Churchill: The Hollywood Years is essentially a one joke film, that joke being the tendency of Hollywood to claim American credit for everything, but particularly the outcome of World War II (OK, there is perhaps a second joke, namely the British willingness to be the underdog). Without getting into an argument about whether the USA deserves sole credit for the Allies winning WWII, it must be admitted that there are many movies in which you might think that there were no other Allies, and I am thinking about Errol Flynn winning the war in Burma, and the much more recent U-571, in which a group of American submariners captured an Enigma code machine from a German U-boat (er, no they didn't).
The point is that this US tendency to heroify the US role (which doesn't actually need heroification) is mercilessly lampooned in this movie, in which the "truth" comes out - Churchill was actually a pretty gung-ho Yank (played by Christian Slater).
It's a joke, and it's a pretty good one: the trouble is that it's a bit of a lame one to sustain an entire movie (it would be better suited to an hour-long TV special). Having said that, there is a moderate amount of funniness in it, a good cast of familiar British faces of the noughties, and even a couple of yanks having fun (the aforementioned Mr Slater, as well as Neve Campbell playing Queen Elizabeth as a Princess).
So it is recommended, but not as wholeheartedly as I would have liked to.
The point is that this US tendency to heroify the US role (which doesn't actually need heroification) is mercilessly lampooned in this movie, in which the "truth" comes out - Churchill was actually a pretty gung-ho Yank (played by Christian Slater).
It's a joke, and it's a pretty good one: the trouble is that it's a bit of a lame one to sustain an entire movie (it would be better suited to an hour-long TV special). Having said that, there is a moderate amount of funniness in it, a good cast of familiar British faces of the noughties, and even a couple of yanks having fun (the aforementioned Mr Slater, as well as Neve Campbell playing Queen Elizabeth as a Princess).
So it is recommended, but not as wholeheartedly as I would have liked to.