With the 100th anniversary of the First World War commemorations about to happen this year expect an awful lot of grief whoring from the usual suspects . This computer generated animated short might be the perfect antithesis . Set in 1918 it sees the allied forces firmly routed in Europe and the Germans are building a bridge across the English channel which leads to a group of Rugby players from Leeds who are too inept for military service building their own planes and taking the battle to the Huns . Yeah okay it's not supposed to be realistic or historically accurate but is supposed to be fun which it achieves to a degree . Isay to a degree because the story and situations involved go very much over the top and are farcical but no one said cartoons were supposed to be serious . If you're the sort of miserable type who attends anti-war meetings in order to meet other socially inept and ostracised muppets with no sense of humour and more especially no experience of conflict who thinks the topic of war is too grim to laugh at then tough . You will hate this short
What is interesting about this animated short is that it's actually American and was produced by the UCLA . I did notice the narrator had a slight American twang but apart from that the other accents are acceptable . When I say acceptable I don't mean they're convincing but don't sound like an American voice strangling a regional British accent . It's also rare for any American media to not rewrite history by saying American involvement was entirely single handed and a war was won solely by America so this is a nice throwback to the days when Britain won wars and celebrated the fact and were recognised for it