Hope and Glory (1987)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

I love history .I love war movies This is simply boring to watch Dull movie

If on re-seeing this 27 years after it's initial release, it didn't quite hold up to all my grand memories, it came pretty close. Whatever it's forgivable flaws, this is a unique and wonderful film. Showing life in WWII Britain through the eyes of a young buy, it's a very odd look at war, filled more with comedy, family warmth and a sense of adventure, than of tragedy (although tragedy always seems to threaten, from just around the corner). The acting is superlative throughout, and Boorman's camera really seems as though it sees with the senses of his child hero Bill. The first two thirds of the film, as the family lives through the blitz, with bomb raids a part of daily life and houses all around them being blown to pieces is as remarkable, human, funny, sad and surreal as I remember. Only in the last third, when the family leaves London for the safety of the countryside does the film lose some steam, trading the completely original and honest feeling of a child's experience of a war, for eccentric relatives in the English countryside – something that feels far more familiar, if still well done. But, in spite of that slight letdown, this is certainly a film worth seeking out and seeing. It's very strange – given how popular it was with audiences and critics, and the fact it was nominated for 5 Oscars including best picture that it seems to be out of print on DVD in the U.S (not to mention never having a well deserved blu-ray release). Hopefully someone will rectify that soon. (listening Criterion)?

As someone who was 9yrs old at the start of the war and lived in the London suburb of Southall I found the film unbelievably accurate and it was like watching my very own experiences all over again. From having my sister and I 's evacuation to relatives in the U.S. canceled at the last minute because a previous ship from the London area was torpedoed, to the scrambling over bomb sites and collecting shrapnel it was uncannily similar. I was playing with my lead soldiers out on the pavement when that first test Siren went off and we were all herded under a bed downstairs. Lead soldiers lost their appeal with all the excitement of dog fights over head , near misses from bombs that flattened nearby houses and the joy from us all ( as in the film) school was canceled when an unexploded bomb landed in the playground. I was not lucky enough to have a rich uncle who lived on the Thames though,so when the bombing got a bit too much we were sent off to Bristol with our relatives there until Bristol started getting pounded just as much as London.Seen the film 4 times now with last night's showing on Foxtel 27/6/2013 always a joy to watch for the memories. Since first posting my review I have read all the others and was a little surprised at the negative comments of some. Possibly the film is viewed a lot more favourably by the English, especially if from that era as I was. But I can assure everyone that I cannot fault the accuracy of most of the events and the attitude of most people coping with it all. Of course there was death and destruction all around, but as long as it wasn't personally you , humour helped everyone cope, which surely is not just a British trait ? The film was supposed to be through a boys eyes after all, nit picking a film that was as true a recreation of how life was for an ordinary family in war time , just beats me. As in the film, I as another 9yr old, never at any time felt the fear that my parents and other adults were probably fighting in their own way. I was just caught up in all the excitement part of it. I have to get a D.V.D. copy of the film now to give to my Grand children, and say " That's what it was like." So true to how it was.!

In fact, the story is good with a young actor who plays very well. But the film is old and the plot is getting worse and worse. What a pity ! And the film is very long and it's very boring. But I think that the film is a good idea because we can see the war through the child's eyes and it's very interesting.This film shows us that children do not perceive events as adults. They see the war as one game rather than a disaster. I love the grand-father in this film. He is really strange but he brings a little humor in the movie. He's crazy !I hate the end which is not in reality or maybe it is because I didn't understand it. I find the story lacks in action which makes it boring. But the beautiful story between the sister and the soldier carries more "action". Generally, this film is really average in any case it is not the film of the year !