Jackboots on Whitehall (2010)
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47% of critics liked it
(17 reviews) -
28% of users liked it
(757 ratings)
World War II: What if Nazis seized London and all of England had to band together? When scarily campy Nazi leaders invade by drilling under the English Channel and up through the cobblestones on Whitehall, Churchill leaves his quiet retirement with a cat that looks like Hitler to issue a call to… More World War II: What if Nazis seized London and all of England had to band together? When scarily campy Nazi leaders invade by drilling under the English Channel and up through the cobblestones on Whitehall, Churchill leaves his quiet retirement with a cat that looks like Hitler to issue a call to arms from his bunker under Downing Street. Chris, a young farm worker with large hands, rallies the village to fight the good fight -- including an alcoholic Vicar, the oldest man in the town, several idiots, a random Frenchman and Bobby Fiske, a swearing American who believes he's battling Russia. -- (C) New Video
- Directed By
- Edward McHenry
- Genres
- Comedy, Animation
- In Theaters
- Jun 20, 2010 Wide
- Studio
- Entertainment Motion Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Dave Calhoun, Time Out
A notable voice cast, including Ewan McGregor and Timothy Spall, makes very little mark at all. Profoundly silly, it should be. Pointless, it shouldn't.
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Brian Orndorf, BrianOrndorf.com
A refreshing offering of comedic insanity. The movie tuckers out quickly, but when its mix of chaos and slapstick comes together, it makes for a highly enjoyable curiosity.
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Henry Fitzherbert, Daily Express
For sheer oddity value this creation of filmmaking brothers Edward and Rory McHenry must rank as some kind of collector's item.
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Alistair Harkness, Scotsman
A thoroughly mirthless, baby-brained attempt to apply the gross-out humour of Team America to an alternate history of the Second World War via an unfunny script and risible voice acting from a cast that should know better.
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Stephen Jewell, SFX Magazine
The film?s real undoing is the weak script. Dominated by tired racial stereotypes, it?s as if the McHenry brothers have watched too many old episodes of ?Allo ?Allo.
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Cast
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Ewan McGregor
as Chris
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Rosamund Pike
as Daisy
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Alan Cumming
as Adolph Hitler
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Timothy Spall
as Winston Churchill
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Tom Wilkinson
as Joseph Goebbels
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Richard O'Brien
as Heinrich Himmler
- Pam Ferris
- Richard E. Grant
- Hugh Fraser
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Dominic West
as Billy Fiske, Fiske
- Tobias Menzies
- Brian Conley
- Sanjeev Bhaskar
- Stephen Merchant
- Neil Newbon
- Alexander Armstrong
- Benedick Blythe
- Martyn Ellis
