1995 · adventure · comedy · family
Major Payne
Directed by Nick Castle1h 35m1995
Major Benson Winifred Payne is being discharged from the Marines. Payne is a killin' machine, but the wars of the world are no longer fought on the battlefield. A career Marine, he has no idea what to do as a civilian, so his commander finds him a job - commanding officer of a local school's JROTC program, a bunch of ragtag losers with no hope.
Our read: Major Payne (1995) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive adventure · comedy · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle adventure / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
Watching Major Payne tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
?
Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
More info & search links
How Major Payne feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want drill-sergeant chaos turned into surprisingly sweet kid comedy.”
Skip it tonight — You can't laugh at harsh boot-camp humiliation played for family-friendly gags.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like Major Payne, with why →
Discussion
Make it a movie night.
Pick a mood, get a film the whole couch will enjoy, and give everyone something to watch for.
Pick tonight's film →