Many movie posters for the film featured a preamble that read: ''Nick likes machine guns and dobermans. Bob likes squirt guns and pussy cats. Two real men with absolutely nothing in common... except the future of mankind.''
This came out the same month as another Jim Belushi movie, The Principal (1987).
Travis McKenna and James Le Gros both appeared in Patrick Swayze films. McKenna in Road House (1989) and Le Gros in Point Break (1991)