Diagonaldi Very well executed

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Bob 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.

ianda I can't say I find the film particularly funny, but it interested me because perhaps it shows the difference between French and British humour. À chacun son goût - to each his own taste - of course, and to my taste the film had too much farce, too much slapstick, and too little subtlety of humour. It was like being hit with a humour-hammer rather than being amused intelligently.I have to confess that I didn't laugh once, nor, as far as I'm aware, even manage to raise a smile. I can't imagine that a film of this type would have been the most popular in the UK for as long as it was in France. I was previously unaware of the work of Bourvil and de Funés (sorry, but their constant over-acting did nothing for me) but I certainly knew of Terry Thomas's films, and he was capable of far better than this.I loved the Burgundy scenery, though, and I was happily transported back to holidays in the Côte d'Or and a visit the old hospital at Beaune.

leplatypus It's difficult to make a comedy about WWII (or any other wars as well) because if we can laugh, it must be not too loud. In that sense, the movie is among the best, because we indeed laugh a lot but the drama of the times is always in the background: My fellows were in the same time terrorized by the Germans occupying and courageous to help each other and ruin the Germans plans (for example, my grandmother hided a Jewish child in her Free-Zone village).The casting had a tremendous idea to look for English to play the RAF pilots and German to play the Wechmacht. Thus, our French clowns are more in the spotlight. Fufu is his typical Fufu (the scornful, cowardly middle-class person) and Bourvil is typical Bourvil (the big hearted, simple idiot). Some gags are really funny (the night at the hotel being the climax). The locations are large, from Paris to the free zone, but there are also dragging moments (nearly all the action scenes) that make me rate the movie under their other team-up "Le Corniaud".

nomoons11 this movie has so many moments that you just can't stop laughing its ridiculous. I mean they hit a home run with this one. When the movie is suppose to be about average French citizens helping some stranded US soldiers to help and it ends up being about the keystone cop(soldier) encounters they endure, the constant complaining about the situation their in, you've got a winner. La Funes and Bouvril are just fantastic in this. They play off of each other like Laurel and Hardy. Nothing has even come close to this except maybe The Tall Blonde Man with One Black Shoe (pt's 1 & 2) or Le Cauge aux Folle. If you get the opportunity, see this film, you'll never forget it.

ptb-8 Released in Australia as DON'T LOOK NOW...WE'RE BEING SHOT AT this dubbed French WW2 farce was a runaway hit and most unexpectedly so during winter 1968. Usually French films just are subtitled here but, like Das Boot later, it is one of the few expertly dubbed...maybe there was an English version made given some of the cast. Anyway, it was plonked into one city theater as a filler when some other film fell over...and became a record breaking ticket seller for about 3 months. I can remember (it well) the audience screaming with laughter in the huge 1200 seat Lyceum Theatre...especially during one particular chase scene. The Lyceum was the showcase for most family films like THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE and later WHATS UP DOC so maybe there was an inbuilt audience for Lyceum style shows that helped this film find box office gold immediately. However, after its initial run, it never surfaced again and has never been seen on TV video or DVD in Australia. Just one colossal release and oblivion!