Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2848 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-08-11
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 109 minutes

Customer Reviews

The spirit needed to win
This film is based on a true story, that one of the two writers (Richard Everett) read in a book, "The Amateur Commandos" by Raymond Foxall, in Godalming Library. It is about two army dentists who had repeatedly applied for active service in WWII and had repeatedly had their requests turned down. Finally, the older man, Sergeant King decides he and Private Cuthbertson will send an explanatory letter to Churchill together with their army pay books, then they will take a train to Plymouth and cross the channel to occupied France where they will blow up some German ships. They don't find any ships to blow up but they do find wires to cut, railway lines to blow up and a radar station to attack. When they run out of hand grenades, they make their way back home, well satisfied with a job well done.

It's a lovely story: beautifully written and wonderfully acted, it's funny and moving, and it's also the type of story that generates a warm-hearted sort of pride. Two very ordinary, absurd, English heroes, sick of making dentures, determined to join the fight; they break the rules, take ridiculous risks, seem at times bumblingly inefficient - but they succeed! Churchill, who was having a very difficult time at this point in the war, was considerably cheered by the mad-cap but morale boosting endeavour.

Great British Yarn
This film is supposedly based on a true story - and in fact it's so far-fetched that it has to be true. Set during world war two, it tells the amusing tale of an old sergeant and a young recruit, both of whom are mustard keen to 'do their bit', but find themselves trapped within the Dental Corps. Having written to Winston Churchill to explain their intentions, the old Sergeant then takes his ardent young colleague over to France for a bit of 'derring do'. To say more would spoil the film, but I thoroughly enjoyed it for its humour and its 'feelgood' factor.

a fabulous film
This is simply the best film that I have seen in a long long time, proper film making with a plot rather than a hollow string of special effects like most recent films seem to be. It's hard to believe that Two Men Went Two War wasn't shown more widely in the cinemas, as it deserves to have been a general release. A rare war film in that it's enjoyable by everyone and isn't just for those who like explosions. The characters' story draws you in and there's true comedy throughout, even when things are going wrong for the pair of unlikely heroes, with lots of laugh out loud moments. In brief, two military dentists, one considered past it and the other a bit dim, get tired of making dentures so they pack a bag full of grenades and buns, "requisition" a boat and invade France to "do their bit" in style. This is the war in a way you've never seen it before...