Military Intelligence And You!
Year: 2008
Director: Dale Kutzera
Stars: Patrick Muldoon, Elizabeth Bennett, John Rixey Moore
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Running Time: 78 Minutes
Review Rating: 3.5 Stars
Official Website: http://www.militaryintelligenceandyou.com/

Military Intelligence and You! is a spoof that the army is embarrassed to show you. This film is a spoof of training films that were made in World War II. It also contains footage The film is about military analyst Major Nick Reed (Patrick Muldoon (Melrose Place, Starship Troopers) who is a very dedicated solider who is called in during a crises during World War II to find a hidden Nazi base fighter base that is taking out all the American air supports. Things get little complicated for him, when he has a chance encounter with his former love (Elizabeth Bennet (Point Pleasant)) that also works for the military as lieutenant along with her current love interest. Does Major Reed find the hidden base, stop the Nazi’s and reconnect with his former love. Well you have to watch this movie to find out. John Rixey Moore, Mackenzie Astin (The Last Days of Disco, The Evening Star) and Eric Jungmann also costar.

Military Intelligence and You! is a very solid spoof of army intelligence. Writer/Director Dale Kutzera made this spoof entertaining by focusing on the spoof of old training films than trying to clutter every thing that has happened in other movies of this type that make fun of celebrities, who are in the news often for the stupid and annoying things they do, like the film that I will never see, Meet the Spartans or Epic Movie, for example. I liked, how he films this like a regular recruitment film from the World War II era with the grainy picture and the high-pitched narration. That helped the film achieve, what it was set out to do. Another thing that I liked about this was the inclusion of old vintage military film which sell the film’s time period and story. Kutzera’s direction of the actors was good, even though some of the scenes were overacted, but that gets a pass, as those scenes were purposely part of the spoof.

Kutzera’s screenplay was good for the most part, as this was one of the better spoofs that I’ve seen in a while even though that isn’t saying very much. He succeeds with this spoof by focusing on the different aspects of the military through the various characters in the film. Kutzera also spoofs at classic love stories of that time with one of the subplots in the film where the two main characters haven’t meet in a while which was also good. The humor in this film was good because Kutzera doesn’t go for the over the top gross out humor that has plagued many of these films instead focuses on good solid humor.

Military Intelligence and You! is a very funny at look at the army that we all love and know.

DVD Extras:

US Army Air Force’s first motion pictures unit documentary