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sabotai · 03-24-2020, 01:00 PM

Here Comes the Navy (1934)

Directed By: Lloyd Bacon
Written By: Earl Baldwin, Ben Markson
Starring: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Gloria Stuart
Length: 87 min.
Genre: Comedy

James Cagney joins the navy! ... in order to get a second fight with some dude who took his gal.

So we open up with Chesty O'Conner (James Cagney) getting into a verbal pissing contest with a navy officer who is walking by the construction site where Chesty is working. Later that night, that officer, Biff Martin (Pat O'Brien) runs into Cagney's date for a ball and is smitten right away. So Martin and Chesty fight it out. Chesty becomes distracted and Martin lays him out with a punch.

Chesty needs to even the score, and the only to do that is to JOIN THE NAVY! So he does. Lucky for him, after training, he gets assigned to Martin's ship. Chesty also ends up dating Martin's sister, and the main source of conflict from that point is Martin getting in the way of their relationship, and Chesty's desire to run away from the Navy because he hates it.

The movie was fine. The pacing was really good. The two main conflicts for the main character is something a lot of movies don't get right. An external conflict (Chesty vs. Martin) and an internal conflict (Chesty hates being in the navy), both of which threatens his relationship with Martin's sister really keeps the pace up. When a movies just focuses on an external conflict, the pacing usually drags because you can only go so far for so long on one source of conflict. And without internal conflict, characters just come off as one-dimensional cardboard cutouts, no matter how many external conflicts the screenwriter puts in for his characters.

But overall, not funny, and all of the characters were annoying. Very watchable, though, for most of it, but the 3rd act just completely fell apart for me, and the ending was just awful. My biggest laugh was not with the film, but at the film during the ending.

If you're really into US History, one reason to watch the movie would be to see the USS Arizona and USS Macon. The film had much of it shot on the USS Arizona (sunk at Pearl Harbor) and the USS Macon (an airship that crashed off the coast of California in 1935) was featured in the film's climax.

My Rating: 4/10
IMDB User Rating: 6.3/10 (748 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes: 80% Critics (4-1), 44% of Audience (279 votes)

03-24-2020, 01:00 PM	#313
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	Here Comes the Navy (1934) Directed By: Lloyd Bacon Written By: Earl Baldwin, Ben Markson Starring: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Gloria Stuart Length: 87 min. Genre: Comedy James Cagney joins the navy! ... in order to get a second fight with some dude who took his gal. So we open up with Chesty O'Conner (James Cagney) getting into a verbal pissing contest with a navy officer who is walking by the construction site where Chesty is working. Later that night, that officer, Biff Martin (Pat O'Brien) runs into Cagney's date for a ball and is smitten right away. So Martin and Chesty fight it out. Chesty becomes distracted and Martin lays him out with a punch. Chesty needs to even the score, and the only to do that is to JOIN THE NAVY! So he does. Lucky for him, after training, he gets assigned to Martin's ship. Chesty also ends up dating Martin's sister, and the main source of conflict from that point is Martin getting in the way of their relationship, and Chesty's desire to run away from the Navy because he hates it. The movie was fine. The pacing was really good. The two main conflicts for the main character is something a lot of movies don't get right. An external conflict (Chesty vs. Martin) and an internal conflict (Chesty hates being in the navy), both of which threatens his relationship with Martin's sister really keeps the pace up. When a movies just focuses on an external conflict, the pacing usually drags because you can only go so far for so long on one source of conflict. And without internal conflict, characters just come off as one-dimensional cardboard cutouts, no matter how many external conflicts the screenwriter puts in for his characters. But overall, not funny, and all of the characters were annoying. Very watchable, though, for most of it, but the 3rd act just completely fell apart for me, and the ending was just awful. My biggest laugh was not with the film, but at the film during the ending. If you're really into US History, one reason to watch the movie would be to see the USS Arizona and USS Macon. The film had much of it shot on the USS Arizona (sunk at Pearl Harbor) and the USS Macon (an airship that crashed off the coast of California in 1935) was featured in the film's climax. My Rating: 4/10 IMDB User Rating: 6.3/10 (748 votes) Rotten Tomatoes: 80% Critics (4-1), 44% of Audience (279 votes)