Dad's Army (2016)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 100m
Director: Oliver Parker
Cast: Toby Jones, Bill Nighy, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Gambon, Tom Courtenay, Bill Paterson
Synopsis:
1944, and the platoon at Walmington-on-Sea faces its hour of trial, with HQ breathing down its neck and wanting to make cuts, and a German spy newly arrived in their midst. Will they apprehend or abet this Mata Hari as she spills the beans on the phoney invasion in the Pas de Calais?
Review:
After St. Trinian's, Parker stewards another updating of a cherished British institution, and one with far more riding on it. Having found a cast who pass muster as stand-ins for their distinguished forbears, the makers then consign the viewer to an ill-fated comparison of relative merit, while an unschooled younger audience would not really mind who was called up. The problem remains that he half-hour format is as unsuited to feature film treatment as it was back in 1971, and there are precious few laughs to be had from the knockabout on display, which were better at home in an am-dram revival of a contemporary farce. One or two more 'modern' shafts of innuendo afford a chuckle.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 100m
Director: Oliver Parker
Cast: Toby Jones, Bill Nighy, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Gambon, Tom Courtenay, Bill Paterson
Synopsis:
1944, and the platoon at Walmington-on-Sea faces its hour of trial, with HQ breathing down its neck and wanting to make cuts, and a German spy newly arrived in their midst. Will they apprehend or abet this Mata Hari as she spills the beans on the phoney invasion in the Pas de Calais?
Review:
After St. Trinian's, Parker stewards another updating of a cherished British institution, and one with far more riding on it. Having found a cast who pass muster as stand-ins for their distinguished forbears, the makers then consign the viewer to an ill-fated comparison of relative merit, while an unschooled younger audience would not really mind who was called up. The problem remains that he half-hour format is as unsuited to feature film treatment as it was back in 1971, and there are precious few laughs to be had from the knockabout on display, which were better at home in an am-dram revival of a contemporary farce. One or two more 'modern' shafts of innuendo afford a chuckle.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 100m
Director: Oliver Parker
Cast: Toby Jones, Bill Nighy, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Gambon, Tom Courtenay, Bill Paterson
Synopsis:
1944, and the platoon at Walmington-on-Sea faces its hour of trial, with HQ breathing down its neck and wanting to make cuts, and a German spy newly arrived in their midst. Will they apprehend or abet this Mata Hari as she spills the beans on the phoney invasion in the Pas de Calais?
Review:
After St. Trinian's, Parker stewards another updating of a cherished British institution, and one with far more riding on it. Having found a cast who pass muster as stand-ins for their distinguished forbears, the makers then consign the viewer to an ill-fated comparison of relative merit, while an unschooled younger audience would not really mind who was called up. The problem remains that he half-hour format is as unsuited to feature film treatment as it was back in 1971, and there are precious few laughs to be had from the knockabout on display, which were better at home in an am-dram revival of a contemporary farce. One or two more 'modern' shafts of innuendo afford a chuckle.