The Guardian
Gillies MacKinnon’s remake of the classic postwar Ealing comedy is light on laughs and feels out of place in 2016.
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Whisky Galore
Scottish islanders try to plunder cases of whisky from a stranded ship in this remake of the 1949 Ealing comedy of the same name. Stars Eddie Izzard.
2016Rating: M, Offensive language96 minsUK
ComedyRomance
- Director:
- Gillies MacKinnon ('Behind the Lines', 'Hideous Kinky', 'A Simple Twist of Fate')
- Writer:
- Peter McDougall
- Cast:
- Gregor FisherEddie IzzardJames CosmoKevin GuthrieEllie KendrickSean BiggerstaffTim Pigott-SmithFenella Woolgar
Whisky Galore / Reviews
Stuff
...from Izzard's constantly black-affronted army man to Kevin Guthrie's mother hen-pecked schoolteacher and Gregor Fisher's scheming postmaster there's plenty of panto-style characters to stir the emotions.
Full reviewNew Zealand Herald
While it's a movie not lacking in nationality, it sure doesn't have much personality. No, it doesn't capture the, och aye, spirit of the original.
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Independent
What makes the film so pleasurable is the humour and lyricism with which it tells its rousing story of whisky-loving small timers coming together together to keep officialdom at bay.
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