The team who made Top of the Form return for another Ronald Shiner vehicle.
Hard going. Unfunny. Just kept going and going. If you like Shiner you'll like this.
I enjoyed Bryan Forbes as a bright officer - he felt like a real type, like Dand McNeill in the George MacDonald Fraser stories. I also like the dim senior officers promoting Shiner.
But the film just dragged on and on. There are gags.
It's set on a Pacific Island - the idea of Shiner being a leader and bluding is funny. That should've been the film really the story of how it came to be, a comic Farewell to the King, but when the film starts he's been there for years.
Sorry this review is grumpy I know. I'm sure the film has its fans.
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