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In the entire running time, it clocks in three gags that all work on the same principle that two minor characters make an off-hand quip to each other that will neither give depth or development to anything that is happening. How it can be billed as a comedy is a joke within itself. Peter Cattaneo is most famous for the '90s hit ‘The Full Monty’ and it is amazing to see that since then he has sat down, had a long hard look at himself, rolled up his sleeves and not developed one iota. But to call the directing serviceable would be generous. Now eight years later as the war in Afghanistan still rumbles on and every November the UK tries to outdo itself to see how weird it can get with the Poppy Appeal, its very existence on our cinema screams tactless.Ĭomedy films live and die on their direction, as the performance, script and editing need to be finely tuned to ensure they work in tandem. One of the main real problems of this film is that it largely achieves what it aims to do and that is why it is such an awful experience to endure.īack in 2012 when the original Military Wives Choir cursed our screens and airwaves, it was already a tasteless and mawkish fanning of the flames of jingoism. If this film is so bad then why have I given it two stars? Well, a one-star film is just incompetent, they are rare and can be entertaining in their own way. Apt because the only people that would find something enjoyable in this film are those with brains addled from leather poisoning from the amount of bootlicking they do. Lacking the imagination to produce anything new and interesting, it's left to gnaw on its shoes for subsistence. This movie is indictive of the torpor that British cinema finds itself in. When they are asked to perform at a televised memorial service the choir finds out they have bitten off more than they can chew. Within the choir, Lisa's cavalier attitude irks the recently bereaved Kate (Kristin Scott Thomas). When their husbands go on manoeuvres in Afghanistan, Lisa (Sharon Horgan) is tasked with keeping the wives on the base occupied.

Everything about this film is mishandled and crass.