![]() ![]() Only when Joshua Chamberlain - Jeff Daniels, returning as the Bowdoin College teacher-turned-Union officer - shows up is the ugly source of the struggle correctly articulated. The "S" word is hard to come by in this endless epic, just as Abraham Lincoln is forever the unseen, offstage villain of the piece. He utters oaths about "our sacred war of independence," moons over his absent wife and professes to want an end to slavery to his new black cook, "Uncle" Jim Lewis (Frankie Faison). ![]() ![]() "I regard the crime of desertion as a sin against the Army of the Lord," he preaches. Lee's "right arm." If only he'd been given compelling things to say. George Pickett in Gettsyburg, is given center stage and a decent beard for this role as Robert E. It's the story of Stonewall Jackson, his rise from religious fanatic artillery teacher at the Virginia Military Institute to legendary hero of Bull Run and immortal icon of Chancellorsville. Gods and Generals is as laughably drawly as a Foghorn Leghorn cartoon and as animated as a daguerreotype. ![]()
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