Rent Jackboots on Whitehall (2010)
2.7 of 5 from 61 ratings
1h 28min
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- Synopsis:
- The action begins as the Nazis - led by a camp Hitler in a dress (Alan Gumming) - plan an invasion of England. As Winston Churchill (Timothy Spall) plots an evacuation to Scot Land... somewhere in England's green and pleasant countryside, farmworker Chris (Ewan McGregor) is trying to win the heart of Daisy (Rosamund Pike) while rueing the fact that he can't fight for his country because his "hands are too big". When the Germans finally invade and blitz London, it falls to Chris and his countryside cohorts to come to the rescue and the raggle-taggle band head to Hadrian's Wall to seek help from the "bloodthirsty" Scots.
- Directors:
- Edward McHenry, Rory McHenry
- Voiced By:
- Ewan McGregor, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Timothy Spall, Tom Wilkinson, Alan Cumming, Dominic West, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Richard Griffiths, Richard O'Brien, Pam Ferris
- Studio:
- Sony
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Comedy
- Collections:
- British WWII Films: The Home Front and Europe, Getting to Know: Ewan Mcgregor, Remembering Tom Wilkinson
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Reviews (1) of Jackboots on Whitehall
Watchable puppet drama but not as funny as it thinks it is - Jackboots on Whitehall review by PV
OK so this film has a stellar cast - of voices.
It is essentially a puppet movie and the extras on the DVD shows how it was filmed. I did like the puppets, esp Goebbels.
One wonders how new film makers got the funds and the names.
It is not nearly as clever as it thinks it is, however, and not in the same league as TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE.
The plot is daft and occasionally funny - but peters out rather towards the end which flops. Maybe it's a wish fulfilment fantasy from the writer/directors (who have Scot Land names). And of course, in real life Hadrian's wall is in England and was never a border between Scotland and England. In real history.
And what accent is Ewan McGregor doing? West country via Scot Land?
Some smutty humour does not save it, and some very metropolitan elite superior claims of the people being little Englanders are trite, pompous and inaccurate.
One wonders if wokeness would allow this to be made now too, especially with the Punjab regiment. and associated jokes.
BUT watchable. And mercifully not too long. 3 stars.
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