Customer Reviews
An enduring classic - By: Elizabeth Goldsack, 11 Nov 2008 
I was nearly put off buying this film as it seems that some of the reviewers don't think it quite as good as the series. However, I have now bought it & think it is brilliantly made, very funny & a wonderful film to put by for a quiet moment during the Christmas holidays when the TV listings are disappointing or for a rainy Sunday afternoon. My children love it, my parents love it, we love it - so nice to be able to sit down to a film together as a family.
Unlike the series which is set solelyin Britain parts of this film are of the Germans plotting their invasion from the other side of the Channel. The juxtapositioning of the German preparedness & the British unpreparedness is priceless. You will recognise some plots from the earliest TV episodes but I enjoyed them far morein this film.
Some lovely outdoor shots, including the town of Chalfont St Giles which doubled as Walmington on Sea for the film.
You STUPID BOY!!!! - By: Christopher Bishop, 19 May 2008 I brought this film on one of my first trips back home to the UK for the pawltry sum of 2 pounds 99 from WHSmiths.
The one thing im going to tell you about film spin offsin the 70s of famous sitcoms is that basicaly they were really juggled around old scripts from the tv episodes.
Steptoe & son did it On the buses did it & so did alf garnetin (in sickness &in health).
The one of films are great old fatihfulls for which i really watch for the nostalga of growing upin the UKin the late 70s & 80s.
Year after year i drag my old claasics out & create my own ye olde British Christmas & create the nostalga of my growing upin Britain at that time for which really no longer even exsitsin the UK anylonger.
Anyway the dads army film seems to be a mix of the first ever episode of dads army & another episode called the deadly attachment which was all about the platoon having to guard a german U boat crew.
I am very fond of dads army & another of the creations of the people that wrote dads army was It aint half hot mum but i really didnt like that series as much.
It was well worth the 2 pounds 99 .
At the moment having all these old classics on DVD seems to be the only way now you can watch decent comedy & TV now adays is riddled with stupid reality shows that basicaly get on me nerves so bad the only thing i watch on TVin the States is the history channel & discovery channel.
All i have to say is long live the good ole days of decent family viewing & thank god for DVD.
Save Your Money - By: Artemisia Absinthium, 02 Mar 2007 
I purchased this before the BBC began releasing the individual series. It was grand to re-live a programme that I hadn't seenin years. (It had long since stopped being a Britcom staple on the American PBS network.) The first episode of disk one, "The Day the Balloon Went Up", actually had me laughing out loud, something few television comedies have donein years. Overall, the video qualityin general for this DVD package wasn't great, but it wasn't horrendous either.
What a difference a year makes!
The BBC/Region 2 releases are intact (at least as far as the non-missing episodes are concerned), whereas the episodesin this set are not . Whether cut for commercials or for PBS time requirements isn't specified on the box. In some episodes, there is only a line or two missing; whilein others, whole scenes are gone. A prime example of this is "The Deadly Attachment", which is missing vital plot points.
If you'rein Region 1 & don't have a multi-region player, it's worth the purchase. Otherwise, purchase the BBC/Region 2 releases. The friend to whom I gave this set is enjoying it immensely.
Even more great dads army - By: Florencium, 20 Feb 2007 I love dads army. The series are brilliant & this movie lives up to it. This is even better than the normal episodes (which says a lot). If you like comedys & things where everything goes wrong then get this video. IT IS AMAZING.
For completists only - By: Trevor Willsmer, 06 Feb 2007 Dad's Army is probably the most disappointing of the endless run of TV spinoffs that clogged up British cinemasin the early 70s, not so much for the flat direction & dreary script (mostly expanded from the episodes The Man & the Hour & Battle School) but because the original show still holds up as one of the best Britcoms ever made thanks to its warm writing & character based humor, neither of which arein evidence here. The film is competent but almost completely devoid of jokes, & the few there are are killed at birth by director Norman Cohen's inability to use the cast to the best effect or to display even the most elementary grasp of comic timing.
Columbia's extras-free DVD at least boasts a good transfer.
