Dad's Army (2016 film)

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Dad's Army
Dads army poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Oliver Parker
Produced by Damian Jones
Screenplay by Hamish McColl
Based on Dad's Army
by David Croft
and Jimmy Perry
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Music by Charlie Mole
Cinematography Christopher Ross
Edited by Guy Bensley
Production
company
DJ Films
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Release dates
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  • 5 February 2016 (2016-02-05) (United Kingdom)
Running time
 100 minutes[1]
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Box office $12.8 million[2]

Dad's Army is a 2016 British war comedy film, based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Oliver Parker, set in 1944, after the events depicted in the television series. The story sees Catherine Zeta-Jones play a glamorous journalist, who is sent to report on the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon. This is all before MI5 discovers that there is a German spy, hiding in the fictional British town.

The production design was by Simon Bowles, and the cinematography by Christopher Ross. The film was released on 5 February 2016 in the United Kingdom by Universal Pictures.

Plot

The film is set during 1944, near the end of the Second World War in sight. In Walmington-on-Sea, Captain Mainwaring's Home Guard suffers from sense of confidence and usefulness and from low motivation. This is until a glamorous journalist, Rose Winters arrives to cover a report on the platoon's exploits and activities. All the men are riled up with her presence, especially Captain Mainwaring and Sergeant Wilson. Meanwhile, MI5 have discovered a radio signal transmitted from Walmington towards Berlin, apparently the work of a spy. This gives Home Guard a chance to make a real presence in the war. The troop tries to catch the spy, Rose informs the troop that Sergeant Wilson is the spy and Mainwaring believes her and arrests him. Meanwhile towns two old bats speculate from their investigative evidence that Rose is the foreign agent among them. Winters record the information that the base set at Walmington is a dummy one for German satellites. The troop and their army wives rally to stop Winters and they engage in a cross fire with a German U-boat and a bunch of wehrmacht soldiers helping Winters to escape. The u-boat flees without boarding Winters. Captain Mainwaring arrests Winters and hands them over to MI5. The town celebrates the troops achievement.

Cast

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Ian Lavender makes a cameo as Brigadier Pritchard, providing a link with the original series,[3] Frank Williams reprises his role as the Vicar.[4] The regular series character of the Verger Maurice Yeatman was not recreated for the film.[citation needed] Mrs. Mainwaring, who was a completely unseen character for the whole of the original series, now has a prominently visible role in the film, where she is portrayed as a Chief Volaunteer of the local Auxiliary Territorial Service, and is even more pompous, domineering and vociferous than her husband.[citation needed]

Production

Filming began in Yorkshire in October 2014.[5][6] Principal photography took place at North Landing, Flamborough Head and Bridlington. The East Riding Theatre in Beverley was used for Church Hall/Parade room and Captain Mainwaring's office. Sections of the film were also captured in Leeds and Pickering.[7]

Location filming for the film, at North Landing, Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. The scene involved German soldiers shooting with rifles and machine gun from behind their landing craft, at some of Captain Mainwaring's platoon. These are taking shelter behind 'concrete' anti-tank emplacements.
Michael Gambon as Private Godfrey, on the set of Dad's Army in October 2014. Filming took place on the beach at North Landing, Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, and at nearby Bridlington.

Reception

Dad's Army has received negative reviews from critics. The film currently has a 33% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 28 reviews, with an average rating of 4.9[8] On Metacritic, it has a score of 38 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[9]

Sean O'Grady, of The Independent, gave the film a five star review, remarking that rather than threatening the series' legacy, it "surpasses the original", calling it a "well-crafted reproduction" containing all the elements that made the original so clever, durable and loveable.[10]

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian was less convinced, giving it just two stars, arguing that "it’s hard to escape the sinking feeling that this is a waste of talent – and that this is a good-natured, well-meaning but pointless kind of Brit-comedy ancestor worship, paying elaborate homage to a TV show that got it right the first time."[11]

References

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