The greatest movie ever made..!

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

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!

Growing up with Dad's Army, and having recently re-watched the 1960's Dad's Army movie, I could only surmise that this new movie was made to pander to the actors in it? They probably had a lot of fun dressing up and pretending to be part of what is now almost a sacred British comedy institution called Dad's Army.Unfortunately the script gives them little chance to be nothing more like a weak shadow of the original show. It removes the complexity of character relationships helping or hindering each other to produce the laughs.Unlike this movie, Dad's Army was never just about Captain Mannerring. Sergeant Wilson and Corporal Jones completed the comedic triangle with Jones waffling on, and being told he was "going into the realms of fantasy", or Wilson asking Captain Mannering if the action he was about to take "would be wise?" On top of this CPL Jones would always ask for "Permission to speak sir?", or "Permission to whisper sir", "They don't like it up 'em" and "Don't Panic!"The other supporting characters were let down just as badly, with the Verger disappearing completely. Not once did Fraser comment on the German spy's thighs, and Hodges only appeared a few times, never told anyone to "Put that light out" and was uncharacteristically seen as being brave.Throughout the original series we never once saw Captain Mannering's wife - a kind of running joke, with him deferring to her on the phone. Unfortunately the script writers decided to change this, along with querying Jones' previous service and fighting ability. In the original series Jones was drawn as a brave old soldier. Old aged had dulled his ability, but his spirit was still strong. This not only provided for more comedic moments, but also paid homage to the many real life "old soldiers".As you can see, if the scriptwriters had done their homework, they had more than enough material to make quite a funny movie. Instead, they made a rather weak shadow.

I am not a die hard fan of the original series but when I have watched episodes over the years they have always raised a chuckle. But when I heard about the film version and saw the cast involved my interest was peaked, only to be dampened again by the poor reception from critics.With this in mind I held off watching Dad's Army until today when I attended a showing at the local town hall. Upon my arrival I realised I was the second youngest person in the room but it was good to see the venue full and from what I witnessed not one member of the audience was disappointed... Not one!As the film progressed and we were introduced to new versions of old favourites it was good to hear myself laughing along with the audience and that laughter came at regular intervals throughout the entire feature.The actors gave fantastic representations of the characters and the humour was kept at a level suited to the time period.The story was simple but pleasant and flowed along at a steady pace, carefully delivering visual and vocal gags a plenty.I enjoyed every minute of this one and I would happily sit down and watch it again and again... A great job by all involved.