
Late in World War II, the Brits still want their hands on a German Enigma, the typewriter-like machine that constructs and sends coded messages. Parachuting behind enemy lines - with two days to find the factory where Enigmas are made, grab one, and get out - are an unlikely quartet: a queen, a pencil pusher, a bookworm, and an almost secret agent. Plus they are all dressed as women, with only a crash course from the queen. They reach their destination, rendezvous with their ... (Full plot summary below)
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Late in World War II, the Brits still want their hands on a German Enigma, the typewriter-like machine that constructs and sends coded messages. Parachuting behind enemy lines - with two days to find the factory where Enigmas are made, grab one, and get out - are an unlikely quartet: a queen, a pencil pusher, a bookworm, and an almost secret agent. Plus they are all dressed as women, with only a crash course from the queen. They reach their destination, rendezvous with their German contact, a lovely librarian, and start their search. They seemed doomed to fail; is this a fool's errand?
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| New York PostLou LumenickIt's not surprising to learn that the story -- which the press notes assert is loosely based on fact -- has been kicking around Hollywood for 15 years. It's that bad. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyNot bad enough to qualify as a memorable dud, multinational production nonetheless misses mark on every level. |
| Journal News (Westchester, NY)Marshall FineThere is more than one joke about putting the toilet seat down. And that should tell you everything you need to know about All the Queen's Men. |
| Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)Jeffrey WesthoffMaybe LeBlanc thought, "Hey, the movie about the baseball-playing monkey was worse." |
| Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonThe fiercely original Eddie Izzard is wasted in this botch, not something you could say for lucky millionaire Friend Matt LeBlanc. |
| San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannWhat we have here isn't a disaster, exactly, but a very handsomely produced let-down. |
| CitysearchMichael PhillipsThis ludicrous film is predictable at every turn. |
| Filmcritic.comMax MessierA crass and insulting homage to great films like Some Like It Hot and the John Wayne classics. |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid NohRuzowitzky has taken this mothball-y stuff and made a rather sturdy, old-fashioned entertainment out of it. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA perfectly good idea for a comedy, but it just plain doesn't work. It's dead in the water. I can imagine it working well in a different time, with a different cast, in black and white instead of color--but I can't imagine it working like this. |