Sorry, this movie sucks

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I watched this movie because of my personal interest in de Havilland Mosquito airplane. When this movie was made I guess there were enough operational Mosquitos to form a squadron for this movie. I've never seen this plane in color and up so close.The movie holds together surprisingly well for a war time movie. The highlight of the movie is when the Mosquitoes appear on the screen. I'm glad that they made this movie that catches this plane in all its colorful glory. Until I saw this movie I didn't know that the Mosquito had a bomb bay.If you're a war time movie or a de Haviland Mosquito fan, this movie is worth keeping in your collection.

Mosquito pilots must destroy a big house where the Germans are meant to be developing the v3 rocket ( wonder what that would have looked like ) and considering how effective the v1 and v2 rockets are the v3 must not reach production so the squadron use bouncing bombs to destroy the house. Sounds quite imaginative if not a tad bit stupid but it comes off as a big pile of junk with unconvincing dog fights and action with the exception of the last part of the film. There are Ed Wood style goofs like a planes shadow on the backdrop and planes wobbling in the air as they fly but it does have a good feel to it just try not to take it to seriously watch Dam Busters or 633 Squadron instead.

At a time when many a star-studded and big-budgeted WWII actioner emerged, this modest effort seemed definitely like second-tier material – offering customary but efficient thrills and decent spectacle, somewhat in the vein of 633 SQUADRON (1964)…with which it shares much of the plot and action footage! In this respect, the film also owes its German secret weapon to OPERATION CROSSBOW (1965) and its bouncing bombs to THE DAM BUSTERS (1955); no wonder, then, that the end result feels awfully contrived (particularly at the climax, when successive to a couple of failed attempts, it has a wounded pilot wilfully crash smack into the warehouse where the rockets are manufactured!). Besides, the narrative tends too often towards romantic/sentimental complications: the relationship between the two leads being obstructed, for one thing, by the hero having been the best friend of the woman’s husband and, later, by the knowledge he shares with her maimed brother that the man had survived an air crash but is being kept prisoner in a château marked for obliteration during an Allied air raid led by the hero himself! The credentials are strictly below-par (the score, typically an asset in this type of flick, attempts to be rousing but succeeds only in being bland) and the casting a mix of TV actors (THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.’s David McCallum – who delivers a brooding performance – and Suzanne Neve from U.F.O.) and colorful character performers (Charles Gray as the pompous yet stern Air Commodore and Vladek Sheybal as the erudite but fishy Nazi officer in charge of the prison/plant fortress). Mind you, while being no great shakes (and probably instantly forgettable), the film proves mildly engaging – to say nothing of eminently watchable – along the way; when all is said and done, there are certainly far worse titles to spend 90 minutes of your life on…

Mosquito Sqaudron is a pleasant surprise. An unashamedly low-budget WWII flick with some classically cheesy comedic scenes. The script for Mosuito Sqaudron closely resembles the Mosquitos themselves – wooden and full of holes. Hey, but that doesn't really matter. Nothing quite puts a smile on your face like watching David McCallum and his co-star driving through the English countryside without a brush of wind disturbing their hair (in near perfect studio-bound silence). Another giggle is the RAF pilot who is missing his right arm, but has an alarmingly large bulge concealed under his shirt (on the upper right hand side). However, my personal favourite is the ultra-camp photo of Qunit and Scotty in their tennis whites. This chummy photo appears throughout the film, including Scotty's parents house, and on Scotty's work desk (in place of his wedding photo.) Anyway, asides from these cherry 60's subtleties, there is a pulsing love triangle to follow, and some impressive weaponry to be dazzled by: Our man Quint is torn by his brooding love for Beth (his best buddy's wife), and guilt-ridden by the knowledge that he may have to drop a giant bouncing India-rubber ball on Scotty's POW camp (that may flatten his best tennis buddy for once and for all). So who will win out at the end of the day? Will Quint score his best buddy's wife as his new trophy? Or will Scotty serve his last ace in the POW camp? Will anyone care? Probably not. The action in the movie reminds me a little of a Ben Stiller — Owen Wilson action flick. Maybe it's the 'Zoolander' type head band that Scotty wears. The fighting is definitely as camp and clumsy, and the tomato sauce is definitely overdone. Thankfully, the real Battle of Britain was not entrusted to these bumbling few or else we'd all be speaking German by now.Anyone for tennis?