Dad's Army (2016)

An average movie

“To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Catherine Zeta-Jones, I thought I might as well check it out. Apparently, it was based on a popular old British TV-show which I have never seen but, unfortunately, this remake turned out to be terribly tedious, I’m afraid. First of all, to make a comedy around WWII is not impossible but it is really difficult and, in this case, it was a rather cringe-inducing attempt. Indeed, through the whole duration, I couldn’t help thinking about all the horrors taking place in the rest of Europa while this group of pathetic and either idiotic or senile old guys were basically 'playing' soldiers. Eventually, the only one in this group who was slightly less annoying than the rest was the character pl” read more

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"As a Dad's Army fan, I realised this was never going to measure up to the original TV series. In fact I thought it was going to be terrible but watched it just to see how it would fare. It was better than I expected despite the wafer thin plot. Toby Jones does well as Captain Mainwaring as do some of the other cast members apart from Tom Courtenay who never manages to capture the spirit of Cpl Jones in the same vein as Clive Dunn did. The old charms of the sitcom were lacking I guess, not really"