Oldman's performance was outstanding but the actual movie felt as though it were made-for-TV.
I give the movie some credit for not entirely sugarcoating Churchill. He was plainly a PITA and was fortunate things shook out the way they did. Dunkirk could've been a catastrophe.
This early Peter Jackson film was not at all what I was expecting. It's basically an R-rated satire of the Muppets complete with variety show musical numbers and in some ways it was ahead of its time. The practical special effects and puppeteer work are actually quite impressive considering how low budget it is and there's a huge cast of puppets. The dark, irreverent and often gross humor works surprisingly well despite how bizarre it is seeing children's puppets working with such adult oriented material. While I wouldn't recommend it to fans of his modern work it certainly fits in with his other splatter era work and it's an interesting look at his early career.
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