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Advantages: Bill Murray. Quite funny
Disadvantages: Leo's annoying family

What About Bob? is a 1991 comedy film starring the great Bill Murray (well I like him). It tells the story of Bob (Bill Murray) who is a man with severe mental problems. He has a whole host phobias and is such a conundrum of a mental patient that his psychiatrist had a mental breakdown. He is then passed on to Dr. Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfuss) a brilliant psychiatrist who has just published a new book called baby steps. He meets Bob and actually ...
...steps at everything. Bob takes this literally and starts taking very small steps everywhere and claims it helps. However, a twist in the tale occurs as Leo is going on holiday for awhile and has passed all his patients on to another doctor for the time being. Bob will see no-one else as he thinks Marvin is a genius. He then comes up with an ingenious plan himself to track down Leo and spend his vacation with him. The story then centres around Bob ... Read review

Advantages: Funny, witty loads of fun
Disadvantages: No disadvantages to list

This film is definitely a Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn classic. This is a hilarious romantic classic. Definitely one for the DVD collection. Its warm hearted and cleverly done. Steve Martin and Goldie work fabulously together, it’s a really believable match. So what’s it all about? When architect Newman Davis (Martin) is rejected in his elaborate marriage proposal to girlfriend Becky he is left both broken hearted and with a newly built house as ...
...chance encounter with Gwen (Goldie) and end up having a one-night stand. He tells her about the house and does a drawing. He thinks this is the last he will see of her, but boy is he wrong. What he doesn’t know is that Gwen has a gift for making up unlikely yet convincing lies. Before he knows it she has moved to his town into his house and is telling everyone she is his wife. Although shocked Newton finds himself drawn into the lies as it seems ... Read review

Advantages: Very funny, classy comedy, great cast, good setting, good story line
Disadvantages: None for me

...has a lot to learn. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a remake of a 1960's film which starred David Niven and Marlon Brando playing the leading roles. Set in a fictional, French resort Michael Caine as Laurence Jamieson has been making a good living by way of duping gullible females out of their cash. In league with the local head of police, played by Anton Rogers, he has a nice little earner set up. When Freddy Benson, played by Steve Martin, arrives in ...
...farce thrown in occasionally then this film should entertain and amuse you. Despite being twenty years old it is not really dated. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was directed by Frank Oz and more recently a stage musical has been made of this film. Thanks for reading (C) Eiley 2008 ... Read review

Advantages: Hugh Grant is nice to look at
Disadvantages: Everything else

American Dreamz is the sort of movie that could potentially be very funny. Note that word potentially. Directed by Paul Weitz who also directed About a Boy and American Pie, this movie is set around a popular American reality TV show. I saw the trailers for this and thought it looked good, but I never seem to get round to seeing things at the cinema and ended up getting this on DVD instead. ~The Plot~ The story revolves around the biggest TV show ...
...is overheard singing by the American Dreamz crew. The President of the United States (Dennis Quaid) is due to be a judge on the final night of the show, and Omer's leaders have sinister plans for him. What will happen to the president? And who will win American Dreamz? ~What I thought~ Well, like many films, disappointingly, the trailer shows all the best bits and the rest of the film is rubbish! The plot, as I'm sure you can tell from above, is ... Read review

Advantages: Hillarious, greatly written
Disadvantages: None

...month ago, having never watched Gavin and Stacey before, but I decided to give it a go! Oh my gosh I am so glad I bought it! I ended up and sitting and watching the whole series in one evening, I just couldn't turn it off! It is so so so funny, and the fits of giggles Ruth Jones' character has has me in in unreal, she is so funny! The story line is so romantic as well, in a comedic kind of way. I only wish I had watched Gavin and Stacey whilst it ... Read review