"No. Camouflage."
Rather like Trank's Fantastic Four, the movie you get here is not really what you expect or perhaps want. Whilst the Dad's Army film is not as dreadful as the Mrs Brown's Boys effort, it comes nowhere close to being as effective as Alan Partridge or even The Inbetweeners in terms of a TV-to-big-screen expansion. Here, the material is treated more as a drama or thriller, to the extent that the very occasional and not very strong comic pratfalls almost feel intrusive. The quality of the cast is undeniable, and most of the actual TV characters prove indestructible (except for a curiously unenergetic Jones here), but what lets the film down is a generally lethargic pace of direction and delivery coupled with an overall muted tone that makes it drag somewhat. The finale comes together surprisingly well, but it comes rather late in the day for the film to find the energy that it mostly lacked throughout.
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