Comedy > 2006 Comedy > up to 5 GBP

Extremely Dodgy Spy Spoof

Advantages: David Niven is OK... Just
Disadvantages: Ludicrous plot, bad performances

...and their grip on the Casino Royale... I think. There are also other characters called James Bond including one played by Peter Sellars and one by Woody Allen. You can probably tell from the brief and fairly confused synopsis that this is a fairly confused film that unfortunately is not mercifully brief. With a star-studded cast such as the one assembled here (add to these Orson Welles, William Holden, Ursula Andress, Deborah Kerr and Ronnie Corbett ...
...fails to be entertaining. One of the key problems is that it makes very little sense. The plot is incredibly confused and although perhaps not essential to such a film, you do need to have some understanding of what is going on. This was not helped by the fact that 5 directors were on board (including Huston). It also suffers from actually not being very funny too despite the roster of 'comic' actors. Niven probably fairs the best as the aging Bond ...

Nixu1980 16.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Casino Royale (DVD)

What a fashion show!

Advantages: brilliant performance, great story
Disadvantages: none

The Devil Wears Prada is a 2006 comedy-drama directed by the American film director David Frankel. He directed Marley & Me recently. The film got several nominations and several awards. For example Meryl Streep won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. The screenplay was written by Aline Brosh McKenna based on the novel of Lauren Weisberger. The film was distributed by 20th Century Fox. The running time is 109 minutes. The classification is 12 ...
...Cooper (Andrea’s boyfriend) The Plot ------------ Andrea Sachs is a young woman who freshly graduated from Northwestern University and is looking for a job. She wants to be a journalist. She goes to an interview to Runway. She is not dressed as stylish as the members of the staff so everybody looks very strange to her. Her interview is not a success so she goes home but right after she reached the reception she is called back that Miranda gave her ...

D_i_a_n_e 08.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Devil Wears Prada (DVD)

Feel good family of Freaks.

Advantages: Funny, and all round good comedy and acting.
Disadvantages: none!

...believes she can win the Little Miss Sunshine beauty contest, 800 miles across the country. The film shows how even the most dysfunctional families can pull together when they need to. Steve Carell heightens the humour as a suicidal brother in law, living with the dysfunctional Hoover family. Foul Mouthed grandpa (Alan Kirkin) is a sex-obsessed drug addict, with a son – Richard (Greg Kinnear), who’s speeches to his children about winning are as interesting ...
...shown in the film) Also little girls reaching perfection, overshadowed by their parents own eagerness to succeed, is not the best way to start a young girls life; the early years of life is when our personalities develop. If young children are lead to believe their worth and value as human beings depend on their physical appearance, then this is likely to become their belief throughout their life. As much as the end is funny, it does seem to end ...

jamespaton 26.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Little Miss Sunshine (DVD)

TV for idiots?

Advantages: Poor comedy
Disadvantages: poor comedy

...com, my huge problem with Gavin & Stacey. As Reality TV show has been so successful for TV they have a few quid to spend on new sitcoms. Channel Four have a winner on their hands with the I.T Crowd and the BBC has Gavin & Stacey, the latter one of the most popular new sitcoms to hit terrestrial for a very long time, although lucky to scrape three million viewers on BBC1, which makes me wonder if this is really all that it seems. Successful sitcoms ...
...sitcoms - but it isn't Gavin & Stacey. I have yet to laugh at it; where as the I.T Crowd is just silly silly funny every time. I just don't get why Gavin & Stacey is so popular. Yes it's inoffensive and warm and some people clearly can relate to the characters but the writing is so safe and the jokes anything but risky I just switch off. I have tried to get it but it's not there for me. It's the same scenario with the Royal Family on BBC1 and ITV1`s ...

thedevilinme 23.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Gavin And Stacey - Series 1 (DVD)

An honest appraisal

Advantages: So lacking in depth that it makes you feel quite smart and superior.
Disadvantages: Mainly the infuriatingly simple treatment of an interesting idea and the complete absence of charm

In my opinion this film deserves the lowest rating possible because of its combination of failures, relating to both substance and style. The former is demonstrated by the lack of thought that went into making and producing 'Click'. As a film that deals with (potentially) complex issues of time and causation, Sandler having the ability to slow down, stop or speed up 'time', one could reasonably hope to expect an intellectually sophisticated treatment ...
...anomolies and blatant inconsistencies in the effects of the time control is facile and ultimately pointless. In short, to the thoughtful viewer, this film is very unsatisfying My second complaint is to do, as I said, with style. Now, this film would have survived if it was dull but charming, however instead it combines a lack of rigour with a deficiency in charm to produce what I can only describe as a film completely lacking in merit. It is so cheesy ...

enchantingchap 16.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Click (DVD)