The film succeeds only at suggesting the incompatibility of returning-home dramedy and surrealistic flights of fancy.
Mid-level Altman from the forgotten ’80s, a period that ought not to be forgotten entirely.
Altman imagines the army barracks as a hothouse environment where tensions and fears play out in oddly manic outburst.
The film is a could-have-been camp classic, the tragic victim of an inability to revel in its own sense of humor.
Though good for a few laughs, the one-note Teeth is just another trite rape-revenge fantasy.