Comedy > 1956 Comedy

Advantages: A family-friendly and very funny adaptation of the classic Jerome K. Jerome story.
Disadvantages: The DVD transfer hasn't been re-mastered, so quality is occasionally low.

...with his dog. The three actors are also perfectly cast. All bumbling English upper-middle class gentlemen, their spiffy behaviour and slapstick antics are hilarious. The situations, of course, are what add to the humour. From the first attempts at erecting a tent during a thunderstorm to getting lost in Hampton Court Maze and trying to open a tin of pineapple slices without a tin-opener, the cast perfectly time their disheartenment with their predicaments. ...
...to woo three young ladies at Henley Regatta and manage to create a pile-up of dozens of speeding rowing boats! While we were watching the film in the context of knowing both the river and one of the cast members, we came away acknowledging that this was a great film. However, I'm sure that even without either of these two connections it is a film that would appeal on a Sunday afternoon. Nothing particularly outstanding about it, but certainly nothing ... Read review

Advantages: Entertaining film, great cast, gorgeous Jayne Mansfield, 1950s music
Disadvantages: None

...my new DVD arrived - The Girl Can't Help It (1956) - and I finally got to see her in a proper starring role… THE PLOT Tom Miller (Tom Ewell) is an agent down on his luck. He hangs round bars and restaurants watching the latest singers and groups, while drowning his sorrows in alcoholic drinks he can't afford. Then he is contacted by Marty 'Fatso' Murdock (Edmond O'Brien), a former gangster who enjoys reeling off the list of men killed in his house. ...
...Murdock can still threaten with the best of them and Miller knows he would be advised to do as Murdock suggests. But what does a shady character like Murdock want with Miller anyway? Well, Fatso has fallen in love with a beautiful woman, Jerri Jordan (Jayne Mansfield) but he feels he can't marry her, unless she is successful and he wants to make her into a singing sensation. Miller has the reputation for being a good agent who has had previous big ... Read review

Advantages: Lovely idea, heart warming and funny.
Disadvantages: A little bit typical.

In 'Run, fat boy, Run' Simon Pegg plays a loser dad who ran out on his pregnant fiancée on the day they were getting married. For 5 years he has desperately attempted to win her back and has beaten himself up so many times about leaving her and whether he was ready to win her back. But when she starts seeing a new boyfriend, who seems polite, charming and brilliant, Pegg thinks he is beaten but decides to try even harder to win his ex-fiancée(Thandie ...
...- running the marathon. It's the perfect answer as the new boyfriend has run many marathons. However there is one problem; Pegg is now where near fit, he can't eve run to the end of the street without taking a rest!!! But with lots of training and little bit of help from his friends Pegg begins to become a marathon runner. But then disaster strikes and Pegg decides to give up. Then discovering that his little boy would be moving to Chicago he decides ... Read review

Advantages: fantastic all round smutty humour
Disadvantages: none... if you can handle smut

Creator and writer: Jonathan Harvey. Directors: Liddy Oldroyd and Tristram Shapeero Producers: John Plowman, Peter Bennett-Jones and mark Chapman Stars: Kathy Burke, James Dreyfus, Beth Goddard, Brian Bovell and Rosalind Knight. Released for the BBC in early 1999 running through until December 2001, creating 18 episodes, at 25 minutes each, split into 3 series, together with a Millennium special… and give a 15 certificate for very obvious reason ...
...IDEA ** Starring the funny Kathy Burke as Linda La Hughes, a fiery loud mouth woman with a mass of ginger hair and big white glasses covering her face, who, although being rather unattractive, sees herself as the most beautiful person on the planet, and James Dreyfus as Tom Farrell, her gay out of work actor flatmate who is so desperate to be loved he tries it on with anyone he sees, but constantly fails at friendship. They share a flat who they ... Read review

Advantages: Funny, hilarious, amusing
Disadvantages: None, watch it!

Peter Bretter (Jason Segal) is a successful composer who has it all. Fantastic apartment, good looks, great job and a celebrity girlfriend, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell) to drool over. When his girlfriend's crime show is dropped from TV, he is also dropped as composer to the show. Then Sarah confesses that she has found someone else and is breaking up with him. Devastated, Peter runs away to Hawaii to help himself forget Sarah, but unknowingly he ...
...her new beau. Whilst recovering from Sarah's shocking appearance, Peter meets up with hotel staff member Rachael Jenson (Mila Kunis), and slowly begins to see things in a different light. This film is absolutely hilarious. Russell Brand completely steals the limelight and delights with his spot on timing and vast portfolio of expressions. If you want to laugh into your sides are really really hurting, watch this movie ... Read review