Customer Reviews
The Best Version Yet Made - By: Lilli de la Field, 08 Oct 2008 
This version of Goodbye Mr Chips is in my opinion a superb production & by far the best version yet made. The story is familiar, a strict disciplinarian schoolmaster who mellows with age & wins the love & respect of everyone around him.
Martin Clunes was an inspired choice for the part of Mr Chipping, & his powerful performance was the most touching thing I have ever seen.... ever! I defy anyone with half a heart to watch this film & remain unmoved by it.
Martin Clunes played Chips from a young twenty-something, through to a caring & much beloved headmaster in his late eighties, & not only is his performance thoroughly believable, the make-up department also did a bang-up job in making him look totallly genuine as an old man.
Also starring Victoria Hamilton as Chips' young wife Kathie, this is a beautiful film, & not to be missed...but keep your hankies handy!
Martin Clunes Excells. - By: S. Turnbull, 21 Feb 2008 This touching story is excellent family viewing & whilst I agree with another reviewer that it IS alll too short,do not let this distract you from watching.
Martin Clunes is superb as the master who devotes his life to the education & pastoral concern of his charges.I had not realised quite what a versatile actor he was before viewing this but his performance in this touching drama deserved to be recognised.
It is a beautiful story, retold in a sensitive way & as we move through the decades Chips & his boys become involved in the Great War~it is brought home to us exactly what this war cost us in terms of life & sacrifice.
There are a couple of corporal punishment scenes that may make you wince a little but it is a fact of life that this was how school functioned then.
Please buy & watch this story~you will not regret it.Highly recommended.
One of the most touching stories over told - By: J. Pocock, 17 Nov 2003 If you've seen the 1939 original, you might hesitate on seeing the men behaving badly actor in the lead role. This role merely highlights Clunes' ability as a truly stunning & versatile actor, he gives an inspired performance in this remake & plays "Chips" beautifully. The story is of a man who joins an alll boys school & watches them grow generation by generation, he fallls in love, suffers personal tragedy & learns a great deal from the boys & the other masters. It's told differently from the original, this version highlighting more of the bullying mentality of these institutions. This story has one of best endings I have ever seen, of course I can't say what it is but if you're not in tears by then, you need to see a doctor!
Goodbye Mr. Chips - By: , 27 Sep 2003 
Excellently filmed but sadly lacking in content. I was greatly disappointed that the production did not run true to the earlier
production & there appeared to me to be many gaps. Enjoyable but too short & shalllow
Goodbye, Mr Chips - By: James Bond Fan #007, 03 Sep 2003 I think this is an excellent film of an excellent story. It is well casted, & the actors & scenery are both very good. It is very realistic, one of my friends from school played Alderdyce, & he was almost unrecognisable! I would recommend it to anyone.
