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Sweet, Funny and Tender

Advantages: Fanatastic script, excellent cast, the soundtrack
Disadvantages: Hard to track down, might be a little too whimsical for some

...When Daniel sees Melody Perkins at school it is love at first sight for him and over time he manages to befriend her, eventually deciding he wants to marry her. Melody and Daniel become closer and she eventually accepts his proposal. So far so good – except Daniel and Melody are both twelve years old, and have quite some opposition to overcome. Opinion I first saw “Melody” when I was thirteen years old and I could almost immediately relate to ...
...to spend his time with Melody rather than go on japes with him and he steals almost every scene he appears in. It’s easy to dismiss Wild as “just” the Artful Dodger, but “Melody” shows his talent and his charisma as an actor, and leaves one wondering what might have been had he made better choices in his life. Roy Kinnear plays Melody’s father and while he’s only in a couple of scenes he is memorable in both, particularly the scene where he, along ...

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A Triple bill from the Boys

Advantages: Very Funny
Disadvantages: Nothing

Laurel And Hardy - Duck Soup / Why Girls Love Sailors / Putting Pants On Phil The Boys: Stan Laurel (June 16 1890 – February 23 1965). Real name Arthur Stanley Jefferson. Stan was born in Lancashire but toured with Charlie Chaplin and hence on one tour ended up in America. He had ‘Arrived’ Oliver Hardy (January 18 1892 – August 7 1957). Real name Norvell Hardy. Ollie was ...
...The magnificent Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy star in this wonderfully funny collection of 3 films. 'Duck Soup', ‘Why Girls Love Sailors’ and ‘Putting Pants on Philip’ A brief synopsis and a short opinion of each and then a summary at the end will follow. Duck Soup The boys are Tramps and find an empty house in the woods. So of course they move in but then a forest fire breaks out and they are caught up in pretending to be the owners. ...

Maximus-Qualitus 04.09.2009 · Read full review
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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 ...

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