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Dad's Army. Image shows from L to R: Private Frazer (Bill Paterson), Private Joe Walker (Daniel Mays), Corporal Jack Jones (Tom Courtenay), Sergeant Arthur Wilson (Bill Nighy), Captain George Mainwaring (Toby Jones), Private Godfrey (Michael Gambon), Private Frank Pike (Blake Harrison), Rose Winters (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Copyright: Universal Pictures / DJ Films
Dad's Army

Dad's Army (2016)

  • 2016 film

The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard is thrown into disarray with the arrival of a beautiful female journalist in the town. Stars Toby Jones, Bill Nighy, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon, Blake Harrison and more.

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Dad's Army review

A great cast brings this classic to life.

Ben Felsenburg, The Lady, 19th February 2016

Dad's Army review

Credit where it's due, there were a few moments that were genuinely funny and one or two that had the audience roaring with laughter. But the problem is that this should have been at parts drawn from the source material leaving the question of whether or not the filmmakers should have just made a good WWII comedy with some drama and characters with emotional depth instead of a poor Dad's Army film with badly impersonated characters.

Andrew Black, The Student Newspaper, 9th February 2016

Dad's Army review - the wit goes awol

Canny casting and fine performances are undermined by a script that falls short of Croft and Perry's vintage TV sitcom.

Mark Kermode, The Observer, 7th February 2016

Don't panic, it is funny... in parts

Nobody could ever make a better Captain Mainwaring than the late, great Arthur Lowe, but Toby Jones pulls off the pomposity, the middle-class chippiness and, above all, the comic timing, to something close to perfection.

Brian Viner, Daily Mail, 5th February 2016

Dad's Army review

Michael Gambon is glorious as Godfrey and Toby Jones charms as the deluded Captain Mainwaring in a "fond, flag-waving if faulty" film.

Mark Braxton, Radio Times, 5th February 2016

Why the women of Walmington are on top

Captain Mainwaring's wife speaks! For anyone who knows the Dad's Army TV series, this fact alone will be enough to tell you that the movie version is marching to a very different tune.

James Gill, Radio Times, 5th February 2016

Dad's Army -- film review

Only Toby Jones emerges with credit in this ill-advised revamp of the BBC's cherished Home Guard sitcom.

Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times, 4th February 2016

Dad's Army reviewed

The casting is a dream but the script lacks nuance and is painfully padded out, and the only decent moment is an outtake played over the end credits.

Deborah Ross, The Spectator, 4th February 2016

Dad's Army review

Don't panic! Oliver Parker's big screen version of classic British sitcom Dad's Army (48 years old this year) is remarkably faithful to Jimmy Perry and David Croft's much-loved original and by no means the travesty that some had feared.

Matthew Turner, Den Of Geek, 4th February 2016

Dad's Army - video review

Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Henry Barnes review Oliver Parker's big-screen adaptation of the much-loved 1960s sitcom, which stars Toby Jones as Captain Mainwaring, leading his Home Guard unit through their farcical trials at the tail-end of the second world war. Dad's Army, which also stars Catherine Zeta-Jones, Tom Courtenay and Michael Gambon, is released in the UK on Friday 5 February.

Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Henry Barnes, The Guardian, 4th February 2016

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