Really Surprised!

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Leland's 'The Land Girls' is an interesting take on WWII. It's shown from a British and female point of view. The movie isn't exactly a war movie but it is more of a romantic drama with WWII as an important background. Storywise, the movie does remind me of 'Belle Epoque' but the treatment is very different. I liked the use of the settings. The beautiful green countryside landscape is breathtaking to watch and the characters are interesting. I liked that the sets weren't overdone because the farm and town look very real. The film has a Brit charm to it but at times the pacing is a tad too slow and I wish the writer and director added more comedy to it. The performances are solid. Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz and Anna Friel are all brilliant as the land girls. Maureen O'Brien is very likable in a supporting role. Steven Mackintosh makes himself noticeable in a film about women. I also liked the gentle soothing soundtrack which is used with fine subtlety. Overall, 'The Land Girls' makes for a decent rainy day flick and it's not bad at all for a one-time watch.

It's not really enough to TELL us it's 1941, put the women in turbans and show the odd uniform if there's no FEEL of the period; frankly Foyle's War (a series on English TV) had more feel for the times and that was far from spot-on in period detail. As it stands Lands Girls could easily be an extra long episode of Heartbeat, or Peak Practice (two other series on English TV, the former set in the 1960s). Probably on paper and/or at the pitching stage this passed muster; a little-explored facet of the second world war with fat parts for women, sign here, Mr. Producer and order a second roller: on screen, however, it's a different story. The acting is fine - as it should be with people like Tome Georgeson in the cast - as it's reasonably well photographed but it's impossible that these people are actually living in 1941 and you can practically see the mobile phones come out in between takes. For the easily pleased.

Whenver I think of women on the home-front during WWII, I picture them in factories taking the place of the men who went to fight. I never really thought that someone had to keep the farms going to feed the people.Over 30,000 women left the cities in England to form the Land Army and milk the cows and plow the fields while the boys were gone off to fight the Germans.Having said that, this was basically a Lifetime movie with a couple of laughs. The funniest part was when Ag (Rachel Weisz) decided to lose her virginity.It was good for a story about the effects of the war on peoples lives, especially their love lives, but there just wasn't a lot there.Besides Weisz, there was Catherine McCormack (28 Weeks Later) and Anna Friel, who had a bigger WWII role in The War Bride. Of course, we also have to mention Lucy Akhurst, who was a zombie in Shaun of the Dead.Recommended for Lifetime fans.

I first saw this movie on cable with my significant other, and though I usually dread this type of film, I found myself drawn to the simple yet enjoyable plot. The love story between Stella and Joe was well done; slow, almost arduous, yet it seemed never to lag, and I felt very attached this movie and its cast. It's just one of those movies that really isn't much to look at or think about, but leaves you with an extremely -- well -- pleasant feeling. Casting was brilliant, and some of the cinematography took great advantage of the beautiful English countryside.