Comedy > Swedish Comedy

(What) if God were one of us - It'd be quite amusing!

Advantages: The cast, its pretty funny, lives up to repeated viewings (for me anyway)
Disadvantages: If you don't like Jim Carrey in his comedy roles, your not going to enjoy this

...- Story - Bruce Nolan is a local TV reporter who wants to be a serious newsreader but ends up being asked to report on the most silly local news stories instead, which lead to him being made fun of. He resents this and although he has a job and has the love of a pretty girlfriend, Grace, he still feels hard done by and after a particularly frustrating days work, he shouts out to God in a fit of rage which leads to God getting in contact with him ...
...God himself. What will Bruce do with these powers and what does this teach him? how will Grace react to the newly empowered Bruce? you'll have to watch the movie to find out. - Thoughts & Opinions - Who hasn't seen this movie? to be honest, this is one of those movies that I feel like most everyone must have seen, at least in part, at some point in the last few years but incase you haven't, well, here's my review anyway, since I caught most of the ...

IzzyS 28.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Bruce Almighty (DVD)

Married with Children

Advantages: Superb indie film
Disadvantages: Little known

...Web and the absurdity of modern art also leek into the narrative point making, quipping that with the wonder of the internet and all its possibilities to bring us together, all we talk about is sex. Please don’t get me going on installation art! Summary: Americas middle belly. ...

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Review of Me And You And Everyone We Know (DVD)

Ohh Betty !!

Advantages: Wonderful Frank will make you smile
Disadvantages: Nothing

Some mothers do ave em – Series 3 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 ...
...“ 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 27.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em - The Complete Third Series (DVD)

OOH Mrs Slocombe !!

Advantages: Will raise atitter
Disadvantages: A bit dated.

ARE YOU BEING SERVED? = Written by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft Setting: ~~~~~~ Grace Brothers Store - Men and Womens Department. A fictional London based store and ran by the original dirty old man, Mr Grace played by Harold Bennett. He was perpetually surrounded by buxom, mini skirted, air headed women who constantly threatened to give him a heart attack. Usually by bending over and showing a little too much leg or flashing ...
...about, Hilarious. When ever asked are you free? He would answer with his catch phrase “I’m Free” Mollie Sugden as Mrs Slocombe Again of unknown age but roughly 65, she became famous or should that be infamous for constantly referring to her “Pussy”. Her pussy of course being her cat ‘Tiddles’ however when she came out with one liners such as ‘My pussy got soaking wet and I had to dry it out in front of the fire’. ‘The central heating broke down ...

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Review of Are You Being Served - Series 8 (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)