Going Under

1991

Comedy

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 86%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 86% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 3.5/10 10 864 864

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Plot summary

An American submarine races to get a nuclear weapon before a Russian submarine.

Director

Mark W. Travis Photo
Mark W. Travis

Top cast

Bill Pullman Photo
Bill Pullman as Biff Banner
Roddy McDowall Photo
Roddy McDowall as Secretary Neighbor
Dean Cain Photo
Dean Cain as Guy in Bar
Wendy Schaal Photo
Wendy Schaal as Jan Michaels
720p.WEB
739.14 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 20 min
Seeds 45

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by IonicBreezeMachine 3 / 10

A leaden comedy that runs through a tired rehash of the Police Academy formula by transplanting it to a submarine

Unscrupulous Admiral Malice (Ned Beatty) is pressured by defense secretary Neighbor to move up the stealth submarine project the Sub Standard despite it not being read leading malice and military contractor Wedgewood to arranged for the sub to be tested with an ill equipped crew captained by a disgraced submarine captain who has fears of water and tight spaces.Going Under is a 1991 submarine movie spoof made in the same vein as Warner Bros. Police academy movies down to the fact co-writer Randolph Davis would go on to write Police Academy: Mission to Moscow and Michael Winslow makes a brief supporting performance as an unnamed reporter character. Originally filmed under the title Dive!, the movie supposedly did have a few test engagements in theaters before Warner Bros. Ultimately decided to release the movie directly to video with the film largely having fallen into obscurity since. There's really not all that much to say other than like many of the Police Academy follow-ons Going Under feels very tired and without much punch to the material.In the opening where we're introduced to some very broad satire about the military industrial complex that somehow gets into a military meeting staged like an episode of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, the movie does get the odd chuckle here and there particularly from Bill Pullman's introduction as Biff Banner whose backstory of disgrace of beaching his submarine is mildly amusing, but as talented an actor as Pullman is even he can't support leaden material. The movie runs into an issue of making its central submarine funny and despite the Sub Standard having a ramshackle nature it doesn't offer all that much for comedic possibilities with the extended cast largely more confusing than legitimately funny and this is despite having funny people like Wendy Schaal of The 'Burbs and American Dad or Chris Demetral of Dream On making up the core cast. The Sub Standard when you compare it to what was done with The Big Bus or the planes in Airplane! Just feels lacking in solidly placed gags and instead just relies on a lot of mugging and noise to make up for the shoddy script.Going Under goes under with very few laughs to justify itself even at an anemic premise of 80 minutes. I would say that Going Under is the last gasp of that particularly wave of that style of comedies, but Police Academy: Mission to Moscow would come out a mere 3 years later.
Reviewed by jippy33 3 / 10

Pullman saves this one from being a disaster

This must be the most stupid film I've seen for a looong time. It disappoints me that this bulls**t stars Bill Pullman, a great and respected actor but on the other hand: he saves this movie from total flop. Three out of ten because it's a parody without any movie to make fun of, and with the jokes never being funny...then we only have Pullman left, leaving behind a good performance in a s****y production. I've seen worse though, just go see Battlefield Earth, and you'll know what I mean.
Reviewed by japa 1 / 10

What a c***!!

This must be one of the worst movies I have ever seen. It didn't make me laugh at all and you know when comedy doesn't do that to you there's something wrong in the film. There are not many other comedies that are this bad, perhaps Police academy:Mission in Moscow and Caddyshack are as terrible as this. Well, there are few funny scenes in Caddyshack. But this... What can i say. There are no sense in the jokes, plot is... beyond anything. Acting makes you cry or laugh, it depends. I watched this when I had hangover, because I hoped that this would be good hangover-film... but it made me feel worse. I'm glad I didn't throw up! Bill Pullman is sometimes good, but he doesn't save this one. Oh no, what more can I say? Do I have to say more? I don't think so. Just don't ever watch this, you may regret it. I surely did.
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