To me, this movie is perfection.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

In the spring of 1944 a group of guardsmen protect the town of "Walington on the Sea." They take on aspects of the "Keystone Cops" as they fumble through their drills, lead by George (Toby Jones) "a man with vision" when he is wearing his glasses. When the refined Rose Wilson (Catherine Zeta-Jones) shows up as a journalist doing a story, the men fall all over themselves as the woman folk of the town work to protect their claim. Rose is a spy for the Germans, something two elderly women figure out early in the film.I liked the film because it reminded me of my own father who served in WWII, not in the front lines, but guarding the coast of North Carolina...but that didn't deter him from telling "war" stories. Today his tall tales would brand him as a liar and a disgrace to everyone who served, etc. But I still loved them. Bill Nighy did his type cast job as a former Oxford professor.The film had its humorous moments as the women come to the rescue.No swearing sex, or nudity.

The modern take on Dads Army had a lot to live up to and failed. The problem is this, we have all grown up with the original characters which are ingrained in the national psyche. We all love the original Pike, Wilson, Jones and Mannering who the later delivered his lines with brilliant comic timing. I gave up after 30mins as I got bored me thinks it was with the Rose Winters character play by Catherine zeta- Jones, nice on the eye but irritating in this.

Oh wow.Where to start?Awful plot, so bad and cringeworthy that it is not worthy of the term plot. There are the lame jokes which we expect, the prat falls which we also expect. What is missing is any sense of narrative.this is ninety minutes of my life I cannot get back..Don't bother.

It's always hard to watch a remake without comparing it to the original... This film stands better with its peers if you can resist the urge to make the comparison with its original ...I read some reviews making direct comparisons which to me in truth isn't fair as to do so in anyway you really need to go back to the very first series... As its in these episodes you see the same criticisms made of this one ... The original series developed into what we all know and it wasn't till the coloured episodes that we saw the same story lines from the B&W episodes being tweaked to suit the actors and their characters... It was the writing for the individuals that went to make the dads army we know and love... So to me it's unfair to compare those rewritten and established characters and story lines to this film...If you are going to do so it should be compared to those original B&W episodes where you can see some of the same criticisms made of this film in those episodes... Of course even by doing so you can get caught up in the trap of making like for like comparisons and to me this film isn't or wasn't made to be such... To me it plays more like an homage to a wonderful show and gentle quirky characters...This film to me stands out from other recent releases as a gentle and quirky film... Something that doesn't try to be anything more than it is ... It isn't a remake ... It's an homage ... And no matter how much you loved the original Dads Army .. This film doesn't set out to be that but rather to me a gentle reminder of the emotions those shows brought to us..It's worth the effort to watch and enjoy it for what it is... An homage to a great TV show and wonderful characters and a reminder of a time past and never to be repeated... The slight variations didn't detract from my overall enjoyment of this film... It was never meant to be a laugh out loud film... just a simple film to enjoy and pass a few hours being reminded of a time past...