Saving Grace (DVD)

Advantages: So funny!! Martin Clunes is in it and he's funny
Disadvantages: Drug use can seem too lax

...**What It's About** Saving Grace is exactly what the title says the film is about; saving Grace (Brenda Blethyn), a middle aged widow whose passion is gardening and whose husband has just died and left her in thousands and thousands of pounds worth of debt. Due to failed business plans and mortgaging and re-mortgaging their home, Grace is desperate. And just to add salt to the wound, her husband's mistress turns up at the funeral but she ends up ...
...lovely sexy gardener, Matthew played by Craig Ferguson is forced out of his job because she can't afford to pay him so it seems like Matthew and Grace are in dire straights because without any money, Grace's house will be repossessed and without a job Matthew will have to move back to Glasgow and take his unhappy fisher girlfriend with him. That is of course until Matthew's little drug habit conjures up a masterful plan for the pair of them to become ... Read review

Advantages: British Humour at its best.
Disadvantages: none

...lot to do with her saving her home, plants that are of a somewhat illegal nature. The interaction of village people, the village priest, doctor, and bobby are so funny, you have to see this film to appreciate it. A gentle film that brings British comedy into modern living in a way that makes me think of all things British. Do watch this movie. The actual price I paid was eight pounts from E'bay on DVD, but it was the best eight pounds that I have ...
...is French and therefore does not have the normal age ratings, but I would suggest that you view your copy and decide who it is suitable for. My guess would be that it would be an 18. This is the kind of film to invite friends to watch, to enjoy an evening of entertainment that you will not forget in a hurry. British made, British humour, and somehow the gentility that the British seem to retain is shown by Brenda Blethyn's innocense and naivity. ... Read review

Advantages: Wasted Old Ladies
Disadvantages: Lacks some sort of je ne sais quoi

The plot: Blethyn's husband dies and leaves her with huge debts. She collaborates with the gardener, and the two of them hatch a smokin' plot to rescue her house and lifestyle from the ruthless debt collectors. The confusion: I found it really difficult to get into the story as I was distracted by the confusion as to where the is set. The ecletic mix of Irish, Scottish, London and Cornish accents are totally confusing. And that's just when the actors ...
...French doing her "How err yooy" Irish accent on more than one occasion. The laughs: However, the story does deserve some credit -particularly for its originality. The comedy element is ther as well. Brenda Blethyn does a great job, as the rich housewife turned drugs criminal, and Martin Clunes provides the requisite drunken slapstick laughs. You'll love the scene with the two old newsagent ladies who get the giggles after becoming passively stoned. ... Read review

Advantages: Refreshingly unbiased and quite amusing
Disadvantages: Naive

When her husband dies, formerly well-to-do Grace finds out that not only was he a crook but that he has also left her penniless and with massive debts. With eviction looming, she is at a loss about what to do until her pot-smoking gardener, Matthew, suggests that she puts her gardening skills to good use by growing and selling copious amounts of marijuana. The inhabitants of this sleepy Cornish village soon feel the effects. What's refreshing about ...
...choose to enjoy the effects of "de 'erb". Only Matthew's girlfriend Nicky raises any objection to his being involved in the scheme, and only then because she is pregnant and fears that he will be arrested. The authority figures are portrayed as either kind-hearted, understanding types or just incompetent. Much of the film, like Grace herself, comes across as either quaint or just naive. In particular, the scenes of unsuspecting villagers getting ... Read review

Advantages: Vert funny, well acted, gorgeous scenery
Disadvantages: none

This film is a delight to watch. From the opening sequences to the end you are simply rivetted to this hillarious story, which is beautifully filmed and features tremendous actors. Starring the talented Brenda Blethyn, gorgeous Craig Ferguson and dopey Martin Clunes as the druggie GP ?!?!? Left impoverished by her swine of a husband, widow Grace, because of her financial straights and with help from her laconic gardener decides to start growing canabis. ...
...when they try to rig up a generator for the lights in the greenhouse and every night the greenhouse lit up whole countryside, When Grace goes down to London and walks the streets stopping likely looking people trying to find a dealer to buy the stuff they have harvested, or When the two little old shop ladies take a plant, thinking it's tea and end up stoned. Really funny. I won't give any of the plot away - you have GOT to see the film, needless ... Read review

Advantages: Gives a twist to zombie genre
Disadvantages: Not enough gone into it

...changes he becomes more like the 'Brothers'. The Brotherhood of Ozone is a new and potentially world changing sect and Eddie finds himself at its heart. ~Opinions~ ************* I normally avoid zombie movies like the plague, no pun intended, except 'Shaun of the Dead' of course. However this one has a cracking Sci-Fi twist that puts a new spin on the whole genre. The special effects are not that special and the zombie make up is poor. There is next to no background of the main characters and they just 'get on with it' right from the start of the film. The story trundles along at a good pace which is its saving grace. The ending is poor as though the director wanted it all over, it just ends too quickly. ~DVD Features~ ****************** Includes 2 commentaries on the movie. An option of narration on/off The obligatory... Read review

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Advantages: CKY
Disadvantages: ...terrible editting

...As much as I love CKY I must confess this was a huge let down. After watching CKY2K and Haggard, I had such high hopes for this. People kept telling me it was god awful, I just wish I'd listened.. The DVD contains CKY vol1 and CKY documentary, which is the only saving grace to such a dire product. What you get when you buy this product is a poorly cut and chopped version of Vol 1 almost as if Bam was riding the wave of publicity from his Tony Hawk 3 inclusion and realised he could flog anything with CKY labelled on the front. You get what seems to have been editted by a 4 year old child on the main "video" with the CKY crew doing their normal thing, intersected with 1/2 skethches before ending the previous one. Though as has been said, the documentary saves this from being a total failure. It's an absolutely hilarious extra... Read review

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Advantages: Hmm, some acting was okay
Disadvantages: Pretty much everything

...and keep my mind in some sense of anticipation, as opposed to subjecting it to the disappointment that this poor 2004 sequel did. I cannot recommend Species III to anyone. The only saving grace is that I caught it on TV, and didn't actually waste any money on buying it on DVD. However, if you did want to, it is available from amazon.co.uk for £5.67.... Read review

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