Dad's Army (2016)

Sorry, this was absolute garbage. Some well known names might have been here but the thing stank worse than an African refugee camps dug out latrine when everyone is suffering with...well, you get the idea. I bought this as a present for my elderly parents, for whom the original TV programme has been a staple in their viewing habits since the late 1960s; it is nearly always playing somewhere. Suffice to say that having decided to view it myself first (it had been something we had watched together as a family when I was growing up, so I wondered at how it might have been updated for today's viewing public) I was able to stomach nearly thirty minutes of this sad production (ten minutes more than Borat, mind you) before deciding that it had stolen more than enough time from my life. It was taken back to where I had bought it with the lie attached that it turned out that my parents had already got it! Since then (just four days) I have been in three charity shops that had copies of this DVD for sale at prices between 79p and £1 - one shop had two of them with one showing a different charity shop price tag on it demonstrating that it had been bought, obviously watched and then re-donated (to a different charity shop, probably out of embarrassment) within the space of a week.I fail to see the attraction in making a new film of an old TV programme with new actors recreating old characters. It won't attract a new audience unless the old audience are enthused enough to implore them to view it, surely, and this old audience will just be turned off by the way the old, familiar, gentle characters are replaced with newer yet unrecognisable faces (some were vaguely similar to the original actors) suddenly 'sexed' up in a harsh and abrasive, more modern fashion. Bill Nighy can usually be relied upon to do a fantastic job, but here he appears to have just used that far away gaze all the time that made him appear to be dreaming of actually being somewhere else where he could actually act.Do yourself a favour, people: unless you are a student of film/television and want to see how not to honour an old TV favourite, please do not bother with this utter abortion of a film. Discerning charity shop movie buyers are not even bothering with it, and that is saying something.

Dad's Army is one of those adorable, "old guys still got it" movies that comes out every once in a while, sprinkled in among the "let's make fun of old people" movies that are never any good. Starring Bill Nighy, Toby Jones, Michael Gambon, Tom Courtenay, and Bill Paterson, a group of over-the-hill volunteers is in charge of protecting their town during WWII. No one really takes them seriously, and when Catherine Zeta-Jones shows up and starts charming everyone in the regiment, that doesn't make them any more credible.This is a very cute movie and has plenty of classic British gags, if you like that type of humor. If you usually groan and try to avoid British humor-and if you prefer your leading men to be under fifty-you probably won't like this one. I thought it was adorable, and I always find Bill Nighy dashing, no matter what age he is. Plus, when you least expect it, you get to watch a very exciting and suspenseful battle scene!

Worst. Film. Ever.Quite simply an abomination of the original film and TV series.Not a single laugh was had in the films 90+ minutes.Room full of extended family, settling down to watch a film together during the festive period ... and this is what we ended up with.We had more laughs ripping the film to pieces than the film itself provided.Why did the likes of Nighy, the Jones' and Gambon sign up to this? Did they not see the script?Some classics like this just should not be re-made.

Being a fan of the original television series I'd thought it would be a good idea watching the movie they made out of it. I have to admit the characters were very resembling the original characters. But for someone who never saw the series before, this movie might be a bit boring because you just can't relive the original characters in your imagination. But even to me, I am not sure they had to make a movie out of it. The series were way funnier. I think the early format of short episodes work way better then a long movie. All in all the movie is watchable, but certainly not as funny as I expected to be. Maybe in the future a movie based on the series Allo Allo? Making fun of the Germans is always funny.