Do panic: the cast pull off a convincing impression – and Catherine Zeta-Jones adds sauce – but there’s something inescapably creaky about this strangest of sitcom revivals.
It takes courage for me to say it, but this celebration surpasses the original.
Faithful but strangely pointless recreation of the classic sitcom, with Catherine Zeta-Jones.
It has a strong, game cast but this is karaoke filmmaking, trading on nostalgia rather than breaking new territory. Affable but forgettable.
Dad’s Army is inoffensive comedy nostalgia and I’d much rather see it than Dirty Grandpa any day of the week.
There is plenty to relish for anyone who remembers the series but what younger audiences and those outside the UK will make of it is anyone's guess.
Perhaps the filmmakers should have done what most big screen adaptions of TV shows do and sent the Home Guard on holiday. Dad’s Army in Ibiza. At least it would have had an identity of its own.
Canny casting and fine performances are undermined by a script that falls short of Croft and Perry’s vintage TV sitcom.
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