First saw this in a double feature with Monty Python and the Holy Grail thinking it was a B-movie - how wrong I was. This is sheer perfection - the acting, script, set designs, lighting etc. etc. There is nothing to fault in this film and it guarantees plenty of laughs at every viewing. Gene Wilder : never better; Marty Feldman : priceless.
NB. Monty Python and the Holy Grail is not bad either!!!
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Previous reviews have perhaps given a better critical view of this film, but if you are a fan of Wilder and Feldmann you will enjoy this. Leo Mckern makes a fine villain who is both believable and insane, both important to the credibility. Too many of the jokes are simple such as chocolate on the face, but some are sublime such as the wonderful ballroom scene (I will not spoil the joke). For an English audience there is the added 'reassurance' of Roy Kinnear and other 'usual suspects'. The singing, dancing and fencing are unexpectedly good and the whole film becomes an enjoyable romp with some quite dramatic moments.
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Very dated but with flashes of brilliance. The five recovered episodes on this DVD are sloppily edited, with the Make the Lovely Aimi MacDonald Fund being introduced after appearing previously. The extra material is only partly connected with the show, mostly Tim Brooke Taylor's interview. A longer interview with Terry Williams barely mentions At Last the 1948 Show, focusing almost entirely on Do Not Adjust Your Set and (in Passing) Monty Python's Flying Circus. Obviously they put the same extras into both DVD packages.
Still, it's cheap.
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This series of Best Of... comedy DVDs from the Beeb have been patchy to say the least. Many have included classic sketches that you're happy to watch time and again, but a few 'also rans' have krept in too; I accept that one man's 'hit' may be another's 'miss'; but many of these compilations have only around an hour's worth of material which seems rather mean.
This Marty Feldman disc has some great and memorable sketches on it, I think there was only one which disappointed. The picture transfers are fair and the theme tune is actually in stereo! But it does only run for just over an hour with no special features, not even a brief biography. Now that it's being sold for around a fiver it doesn't seem quite such a rip off, but it could have ... Read More:
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I confess I never saw the amazon page for this movie since I bought my old videotape copy in a shop when amazon likely didn't exist yet. But I came across it and just wanted to check why such a humorous, funny, hilarious and brilliant movie was rated so poorly. And I found out.
Found out that my shoes smell of wee. Didn't know that, double checked and still nothing. Somehow I don't feel insulted, just surprised how a comment like that is not against policies.
Anyway, back to the topic. It's an alternative, unconventional and even daring movie that can entertain even using just one audible word: "Non!", unpredictably said, or stated, by somebody that's not supposed to speak at all in real life. But this is not real life, it's the ... Read More:
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I confess I never saw the amazon page for this movie since I bought my old videotape copy in a shop when amazon likely didn't exist yet. But I came across it and just wanted to check why such a humorous, funny, hilarious and brilliant movie was rated so poorly. And I found out.
Found out that my shoes smell of wee. Didn't know that, double checked and still nothing. Somehow I don't feel insulted, just surprised how a comment like that is not against policies.
Anyway, back to the topic. It's an alternative, unconventional and even daring movie that can entertain even using just one audible word: "Non!", unpredictably said, or stated, by somebody that's not supposed to speak at all in real life. But this is not real life, it's the ... Read More:
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I confess I never saw the amazon page for this movie since I bought my old videotape copy in a shop when amazon likely didn't exist yet. But I came across it and just wanted to check why such a humorous, funny, hilarious and brilliant movie was rated so poorly. And I found out.
Found out that my shoes smell of wee. Didn't know that, double checked and still nothing. Somehow I don't feel insulted, just surprised how a comment like that is not against policies.
Anyway, back to the topic. It's an alternative, unconventional and even daring movie that can entertain even using just one audible word: "Non!", unpredictably said, or stated, by somebody that's not supposed to speak at all in real life. But this is not real life, it's the ... Read More:
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