Dad’s Army (2016)
Storyline
A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.
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Cast
Toby Jones, Daniel Mays, Andrew Havill, Blake Harrison, Bill Nighy, Tom Courtenay, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stuart Adams, Michael Gambon, Martin Savage, Bill Paterson, Mark Tandy, Mark Gatiss, Neil Broome, Emily Atack, Felicity Montagu, Annette Crosbie, Holli Dempsey, Jacqueline Tong, Frank Williams, Sarah Lancashire, Alison Steadman, Ian Lavender, Oliver Tobias, Julia Foster, Russell Balogh, Michael Heath, Philip Gascoyne, Mark Warner, Ellen Capron, Pat Carney, Charlotte Nichol, Patricia Winker
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Reviews
50
The risk-averse approach to the remake extends to the humour. Pratfalls and benign double entendres (“I saw you slip her a sausage!”) rub shoulders with familiar gags and catchphrases which have been lifted wholesale from the original series.
50
Amiable to a fault, with gags both broad and gentle, Oliver Parker’s pic prompts sporadic chuckles rather than guffaws.
40
It’s hard to escape the sinking feeling that this is a waste of talent – and that this is a good-natured, well-meaning but pointless kind of Brit-comedy ancestor worship, paying elaborate homage to a TV show that got it right the first time.
40
Dad’s Army is hobbled by too much broad slapstick and labored clowning.
40
The top-notch cast keep calm and carry on, but this TV remake is a waste of everyone’s time.
