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Bookmark this pageChurchill: The Hollywood Years (2004)
Director: Peter Richardson
Movie review
From Time Out London
This in-time-for-Xmas turkey is down there at the rank end of recent big-screen British comedies. It’s a return to the ’80s for ‘Comic Strip’ co-creator Richardson who posits an alternate world-view in which Churchill wasn’t the cigar-chomping PM that history recorded but a gun-toting, rapping GI (Christian Slater) who saved us Brits from the nefarious clutches of Da Fuhrer (Anthony Sher) – here a guest of Harry Enfield’s dim-witted King George at Buck House – and got it on with Princess Elizabeth (Neve Campbell) to boot. Neither the script nor the mainly retro-comedic cast – including Vic and Bob as mincing Palace footmen (!) – muster much that could legitimately be described as funny. The scant few genuine laughs come courtesy of bloopers and outtakes, although Phil Cornwell’s Leytonstone-born SS officer does raise a chuckle or two. Poor.Author: MS
Time Out London Issue 1789: December 01-08 2004
Cast & crew
Director: Peter Richardson
Producer: Jonathan Cavendish, Ben Swaffer
Cast: Neve Campbell, Christian Slater, Anthony Sher, Vic Reeves full cast
Rated: 15
Duration: 86 mins
UK Release: Dec 3 2004
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