. It's funnier than a lot of movies I've seen lately. Check it out.

this movie i saw as a mistake. see, i was vacationing in Mexico, and there, we saw the Spanish title for this movie in the local theater without seeing the poster and thought we were gonna see tropic thunder. big mistake, i say. for starters, who the hell told the blue collar squad, specially that fatass named larry the cable guy, that they're cut for movies? it tries to give some chuckles by using hot but dumb blonde chicks and hick redneck jokes, with no results. then we have these idiots going to reserve training. granted, reserve forces are more relaxed than active duty, but these idiots treat it as a vacation. no doubt REAL reservists and guardsmen will not be amused. then there's the whole "i think were in iraq" crap. Jesus, they're your stereotypical patriot warmongering hicks who supposedly follow the war, how can they assume that iraq has, i don't know, MOUNTAINS?! and they see two Mexican peasants and because they have brown skin, they assume them to be iraqis! and anyone who has gone to a real rural Mexican town knows this movie is full of crap, cause Mexican towns don't look like this! it looks more like a set for a speedy gonzales cartoon. all in all, this movie fails for its gross humor lack of geographic skills and outdate racial humor. yeah, accuse me of taking this too seriously but ill tell you this, superbad, pineapple express, talladega nights, now those were funny. not surprisingly we walked out of this godawful pieces of cowcrap. in the end, it wasn't about being pro or anti war or loving or hating rednecks. it's about trying to have a good time at the movies and having it ruined. p.s. the reason i gave this 2 stars is that this in not AS bad as larry the cable guys other "crapsterpiece" health inspector.

I read a lot of user comments and ratings on IMDb and have for a long time. I have never before written one, but after reading some positive comments for this movie, I felt compelled to register just to comment on this movie. This movie is the downfall of Western Civilization. The plot by itself should make you want to die a slow death: soldiers think they are going to Iraq but end up in Mexico instead. Someone said that this somehow supports our troops? I'm sure our troops are sleeping better at night in Iraq because Larry the Cable Guy made a movie depicting US soldiers as too stupid to know the difference between Iraq and Mexico.This whole movie is offensive and there is no way around it. I'm not an easily offended person either. There is no way that anyone with a brain and a conscience could actually enjoy this movie. The official slogan is "War isn't funny..... but the movie is!". This movie, combined with the fact that there actually people who gave this movie a good rating, is the reason why everyone else hates America.