Comedy > 1973 Comedy

The Definitive - Some Mothers do ave em.

Advantages: Superb
Disadvantages: Nothing

Some mothers do ave em – The Box Set Well, what can you say about Frank Spencer? A gentile man with a heart of gold but the competence of a 3 year old. Frank can’t get a job. His Mac and Beret are not helping. When he gets a job, which is extremely rarely, it never lasts more than a day. The people at the job centre run for cover or start popping pills or hiding in cupboards. His DIY always turns out to be either incompetently ...
...“ Ooh Betty” for some never defined reason sticks with him through it all. With the innocence of a child he meanders through life never quite figuring it all out, a bit like the rest of us really. Frank, Betty, their cat who always seemed to be doing a ‘Whoopsie’ and later their daughter Jessica lived in the most botched DIY house ever to grace the small screen. When Jessica is born near the end of the second series Frank becomes a little more ...

Maximus-Qualitus 18.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em - The Complete Collection (Box Set) (DVD)

The original Oceans 11!

Advantages: A simple film with lots of surprises
Disadvantages: None

The story is set in the 1930's in Chicago. We see 2 men, Hooker (played by Robert Redford) and Luther (played by Robert Earl Jones) con another man. They race off with money that they have taken unaware that the money is being delivered to an illegal betting empire boss. Later Hooker meets with Luther and Luther tells Hooker that he is giving up the con game. He tells Hooker to go to an old friend, Henry (played by Paul Newman) to learn from him. ...
...Hooker runs off afraid that the killers are still around. Hooker finds Henry and they plan to avenge Luthers death by making the biggest con of their life, swindling the betting empire boss Doyle Lonnegan (played by Robert Shaw) out of $500,000. What follows is an elaborate plan with the help of many friends. However, the police and FBI are on their tail. Will the Sting work? Or will the city's most dangerous mobster catch the boys and have the ...

rufusredcoat 14.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Sting (DVD)

Woody Allen's finest hour.

Advantages: Funny, captivating.
Disadvantages: Must like slapstick humour.

...new world being cloned. Sleeper is the film which I would consider to be Woody Allen's finest work. It is genuinely funny, well filmed and the comic acting is top class. Diane Keaton is especially funny also. A science fiction story helped me enjoy the film although it is not technical enough to put you off if sci-fi isn't your thing. It's just a peg to hang the plot on. Factoid: Woody Allen confirmed the feasibility of his scientific ideas with ...
...fun of many sections of society. The Jewish tailor-robots were particularly amusing, one being voiced by Jackie Mason. The leisuretime-rich population enjoy endless dinner parties. Even their sex lives are catered for with the provision of Orgasmotrons and Pleasure Spheres which are handed around as one would a "jazz-cigarette". Random Fact: The futuristic home featured in the film was offered for sale in 2004 for 10 million dollars. Truth-nugget: ...

WoodsM_UK 16.04.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sleeper (DVD)

Carry On Emmanuelle

Advantages: If you like the Saucy harmless Comedy this is for you
Disadvantages: Unfortunately very few of the regular team were in this.

...among the last of the Carry On films is one of the best. Basically a comedic send up of the Sylvia Kristell Emmanuelle films. Williams is hilarious as the French ambasador as is Suzanne Danielle who plays his wife she will sleep with anything that moves. Classic performances from Joan Sims, Peter Butterworth and Kenneth Connor as the randy Chauffer Leyland. Jack Douglas absolutely brilliant as the butler Lions who Suzanne Daniels affectionately ...

sindy123 13.11.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Carry On Emmanuelle (Special Edition) (DVD)

American Legend

Advantages: Traditional 'weepy' tears, but also tears of laughter
Disadvantages: Makes me sad for my lost youth

I'm so glad this has already had a great review. As far as I'm concerned, this is one of the great films of all time, and I dont' think I'm alone in believing this. The film itself is fab, and should be compulsory viewing for all teens. The four lads are so sterotypical, and yet they all come across as believable. The things that happen to each of them are bittersweet - OTT funny and yet we understand it all so well. Terry is nicknamed The Toad, ...
...himselfs as 'Terry the t.... ummm tiger'. Great! So many things are spot on to how it feels to be a teenager. Seeing the girl of your dreams go by in a car and believing that by cruising round you can find her. Going to a radio station to meet your idol DJ. Breaking up and making up. Jumping in and out of cars, staying out all night, trying to decide what to do with your future. I love the endings to each of the four little stories played out as ...

sungold98 14.09.2007 · Read full review
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Review of American Graffiti (DVD)