Rotten
Its tone swings violently from pratfall to preachment, from an indictment of featherbed laziness to an extended beer-commercial celebration of the mythical American worker.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Gung Ho
When East meets West, the laughs shift into high gear!
1986 · 1h 51m · PG-13
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Ron Howard
Overview
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
33%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Drawn from real life, the conflict between cultures is good for both a laugh and a sober thought along the way.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
The hero, though funny, is ultimately unsympathetic, securing through his cosy pacts nobody's position but his own, while the upbeat ending justifies strike-breaking. With comrades like this, who needs class enemies?
Derek Adams, Time Out
Rotten
It's more cheerful than funny, and so insistently ungrudging about Americans and Japanese alike that its satire cuts like a wet sponge.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten
A disappointment, a movie in which the Japanese are mostly used for the mechanical requirements of the plot, and the Americans are constructed from durable but boring stereotypes.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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