Retired Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale spends his days puttering around the Caribbean in the old PT-73 selling homebrew, ice cream, and swimsuit calendars. He's brought out of retirement when his old nemesis turned the second best terrorist in the world, Major Vladikov, takes over the island of San Moreno and starts building a nuclear launch silo on it. With help from his old crew and hindrances from Captain Wallace B. Binghampton, who sank a cruise liner a while back, McHale tries to put Vladikov out of business.
Practical Effects
The actual PT-73 boat deserves better than this script
Acting
Dean Stockwell commits harder than anyone asked
Costume
Tom Arnold's Hawaiian shirt collection is extensive
Director
Bryan Spicer
Tom Arnold
Lt. Cmdr. Quinton McHale
Dean Stockwell
Capt. Wallace B. Binghampton
Debra Messing
Lt. Penelope Carpenter
David Alan Grier
Ensign Charles Parker
Bruce Campbell
Virgil
French Stewart
Happy
Tim Curry
Maj. Vladikov
Ernest Borgnine
Admiral Quinton McHale Sr.
Danton Stone
Gruber
Brian Haley
Christy
Henry Cho
Willie
Tommy Chong
Armando/Ernesto
Erick Avari
European Leader (uncredited)
James Hong
Asian Leader (uncredited)
Luisa Huertas
Nurse
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Tom Arnold's desperate attempt to launch a franchise after his divorce from Roseanne tanked his career momentum.
The 1997 film bombed so hard it killed any chance of a McHale's Navy cinematic universe—imagine the multiverse we lost.
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