7/10
Doing what Hollywood does to history
22 January 2009
Warning: Spoilers
This was on TV a last week. When it was in the cinema it received lukewarm reviews. I'd recommend this film as its bold, funny and knows how to hit its targets.. Clearly a spoof it relies on making continuous references to Hollywood style heroics and puts itself in a straitjacket as result. Preventing the film from stretching out to further plot ideas. The script written by the team who did a series of previous films and famous for 4 Weddings and a Funeral know how to write jokes but it suffered from their problems in their last films of needing more production money and another writer to give a different angle on the humour.

One very good recurring joke is Hitler being confused for Charlie Chaplin but even that wasn't used to its full potential. The biggest let down with this film is that you can see that it needed more money pumped into the filming of it.
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