Editing Down Periscope (section)

==Reception== 
On the [[review aggregator]] website ''[[Rotten Tomatoes]]'', the film has a score of 11% from 35 reviews, with an average rating 4.1/10. The site's consensus states: "''Down Periscope'' takes audiences on an aimless voyage for aquatic hijinks, proving there really aren't any effective substitutes for a well-written script."<ref>{{rotten-tomatoes|down_periscope}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film receive a score of 39 based on 18 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/down-periscope|title=Down Periscope|website=Metacritic}}</ref>

''Variety'' wrote, "The makers of ''Police Academy'' and ''Major League'' team up to take on the submarine corps [...] and the result is a testosterone comedy that’s crude fun, with a pinch of corn-pone morality. It’s good-natured, innocuous frivolity that should raise a few smiles..." However, [[Stephen Holden]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' felt, "The tone of the acting, which is set by Mr. Grammer's blandly laid-back performance, is all wrong for a genre that demands over-the-top hamming". Holden also wrote that the film does manage to provide "a couple of amusing bits", but "The energy level of ''Down Periscope'' is so low that moments like these, which should flare hilariously, reach a wan flicker".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=980DE5DF1E39F932A35750C0A960958260 | title=Down Periscope | work=[[The New York Times]] | access-date=October 13, 2017}}</ref>