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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786302676723 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 630267672X Label: Walt Disney Video Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Walt Disney Video Release Date: January 14, 2003 Running Time: 96 minutes Sales Rank: 4848 Studio: Walt Disney Video Theatrical Release Date: 1991
Amazon.com: This 1991 comedy by Gabriele Salvatores was knocked for not being deep enough, but it is what it is, and it's actually an easygoing, sunny movie about eight Italian soldiers who manage to strand themselves on a tiny Greek island paradise during World War II. The sort of mutts who would shoot a donkey for not knowing the proper password, these clumsy warriors become a comic variation on the Lotus Eaters of myth, their fighting spirit evaporated in the midst of so much beauty and sexual availability among the local women. There are also sundry opportunities for the men to find another purpose for their lives (one particularly artistic fellow works on the restoration of a church, for example). Amid the sometimes coarse jokes and gratuitous nudity, there are subtle themes about the contrast between what men are truly like in their natural state versus what they are like as killers. (The Thin Red Line this isn't, but Salvatores does, in his own way, touch on some of the same themes.) Watch this one on a cold winter's day and vicariously enjoy the tans as well as the antiwar sentiment. --Tom Keogh
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Rating: - One of the best recent Italian films
This wonderful Italian film shot during the 1990's, tells the story of a group of misfit Italian soldiers from various parts of Italy sent to occupy a Greek Island during World War II of zero strategic importance.
Through a series of mishaps, they lose a soldier's beloved pet donkey, and their essential two-way radio, effectively cutting them off and leaving them forgotten during the war.
Left stranded on the seemingly deserted isle, they discover they are not alone once the inhabitants realize the Italian soldiers are harmless, unlike the brutal German occupiers who ... Read More
Rating: - Time Out from War
"Mediterraneo" is a FUN movie. It's a very likeable story of a group of Italian marines who follow an assignment to occupy an obscure Greek Aegean island during the early period of WWII. Due to a series of escapades, they lose their contact with the outside world. Instead, they get caught up in their own little world for the next three years. That may sound like a boring movie but things happen from time to time and the excerpts we see are generally pretty funny. The different personalities emerge and their variety allows the writer and the actors plenty of room for development. In the end, ... Read More
Rating: - Where is the DVD?!?!?!?
Where the heck is the DVD for this grand movie?? What the heck are the morons at Miramax and Disney doing???? RELEASE THE DVD IN THE USA!!!!! Che Piccato!!!!
Rating: - Joy
This is an excelent movie, which has not lost any of its appeal since the release. Charming, romantic and philosophical with beautiful scenery. It flows like a sailing boat on a nice day. If you'd like to escape from this world (even for only 1.5 hours) just like the movie characters did - you got to watch it. This is one of those movies I have to have.
Rating: - A movie worth watching!
Definitely a GREAT movie, Mediterraneo, brings to the screen the story of a small Italian military force consisting of eight men that invades Greece during WWII and takes over one of the islands. Subsequently, the Italians are forced to interact with the local Greek populace with everything that that entails. When the Germans arrive, things get a bit more complicated...
Mediterraneo, is a film that touches on human relations, and such concepts as hope, honor and inner strength.
Needless to say, all the actors have truly outdone themselves with their performances, which are outstanding ... Read More
