Dad's Army - review

The overriding sense of "leave it be" is a prevalent one that lingers over this endeavour like a dark, menacing cloud.

The dangers of dismissing Dad's Army nostalgia

There is a danger in dismissing the cult of nostalgia that Dad's Army represented both in 1968 and in today's version that we lose the meaning of that moment. Mainwaring, Wilson, Jones, Frazer, Godfrey, Pike & Walker were in their own way the most popular Popular Front of them all.

Video: Getting nostalgic with Dad's Army cast

The stars of the new Dad's Army film, Toby Jones and Catherine Zeta Jones, have said they grew up watching the show on TV.

The film, directed by Oliver Parker, moves the Dad's Army story to May 1944 as the Allies prepare to invade occupied Europe.

Toby Jones takes on the role plays Captain Mainwaring and Catherine Zeta Jones plays a glamorous journalist who arrives in Walmington-on-Sea to write about the Home Guard.

Cast members Sir Tom Courtenay, Sir Michael Gambon, Bill Paterson, Blake Harrison and Daniel Mays tell entertainment correspondent Tim Masters their memories of filming in Bridlington.

Dad's Army film spotlights role of women in the war

By its very nature, Dad's Army was always a male-dominated affair. But the new film version takes a different approach.

Film review: Dad's Army (PG)

How do you improve on the perfection of Jimmy Perry and David Croft's sitcom Dad's Army, which began active service in 1968 and remains a jewel in the crown of the BBC comedy archives? You don't.

Dad's Army review

Faithful but strangely pointless recreation of the classic sitcom, with Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Review: Dad's Army (PG) - no need to panic

Toby Jones and Michael Gambon silence the doom-mongers with a worthy remake of a TV classic, says Andy Lea.

Dad's Army review: Did they like it up 'em?

Michael Gambon is glorious as Godfrey and Toby Jones charms as the deluded Captain Mainwaring in a "fond, flag-waving and family friendly" film remake.

Frank Williams and Ian Lavender interview

Ian Lavender and Frank Williams are back as Pike and the vicar in new movie about the Home Guard in the Second World War.

Dad's Army review: who don't you think you are kidding?

Do panic: the cast pull off a convincing impression - and Catherine Zeta-Jones adds sauce - but there's something inescapably creaky about this strangest of sitcom revivals.