Comedy > H Comedy > Laurel, Stan > 5 GBP to 10 GBP

Advantages: Fantastic Comedy.
Disadvantages: Mostly B/w and some silent.

...pair of comedy genuises called Laurel and Hardy. I bought this DVD entitled 'Sons Of The Desert' and Related Shorts on Saturday, and watched it on Sunday with my husband, who has the same taste as me in films fortunately lol! Our Stan And Oliver DVD information For those of you who don't know these two wonderful comdians (who are you?????), then I shall say that you simply must see at least one of their films, as love 'em or loathe 'em, you need ...
...him, and also the way Laurel cries in that panicky way! It is sooo very funny! It is certainly their trademark comdey, and what a trademark! As you may have guessed, I am passionate about these two, and think they are two of the funniest actors that ever lived! You may not like them if your idea of comedy doesn't include slapstick, but do give then a try before you dismiss them! It is best to watch the B/W version first, and then the colour so ... 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

Advantages: Very funny, great story
Disadvantages: Acting could have been a bit better

The film starts very unusually on the death barge with the Grim Reaper at the helm. On board we have recently deceased ace reporter Joe Strombel (Ian McShane). He meets a woman on board who claims to be the secretary of a rich aristocrat, Peter Lyman (Hugh Jackman), she claims he killed her because she found out that he was the notorious serial killer The Tarot Card Killer. Strombel is a true reporter the end and can't believe the amazing story that ...
...much he can do about it so he decides to escape and jumps of the bare and swims away. Meanwhile, a young American reporter Sondra Pransky (Scarlett Johansson) on holiday in London is at a magic show with her posh English friends. On stage is a bumbling, odd magician The Great Splendini (Woody Allen) he asks for a volunteer from the audience to go into his dematerialising box and disappear. Sondra volunteers and whilst in the box the ghost of Strombel ... Read review