Comedy > 15 GBP to 20 GBP Comedy > 2004

The Perfect Title

Advantages: Funny, Entertaining
Disadvantages: It was really just so-so.

...Matty wants to go to the same college as his girlfriend as he feels like he is growing apart from her. However, they've both scored low and only have one more chance to take the test and neither are hopeful. So Matty comes up with a desperate plan; he wants to break into the office of the people who make the test and steal the answers. Along the way they enlist the help of Francesca (Scarlett Johansson). Francesca's a punk-esque feminist who runs ...
...the building that holds the exam-board's offices and luckily enough for them Francesca doesn't very much like her father. Kyle also invites Anna Ross (Erika Christensen) on the team much to the dismay of Francesca and Matty who don't trust Anna at all because Anna is rated as the second smartest person in the school but what they don't realise is that Anna despite being very smart freezes every time she has to take the exam and is under extreme pressure ...

Phelthew 08.11.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Perfect Score (DVD)

Friends Series 10: The Final Episodes!

Advantages: End of a classic Series
Disadvantages: Its the end!

This DVD is the end of the road for arguably the best comedy television programme ever and it could not end on a better note. I won't delve into much detail about the content of the episodes becayse I don't want to reveal the excellent ending. The writers must have worked hard on these episodes as it draws the series to an excellent finish, with the gang all tying up loose ends and it ends on a very good note and no other ending would have been ...
...keep the comedy flowing through the episode, with the characters seeing the funny side asd the end of the group becomes ever more inevitable. I cannot really say much more because it truly is an excellent ending to a brilliant series. However, although this does have the final episodes on it, I would recommend the box set as well as unlike this DVD, it is packed full of extras that can allow you to see behind the scenes action and out takes from ...

slate_dawg 11.07.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Friends - Series 10 - Vol. 5 (DVD)

The wedding of the year 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding'

Advantages: Fun, nice story
Disadvantages: Predictable

I first watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding a few years ago and although it hasn't become one of my favourite films, I do still watch it from time to time. The film first came out in 2002 so has been around for quite a while now. The story of the film is based around a character called Toula Portokalos (Christina Eleusiniotis). Toula is from a greek family, who take the traditions of their culture very seriously. Her family own a resteraunt called 'Dancing ...
...her thirties and yet has never really done anything with her life. She is plain and no-one really notices her as she goes around her everyday life. One day Toula decides to do something about her life and signs up to a college course. It isn't easy for her to persuade her Father Gus (Michael Constantine), but her Mother Maria (Lainie Kazan) manages to help her. Once she has started the course she starts to feel more confident in herself and decides ...

wendz86 28.12.2009 · Read full review
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Offender of the Universe

Advantages: sick slick rapid succession of one line jokes
Disadvantages: turns the air blue, plenty of bad language, not for the easily offended

Jimmy Carr is the Marmite of Comedy, you either love him or hate him, there’s not really much in between. On the UK comedy scene for the past 10 years, he has become more and more known over the past few years, in particular as host of comedy quiz ‘8 out of 10 cats’ and voice of many a Channel 4 ‘Top 100 shows’. Carr himself was voted number 12 in the ‘Top 100 Comedians’. Personally I love Jimmy Carr. Then again, I love a lot of the modern comedians, ...
...over the past decade. Jimmy Carr Telling Jokes is his latest DVD release. There are four previous releases of his stage show, all recorded at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London over time from 2005 until this year. One of Jimmy Carr’s previous DVDs opens with a warning: “This show is not for the easily offended, this is not even for those difficult to offend, this show is for people without moral compass.” Not only is this true for the DVD is was on, ...

Tempus_Fugit 27.12.2009 · Read full review
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Fawlty towers (Timeless comedy)

Advantages: Very verry funny
Disadvantages: none

...box set has them all. Fawlty towers is a hotel in Torquay, which is based on a real hotel (Gleneagles in torquay) where the monty python team stayed. All the other pythons left but John Cleese decided to stay and get material from this manager. He invited his wife Connie Booth to come and stay with him, and they began writing Fawlty Towers. The first series was shown in 1973. John Cleese plays the happless Basil Fawlty, who is Married to Cybil ...
...and the only one who is sensible and she is person who makes the beds and sets the tables. Manwell (Andrew Sachs) is the spannish waiter who can speak virtually no English. This allows for a lot of funny scenes. It is a sad thing that there were only 12 episodes made, but it may have made it become tired when they try and do too much. The 2nd series didn't come while four years later in 1977, and at this time John Cleese and Connie Booth were also ...

hardingjenny 27.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Fawlty Towers - Complete Fawlty Towers (DVD)