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3 December 2004 (UK) moreTagline:
He's got the tool and he'll finish the job. moreAwards:
1 nomination moreUser Comments:
"God, I wish I was an American." moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jon Culshaw | ... | Prime Minister | |
| Tom Clarke Hill | ... | Lieutenant Baker (as Tom Clarke-Hill) | |
| Hamish McColl | ... | Captain Davies | |
| Christian Slater | ... | Winston Churchill | |
| Romany Malco | ... | Denzil Eisenhower | |
| Simon Rake | ... | Reporter 1 | |
| James Long | ... | Reporter 2 | |
| James Putnam | ... | Reporter 3 (as James Puttnam) | |
| Bob Mortimer | ... | Potter | |
| Vic Reeves | ... | Bendle | |
| Neve Campbell | ... | Princess Elizabeth | |
| Harry Enfield | ... | King George VI | |
| Jessica Oyelowo | ... | Princess Margaret | |
| Leslie Phillips | ... | Lord W'ruff | |
| Nigel Harrison | ... | Jack |
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1.85 : 1 moreCertification:
Indonesia:Dewasa | Iceland:12 | Australia:M | Netherlands:12 | South Korea:15 | Finland:K-11 | UK:15Fun Stuff
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On the DVD commentary during the scene where US Churchill and Denzil Eisenhower exit the British War Office: director, Peter Richardson, dubs, "This is very r... relevant to the Iraq War". moreGoofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: The second time US Churchill and Denzil Eisenhower are dockside; as Eisenhower drives the jeep towards camera, what he mouths to US Churchill, and what comes through on audio - doesn't match initially - although as they near the camera, mid-sentence, the audio works its way back in synch. moreQuotes:
Hitler: [to Princess Elizabeth] Today at 3:00, we will be married. It will be a perfect marriage between the glorious 1000 year Reich und the British Empire. Und by 6:00 you will be installed in a glorious new Schloss deep underground in Hannover. Half a mile of reinforced concrete will lie between you and the - shops... moreSoundtrack:
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Is it time for a Comic Strip revival? I think so. Peter Richardson's new film is essentially an update of the CS's classic 'The Strike' (1986), but without that film's slightly off-centre approach to satirising Hollywood. Whereas 'The Strike' misguidedly tried to attack Hollywood vulgarity by caricaturing Al Pacino and Meryl Streep probably the two least dumbed-down, vulgar actors in Hollywood today the new film goes all the way by having Winston Churchill portrayed as a young, handsome American GI, patterned after Bruce Willis by a gleeful Christian Slater. His performance is astoundingly game, the work of a man who knows full well that all his bridges have been burnt. Neve Campbell tries to keep up as a similarly bastardised Queen Elizabeth, but can't quite manage it.
The film's main selling point is its who's-who of British comedy, and here's where it gets a bit hit and miss. Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer and James Dreyfus play camp caricatures who feel a bit out of place in a parody of testosterone-fuelled action movies, and I am sorry to say that those waiting for a return to form for Rik Mayall may have to wait a little longer. On the plus side, Miranda Richardson's randy Eva Braun is a joy, there are splendidly memorable cameos for younger talent like Mackenzie Crook, Steve Pemberton and Mark Heap, and Harry Enfield's King George is absolutely brilliant the kind of hilariously caustic live-action satirical cartoon that I'd nearly given up hope of him managing any more.
You could do a lot worse than see this, not least because, with its jokes about 'U-571' (2000) and 'Pearl Harbor' (2001), not to mention the impossibility of navigating the London transport system and the inanity of Royal public engagements, it represents a rare British comedy for a British market, rather than one with an increasingly desperate eye on the American market.