Sky Bandits

I was expecting an adventure spectacle, but what I got was a wacky comedy in which World War I looks roughly the same as World War II in 'Allo 'Allo!. I of course didn't mind. A suicidal British squadron operates in France, which has a base as a flying circus in a classical circus; the planes are handled by the brilliant mechanic Fritz, a German who hit his head in a shoot-down and has been pretending to be British ever since... And then two Americans come in, acting typically American. There is probably no point in describing the plot any more than that. I can understand people waving their hands over this film and muttering something about the perpetual crap (it's certainly true that it's not miraculously shot, and for many scenes I felt that the editor cut them off in the middle, even in the middle of the dialogues). However, I really enjoyed it. I roared with laughter during the final (by the way, very good) duel between the airship and the formation of two, three and four quadruplanes made of car wrecks. (12/05/2013)