Dad’s Army (2016) 8/10

Starring : Toby Jones, Bill Nighy, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon, Blake Harrison, Daniel Mays, Bill Paterson, Mark Gatiss, Sarah Lancashire, Felicity Montagu, Emily Atack, Holly Dempsey, Annette Crosbie, Julia Foster, Ian Lavender, Frank Williams, Martin Savage, Alison Steadman, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Director : Oliver Parker
Running Time : mins

It’s 1944, and the home guard of Walmington On Sea are tasked with patrolling the cliffs of Dover due to a suspected German invasion, but what they don’t realise is that they have a spy in their midst, and that it could be any one of them.

This was a well made homage to the popular British sitcom from the 60s and 70s. Fans of the original will enjoy that the actors don’t parody the original actors but instead make the roles their own (with a few catchphrases thrown in for good measure). The plot works well, and pays great respect to the original series which quite often had such serious story lines played for jokes.

You’ll like this if you liked : Johnny English Reborn