Whether the collaboration of three screen writers gave this sometimes delightful, sometimes interminable motion picture an identity crisis, is anyone's guess.

| Jul 12, 2022

"Private Benjamin" seems coarse, sluggish and interminable as a comedy scenario, but the profoundly depressing aspect of it is that Goldie Hawn appears to be receding as a comedienne and emerging as a boss lady.

| May 8, 2017

This is arguably although unfortunately Goldie Hawn's most memorable role.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 8, 2017

[Hawn's] not so gifted that she can carry a heavy load of indifferent material on her own two little shoulders, without considerable sagging.

| Mar 26, 2009

Another depressing example of the big-screen gag-string sitcom, it turns exclusively on a plot that grew from a concept that developed from an idea that somebody should never have had - Goldie Hawn joins the army.

| Feb 9, 2006

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Mr. Zieff demonstrates great skill in keeping the gags aloft and in finding new ways by which to free the laughs trapped inside old routines about latrine duty, war games, forced marches and calisthenics.

| Aug 30, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 26, 2003