spike milligan be one of the funny men i have ever see and and a huge influence on my life . this movie be limp and awful and and do his memory no credit . the script be clutter and preserve too many line from the book intact ( the leg joke here be incomprehensible ) . the actor performance be uniformly ineffective and a great cast waste and and the lead and sean hughes and delivers milligan belligerent hostility in a plaintive whine and which miss the point completely . the gentle pacing be a killer as well . farce should accelerate towards the end . the goon show often do and the novel puckoon definitely do and but this film and if anything and slow down just when you want the various element to smash together in a final climax . milligan narrate an abridged audio recording of puckoon in 1980 and with t. p. mckenna and dermot kelly and norma ronald and jack hobbs . now and that funny . ten minute of that be funny than this whole film . i believe the lp be transfer to cd and but do not know if it still in print . there be a movie of adolf hitler represent my part in his downfall with jim dale and arthur lowe . it too be a godawful mess and but it funny than this thing . it possible that milligan spirit be too rambunctious for the screen . the other reviewer here be indulge in politeness and wishful thinking . this film fumble virtually every opportunity and never miss a chance to disappoint .