This film is a turd, and I hated it!
I expected it to be good, based on what I'd read. I sat down to watch it, believing that I was about the watch a well-thought-out and memorable comedy. In place, I was given completely forgettable and very much predictable drudgery.
The expected humour was replaced with petulant slapstick that would fail to entertain anyone over 12, Hitler-jokes that've been used a million times before, a plot that rips off several superior action-comedies of the last decade; leaving me with a subtle desire that the Germans had won so I wouldn't have had to watch this tripe. Chris Slater is completely out of step with the nature of the film, and was very much the wrong choice for the role, although the King and, naturally, Rik Mayall are among the strong (and actually funny) performances. Churchill: the Hollywood years fails not only to deliver comedy, but also makes no comment on, or parody of the Hollywood history that spawned its' creation. Given the thoroughly unfunny nature of the speech, I'm guessing that the scriptwriters were Germans, who are of course noted for their lack of humour.
I expected it to be good, based on what I'd read. I sat down to watch it, believing that I was about the watch a well-thought-out and memorable comedy. In place, I was given completely forgettable and very much predictable drudgery.
The expected humour was replaced with petulant slapstick that would fail to entertain anyone over 12, Hitler-jokes that've been used a million times before, a plot that rips off several superior action-comedies of the last decade; leaving me with a subtle desire that the Germans had won so I wouldn't have had to watch this tripe. Chris Slater is completely out of step with the nature of the film, and was very much the wrong choice for the role, although the King and, naturally, Rik Mayall are among the strong (and actually funny) performances. Churchill: the Hollywood years fails not only to deliver comedy, but also makes no comment on, or parody of the Hollywood history that spawned its' creation. Given the thoroughly unfunny nature of the speech, I'm guessing that the scriptwriters were Germans, who are of course noted for their lack of humour.