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The Adventures of Barry McKenzie: (1972) Great little Australian comedy that was the biggest hit of it’s day Down Under and 15 years later was dumbed-down, sanitized and reworked as Crocodile Dundee. Beer swilling, foul-mouthed, but a heeluva nice guy Barry McKenzie (Barry Crocker) must travel to England to collect his inheritance. Chasin’ shelahs, suckin’ down Fosters and getting ripped off by pommy bastards is a day in the life, as is falling in with a hippy folk band who want to exploit him for his “authentic” drinking songs (which are pretty funny), a couple of old English whack jobs (Dennis Price in another hilariously twisted, pervy role) who want him to marry their homely daughter, a cop who thinks Barry’s a drag queen, a TV show that catches on fire and Barry and his mates from down under have to chug Fosters and piss out the fire, and more. Damn funny and a refreshing change from Hollywood’s formulaic crap (Barry not only doesn’t get the girl, but the girl turns out to be a lesbian!) with a host of cool cameos including Spike Milligan and Peter Cook. [B] |
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Airbag: (1997) Another twisted Spanish gem! When a young lawyer reluctantly goes to a brothel with his amigos for one last fling before marriage, he manages to lose his $30,000,000 engagement ring in a hooker's ass. It is subsequently found by her boss who takes off on a trip to swap a large amount of cocaine for a busload of new girls. On their quest to get the ring back the three friends are mistaken for hitmen, covered in cocaine, harassed by the cops, shot at, hexed and that's the short list! Very stylish with a jet-black sense of humor and lots of really bizarre characters, director Juanma Bajo Ulloa takes his place next to Alex de la Iglacia as Spain's leading producer of dark tongue-in-cheek cinema. Letterboxed in Spanish with English subs. [B] |
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Asterix & Obelix Versus Caesar: (1999) Highly entertaining big screen adaptation of the famous European comics starring Christian Clavier (Asterix), Gerard Depardieu (Obelix) and Roberto Benini. When Caesar finds out that a little village of Gauls has been stiffing the Imperial tax coffers, he decides to put a stop to it. Unfortunately for him it's easier said than done as the Gauls have a magic potion that makes them temporarily invulnerable and able to punch Roman soldiers 100 feet in the air. To make matters worse his right-hand man Destructivus (Begnini) learns of the potion and decides he wants to use it to make himself Caesar. Great production design with lots of special effects and enough silliness to keep you entertained. In French with English subtitles. [B] |
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Attack the Gas Station: (2000) Once again Korea shows that it is the country to beat for cutting edge genre cinema - be it horror, action or in this case, comedy! Four young punks with nothing better to do decide to rob the same gas station that they robbed the night before. The only problem is the owner decided to hide all the cash. Since they four miscreants think there is no cash, they decide to stick around and pretend to be gas station attendants and pocketing the money that customers give them - although some of the more ornery customers end up locked in trunks. A seemingly simple plan that no end of hostile delivery boys, gangsters, cops and trendy geeks can put a stop to. Hilarious stuff with lots of action, a great game of strip-syllable matching (you have to see it. "Fist on or clothes off?"), anarchic mayhem and bursting with style. Includes trailers and a making of (all in Korean). Letterboxed in Korean with English subtitles. [B] |
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Barry McKenzie Holds His Own: (1974) Finally! The near impossible to find sequel to The Adventures of Barry McKenzie! Incredibly politically incorrect and sexist, this side-splitting sequel will probably never get a re-release and would certainly never be made today. Barry and Auntie Edna head out to France (on Frogair) when Edna is kidnapped by the evil Count Erich von Plasma (Donald Pleasance hamming it up to levels heretofore unknown to man), who believes her to be the Queen incognito. His plan is to use her to attract tourists to his fascist state in Transylvania. Naturally Barry must slog through Pommy bastards and Frogs to get her back. Yeah, the plot is a bit weird, but damn, Barry is funny. While on Frogair, Barry tries to get the beret wearing hostess to bring him a cold ale: "I'm that thirsty that I could drink out of a Japanese wrestler's jockstrap!", to which Edna chastises him "Barry don't make such crude remarks about our dear little stunted, slant-eyed, yellow friends!" Oh, yeah, it brings a tear to my eye. Much Foster's is consumed and more crude jokes about pommys, poofters, froggies, chinamen, shelahs, coppers, and err, vampires all while making fun of Australians' image of being the rednecks of downunder. Classic stuff. [B] |
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Blister: (1999) Quirky, low-budget Japanese film about the lives of collectors and sci-fi and anime geeks. In the future people will kill for the key to a machine that resides in the Earths core. In the present a collector of American action figures searches for the ever elusive Hellbanker. A figure of legend among collectors that is somehow tied in with a scientist that develops a new bomb and an old man who’s fingers have been handed down through the generations. Comedy, drama and sci-fi all in one. Stay tuned during the credits for some interviews with Japanese collectors and a few Americans. Includes trailer and making of (neither of which are subbed) Widescreen, in Japanese and quite a bit of English with English subtitles. [B] |
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Bottom Live: (1993) Absolutely fucking hilarious live version of Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson’s ever popular TV show, Bottom. Filmed live in South Hampton, with an admittedly thin plot, Richie and Eddie, unrestrained by TV censors try and live life to it’s fullest. Complete with a diet of vitriol, mutually inflicted wounds, booze and rotting food. Richie orders an inflatable love doll and Eddie leaves the super glue in the hand-cream jar. And when Richie receives what appears to be a windfall from a dead uncle, who better to goad him into suicide than his best friend Eddie? Not a very good description, but this is probably even better than the TV show was. [B] |
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Bottom Live 2 – The Big Number Two Tour: (1995) The second excessively rude and uncensored live show from Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson! This time the queen is scheduled to come by the flat – well, walk down the street next to the building they live in - and the boys know just how to make her welcome: a giant banner saying “God Save the Quim” and several pounds of simtex with the Union Jack sticking out of it. For some reason this doesn’t go over so well and it lands them in the slam where only Richie’s gastro-intestinal wiffery can save the day! Whether you’ve seen the series or not, these live shows are a must! [B] |
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Bottom Live 3 – Hooligan’s Island: (1997) Another sold out live tour for Rik and Ade! This time Richie and Eddy find themselves marooned, marooned, maroo – I wish I had a thesaurus – on a small desert island. So small in fact, that it could fit perfectly on a theatrical stage in Bristol… Hmmmm. Will the boys make a raft and escape? Or find a radio in the Japanese WWII bunker? Nope. But they will try to eat the fish they found being sick in the latrine, fend off cannibals with projectile vomit, beat each other senseless with blunt objects and generally be rude, crass and puerile. Not the best of Rik and Ade's outings. [B] |
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Carry on Columbus: (1992) Phew! Ok, no lie, this is a groan inducing attempt to resurrect the “Carry on” franchise complete with more bad jokes than a Jackie Martling CD. Still, on the other hand it does have a fantastic cast with a whole slew of cool British comic actors and a couple of Americans including Jim Dale, Bernard Cribbins, Peter Richardson, Alexei Sayle, Rik Mayall, Keith Allen, Jon Pertwee, Nigel Planer, Larry Miller, Burt Kwouk, Tony Slattery, Martin Clunes, Charles Fleischer and more! Plot? Oh, yeah. Columbus (Dale) and his brother (Richardson) manage to talk the Queen of Spain (June Whitfield of AbFab) into funding an expedition for looting and pillaging in the West Indies, while the Sultan (Mayall) sends out spies to foil those plans. Silly as hell, but again, it’s fun to see the cast. [B] |
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Comedy Greats - Peter Cook & Dudley Moore: (1990) Great tribute to two comic geniuses and their landmark '60s TV show Not Only But Also, with an introduction by Cook and Moore. Included here is a collection of the best of the show (or really what was found after the BBC cleaned house and destroyed almost all of the episodes) including the famous Pete and Dud sketches in which a pair of none-too-bright schmoes discuss how they have to constantly reject beautiful film stars, the merits of art or the lack there of, the mating habits of zoo animals and more (Dudley Moore has a particularly hard time keeping a straight face when Cook goes off on tangents). Over 90 minutes of vintage stuff including the order of leaping nuns, Ludwig Van Beethoven's TV show, Superthundersting Car is Go! - a hilarious spoof of Thunderbirds Are Go!, and many others. Great stuff. [B] |
Comic Relief Live – The Utterly Rude Video: (1986) Uncensored version of the hilarious British Comic Relief show with all the comedy and only a couple musical numbers. Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are two girls discussing sex and the amount of towels needed; Rowan Atkinson is a priest, who embellishes his readings from the bible, a schoolmaster in charge of boys with lewd names and an American lounge singer who has a cheesy duet with Kate Bush; Stephen Fry as a merchant banker who tries to get his head around the concept of a “donation”; Billy Connolly discusses the insanity of Australia; Ben Elton does his stand-up which is predictably about erections; and best of all Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planner and Christopher Ryan show up as The Young Ones (this is ’86 after all) and even do a number with Bob Gledoff (Vivian’s favorite Irish joke). [B] |
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Comic Strip Presents – The Bullshitters / The Yob: (1988 / 198?) The Bullshitters: Funny send up of the popular Brit cop show The Professionals. Bonehead (Keith Allen) and Foyle (Peter Richardson) are the flashiest, fastest and most under-dressed detectives to be kicked out of DI5. But when the guv’nor’s (Robbie Coletrane) daughter is kidnapped the duo are called back in. With a Magnum in one hand and a bus pass in the other, The Bullshitters set out to track down the perps and get some good close-ups. The Yob: When the personalities of a pretentious video director and the ultimate yob are accidentally crossed in an experimental cerebral teleportation machine, the scientist responsible (Ade Edmondson) must find them before their alter egos take over. [B] |
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Comic Strip Presents - Funseekers / Summer School: (1988 / 1983) Two episodes from the breeding ground of great British TV comics. Each episode is really a 45 minute film with quality production values, occasional nudity and a whole slew of now famous comic actors that went on to classics like The Young Ones, Absolutely Fabulous, The Thin Blue Line, and many others. Funseekers: A whole busload of young party animals take over a small Spanish town for holiday with only one thing on their minds - drinking and shagging! Ok, well, that's two things, really. Only one catch one of their members is over 30! The bastard! Stars Peter Richardson and Nigel Planner (in another one of his chameleon-like characters). Summer School: The local college holds a summer long anthropology course where a group of students live like cavemen and must come to grips with foraging for themselves and not raiding the cafeteria. Standout moments are the gravely serious Robbie Coltrane creating a mud statue of his penis and Rik Mayall deciding that any students that wander into the site should be attacked and killed. Also stars Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planner, Jennifer Sanders, Dawn French and Peter Richardson. [B] |
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Comic Strip Presents - Didn't You Kill My Brother / Private Enterprise: (1995 / 1985) Two more episodes of bizarre comedy. Didn't You Kill My Brother: Alexei Sayle plays a dual role as psychotic criminal twins, one of whom just got out of jail and wants to create instead of destroy. The other is quite happy as a criminal thug who dotes on his equally psychotic mother (who believes that there's nothing better for a head wound than a dead badger). Also stars Graham Crowden and Beryl Reid. Private Enterprise: Written and directed by Ade Edmondson. When a sticky-fingered ex-con (Peter Richardson) kypes a demo of a awful pop band he decides to pretend to be a manager and sell the demo to the record company and make lots of illicit cash. Things get a bit more complicated when the single becomes a hit and the record company wants to book the band on tours. To get out of it, the manager and his equally delinquent brother (Ade Edmondson) decide to bomb the venues. Also stars Nigel Planner, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French. [B] |
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Comic Strip Presents – A Fistful of Travelers Cheques / Gino: (1984) Two classic bits of Comic Strip with all the favorites. A Fistful of Travelers Cheques: Funny satire of Leone spaghetti westerns and road movies. Carlos (Rik Mayall in classic black Lee van Cleef garb) and Miguel (Peter Richardson) are two wandering gunslingers who check into the Hotel Bastardos and find out that the hotel manager (Keith Allen) is more of a bastard than they are. In an attempt to find The Man with No Name they run across a psychotic matador (Ade Edmondson), a couple of irritated Aussies (Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders) who are desperately trying to shake a hippy freeloader (Nigel Planner). Gino: When it seems the whole world is out to get him, Gino (Keith Allen) runs afoul of armed milkmen, diseased cabbies, murderous housewives, verbally abusive cripples and the media, who thinks he is trying to subvert the government. And only because he stole a few cabs and got framed for murder! After meeting a disillusioned secretary (Jennifer Saunders), they decide that crime does pay. Also stars Robbie Coltrane and Rik Mayall. [B] |
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Comic Strip Presents – Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door / Dirty Movie: (1987/1984) Two top-shelf episodes! Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door: When a pair of sleazy, filthy, alcohol obsessed “escorts” (Ric Mayall and Ade Edmondson) accidentally spend 3000 quid on gin instead of giving it to Fluffy Toy Manufacturer and assumed competition, Mr. Jolly (Peter Cook), to take out Nicholas Parsons. What they do not realize is that Mr. Jolly is in fact a contract killer who was supposed to “take out” Parsons for the local mob boss Mr. Lovebucket (Peter Richardson), who is none too pleased. An amazingly over-the-top entry that was a warm-up for Mayall and Edmondson’s Filthy Rich and Bottom characters Richie and Eddy. Dirty Movie: A sleazy and quite irritable cinema owner (Ric Mayall) gets a dirty movie in the mail from a none-too-bright postman (Ade Edmondson) and plans on showing it in the morning so that he will be the only one in the cinema. Unfortunately for him, his ditzy wife (Jennifer Saunders) won’t stay locked up, the postman wants to see the early show, the police (Robbie Coltrane, Nigel Planner and Peter Richardson) want to bust him and the traffic warden (Dawn French) who stars in the film is giving him a ticket! [B] |
Comic Strip Presents - The Slags / Eddie Monsoon: (1984) The Slags: Probably the most ambitious, big budgeted Comic Strip episode ever. In a dystopian future that echoes Blade Runner and Escape From New York the city is ruled by the violent gang The Slags, headed up by Passion and Little Sister (Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders). When the Slag sisters get out of the slam, they find that their turf has been taken over by the loathsomely healthy Hawaiians, who have turned the city into a bright, sunny and festive place where everyone is ala Blue Hawaii. Now they must get the gang back together and beat these disgustingly nice usurpers. Also stars Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planner and Peter Richardson with Emma Thompson in a great cameo. Eddie Monsoon - A Life?: Another one of Adrian Edmondson's warm-ups for Bottom, this one has Edmondson playing a drunken, drug-addled, animal abusing, child-hater who has one disastrous TV show after another. His morning kiddie show in Africa ends in violence, his first British show is cancelled due to animal cruelty, obscenity, violence and child...err, abuse. Now the story of his life can be told, complete with abusive nurse (Dawn French), not-so-estranged wife (Jennifer Saunders) and shady business manager of 17 minutes (Peter Richardson). [B] |
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Comic Strip Presents – Strike / GLC: (1988/1990) Strike: Alexei Sayle stars as a small town, working class bloke who writes a screenplay based on a real life mining strike. After it gets into the hands of a sleazy American producer (Robbie Coltrane), it's suddenly a violent and contrived bid at Oscar glory starring Pacino (Peter Richardson) and Streep (Jennifer Saunders). In the end our shamed writer makes a joke about the next film being about the GLC starring Charles Bronson. Also stars Ade Edmondson, Dawn French, Nigel Planner, Rik Mayall, etc. GLC: A hack cinematic version of the GLC (a bit of British political history which, to be honest, I am completely ignorant of) starring Charles Bronson (Robbie Coltrane) as Kenneth Livingston, a "commie" who wants what is good for the people and all of that horrible stuff. Cher (Dawn French - !?) plays the love interest and Lee Van Cleef (Peter Richardson) as Tony Benn. Also stars Jennifer Saunders and Ade Edmondson in an amusing performance as the Prince of Wales. [B] |
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Comic Strip Presents - Susie / Consuela: (1984) All of the early cast of The Comic Strip are featured in these two warped tales. Susie: Dawn French plays the title character of this send-up of the art-house film, a school teacher who teaches her class of six-year-olds that polygamy is not necessarily a bad thing if it means mommy gets two daddies. While ignoring her wimpy husband (Ade Edmondson) and having an affair with a mechanic (Nigel Planner), a pop star (Peter Richardson) buys a manor and attracts the eye of the wanton wench. Also stars Robbie Coltrane. Consuela: Basically a send up of Hitchcock's Rebecca, Jennifer Sanders plays the new wife of an uppercrust yutz (Ade Edmondson) who finds herself dominated and driven insane by the servant woman Consuela (Dawn French). Lots of little Hichcock references along the way. Also stars Rik Mayall in an amazingly subdued performance. [B] |
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The Dangerous Brothers: (1985) Welcome to the Dangerous Brothers' World of Danger! This is the complete collection of segments from the British sketch comedy show Saturday Live (which is suspiciously like the American show Saturday Night Live) starring Ric Mayall and Ade Edmondson as the Dangerous Brothers! Each week, or in this case episode, has the Dangerous Brothers doing dangerous things, mainly Ritchie (Mayall) doing horribly cruel things to Sir Adrian (Edmondson) like throwing him off of a building, setting him on fire, shooting him out of a cannon, shooting him in the head with a revolver, putting his hand in a blender and such, all the while completely screwing up the show. One of the best has them posing as baby sitters and completely demolishing a house while trying to fix a coffee table that they have accidentally broken. Includes the previously banned sketch Kinky Sex and appearances by Jennifer Sanders, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. [B] |
Days of Being Dumb: (1992) Jackie Cheung and Tony Leung star in this often very funny (and very silly) spoof of Triad pictures. Cheung and Leung play a pair of total idiots who've been friends from childhood and decide that they want to be cool triad gangsters like in the movies. Unfortunately, every boss they work for gets killed (usually due to their incompetence or cowardice) and they become known as the jinx of the triads. The humor runs the gamut from typical loud, goofy HK stuff to slightly more sophisticated in-jokes. The scene in which they swagger around shirtless, after drawing tattoos on themselves with markers is absolutely priceless. Stay tuned during the credits, too. Widescreen in Chinese with English subtitles. |
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Derek & Clive Get the Horn: (1980) Amazingly crass live filming of the recording of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's Derek & Clive Ad Nauseum album, directed by none other than Russell Mulcahey who would later go on to direct classics like Razorback and Highlander. Made at the end of Cook and Moore's partnership this is not the squeaky clean comedy of old, but a stunningly profane and drunken tirade against all that is generally nice and politically correct. The mostly ad-libbed string of comic bits are funny enough, but better still are the great moments of actual lunacy between segments that most directors would have cut out, but here are left in. Moore is given a blow-up doll and decides to name it "Mummy" while later Cook decides to smack it around and perform a sadistic interrogation on it. A police raid is conducted after they were tipped that drugs were in the studio and even a stripper drops in to suffer Cooks abuse. This film has enough foul language in it to make sailors blush and it is a particularly good companion piece to Dying of Laughter as the mutual venom and bitterness the two feel is barely contained and bursts through the already ugly façade. [B] |
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The Diamond Peddlers (1975) One of two (or more) Jewish-themed, blatant Hill & Spencer rip-offs starring Michael Colby and Paul L. Smith as a pair of mismatched goofs named Simon and Matthew. When the boys escape from prison, they accidentally wind-up in the shoes of two missing missionaries and decide it's a good way to hide from the cops. They are then dispatched to Holland with a statue of the Madonna that is, unbeknownst to them, encrusted with Mafia diamonds. Naturally the mob wants the statue back and much slapstick humor and bad Yiddish accents / jokes ensue. Hill & Spencer fans will want to see this just to check out what the real boys inspired. In English with Greek subtitles. [B] |
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Dying of Laughter: (1999) A.k.a. Muertos de Risa. Spanish cinematic genius Alex de la Iglacia returns to form with this dark, twisted and hilarious tale of two comics who make millions laugh, but deeply hate each other. Set in Franco era Spain, a chubby cover singer accidentally kills the militia's mascot goat causing the nightclub to be burnt to the ground. He takes off with the bartender to try and strike it rich in show business and both end up celebrities. Then it gets ugly. After years of mutual jealousy both descend into madness, playing sadistic practical jokes and fucking each other over (one's mother dies when finding the cat accidentally trapped in the freezer after it attacked the other). Excellently directed with loads of the old de la Iglacia style, this one is impossible to describe in a small review. Mean, funny as hell and occasionally surreal, this makes me want to forgive Alex for Perdita Durango. Widescreen, in Spanish with English subtitles. Includes the making of, a trailer, interviews with de la Iglacia and the two leads and a music video (all extras are sans subs). [B] |
Fight Back to School: (1991) Remember Hiding Out? Remember how much it sucked? Well, if it had been Asian, if it had been funny and if it starred a certifiable comic genius (instead of Jon Cryer) you'd get this extremely funny Steven Chow spoof. Chow is a SWAT team commando who can't make the grade and is sent back to high school to find a security officer's stolen pistol. Very funny stuff with no small amount of violence thrown in for good measure. For all of you who haven't seen a Steven Chow film (or haven't seen a good one) you don't know what you are missing. Widescreen in Chinese with English subtitles. [B] |
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Fight Back to School 3: (1993) Only marginally related to either of the previous films, this Steven Chow spoof of Basic Instinct is not his best but has some funny moments. Chow takes on an undercover assignment to find the killer of a rich man, who happens to look just like him. Anita Mui plays the Sharon Stone role as the main suspect and Anthony Wong turns up as a weird, hipster who likes to wear a dead animal for a toupee. Lots of toilet humor (the accidental drinking of semen samples and such), directed by Wong Jing, of course. Widescreen in Chinese with English subtitles. |
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Filthy Rich and Catflap vol. 1: (1993) The first three episodes of this strange and twisted Beeb series written by Ben Elton and starring The Young Ones alumni Ric Mayall, Ade Edmondson and Nigel Planner. Richie (Mayall) is a talentless comedian who thinks he is a beloved celebrity, while he lives in squalor with his chum, a foul smelling rummy, Eddie (Edmondson). His agent, Ralph Filthy (Planner) who also runs the local brothel, is near death but still manages to book Richie into a gig if there is someone stupid enough to ask for him. Episode One: Richie in a fit of pique seems to have offed one too many milkmen (or as Filthy says, "One you could just laugh off, but two…"). As if that wasn't bad enough some 17 year old chick is nailing Richie with a paternity suit, which is odd as Richie's love truncheon has been used less than Eddie's deodorant! Episode Two: After indulging himself in his "four tissue fantasy" by sneaking into the dressing room of a famous female pop quartet, he finds himself being blackmailed! In a desperate attempt to drum up some cash they decide to kill Filthy, who calmly calls up a guy with a chainsaw to take care of things. When Eddie sells a pile of vomit for 1000 quid (to Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie), they might be out of the dark. Episode Three: Richie has decided to have a dinner party for his show-biz friends, even though Eddie is painfully aware that this means the man from the porno shop and Wino Bill. Problem is, Richie's in the clink with Eddie who got arrested with frozen chickens in his pants. [B] |
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Filthy Rich & Catflap vol. 2: (1993) Second and final volume of this whacked out Ade Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planner series. Episode 4: When Ritchie finds out his old dad is about to snuff it, Filthy figures out a plan to make mucho mazola off the old geezer's demise. The only fly in the ointment is that it appears the old bastard might make a recovery! How inconsiderate! So it's off to find someone to kill dad - even if it means propositioning men in a gay bar. Episode 5: Filthy has managed to nail down a gig for Ritchie, the only problem is that it starts at 4 in the AM and worse - he has to show up sober! Not a chance in hell. Ritchie and Eddie's drunken TV escapade manages to lead to Fithy's execution by hanging. Episode 6: Forced to give up showbiz, they must resort to the lowest form of life - journalism! While trying to make good by faking a communistic, sexual liaison between Thatcher and pop star Midge Ure (Bob Geldoff was unavailable), they find a way to make Ritchie the only celeb on TV. Plus Ade Edmondson trashes the sets, seeing as it's the last show and all. [B] |
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City Cop:
(1996) Often hilarious Steven Chow send up of HK's popular flying-swordsman
films with a touch of James Bond thrown in for good measure. Chow plays a
special secret agent to the Emperor, and while the other agents know kung-fu and
mystical powers, Chow creates weird inventions to do battle with evil. As usual
with Chow films the comedy ranges the spectrum from just plain juvenile to
brilliant wit with in-jokes poking fun at everything from 007 to the Roswell
alien autopsy. Impossible to describe, but suffice it to say no HK fan should
miss out on the Steven Chow experience. Widescreen
in Chinese with English subtitles. [B] |
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The Foul King: (2000) Great Korean comedy about a meek bank-clerk who suffers from verbal and physical attacks from his boss, father and even his friends treat him like crap. Finally he decides to pursue his lifelong ambition to be a masked wrestler and becomes The Foul King, a cheating heel that uses forks, powder, shoes and whatever else is handy to assault his opponent. Some very funny bits including one where he accidentally uses a real fork instead of a prop, causing an arc of crimson to spray out of his opponents forehead - much to his shock and the delight of the audience. Slickly directed with lots of flair and some great wrestling action! Widescreen in Korean with English subtitles. Includes trailer. [B] |
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Ghostly Vixen: (1990) Silly HK spoof of Chinese Ghost Story with some genuinely funny pokes at Highlander and Ghostbusters as well. Shing Fui-On (in an amazing reversal of typecasting) plays a tough-looking, but nice, ghost chaser who, dressed in leather and chains and wielding a big sword, takes after the busty Amy Yip who is a ghost who must suck 100 virgin, err… souls to become eternal. Some extremely bad comedy in between Fui-On's scenes, but then again, his scenes are hilarious. Widescreen in Chinese with English subtitles. |
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Glam Metal Detectives: (1995) This is the first three episodes of Peter Richardson’s follow-up to the incredibly successful Comic Strip series. Basically episodic sketch comedy (though none of it live) parodying TV shows. Glam Metal Detectives is a Mission Impossible send-up with the members of a pop-rock band and their savvy manager attempting to thwart the evil plots of an insane media mogul and save the planet with record sales and a high-tech motor-home. Betty’s Mad Dash: A spoof of 20’s crime flicks, this has two flapper girls on the lamb from the law. Colin Corleone: A low-class schmuck who thinks he’s the Godfather, complete with his two henchmen who hum the movie theme where ever he goes. Bloodsports: A TV show that sets-up and evaluates drunken brawls and criminal activity. Plus a whole host of other TV spoofs including commercials, talk shows, soap operas and more. [B] |
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Guest House Paradiso: (1999) The great Rik Mayall and Ade Edmonson (who also directs) reprise their roles from Bottom on the big screen in this unapologetically surreal, violent and venomous comedy that will either leave you with your jaw on the floor or your sides splitting. Ritchie Twat (it's pronounced "Thwait") and Eddie Hitler run a shabby hotel that just happens to be next to a nuclear power plant. While trying to connive the guests out of their valuables, an Italian honey decides that their hotel is the perfect place to lay low from the paparazzi and her jilted would-be hubby (Vincent Cassel of Dobermann). Ritchie and Eddy, of course, think that she wants them naked. This flick is so over-the-top, nasty and vicious that Farrelli brothers would be shocked and disgusted! The ending sequence alone in which the hotel guests are violently ill after eating contaminated fish is about as wet as the finale of Braindead and far more disgusting. Letterboxed presentation with an extensive 30 minute "making of", "arse ups" and outtakes and three trailers! Awesome. [B] |
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Harry Enfield's Television Programme - Best of Series 1: (1990) This is a collection of the best sketches from the very popular (well, in the UK, anyway) Harry Enfield who was vastly under appreciated in the first season of Men Behaving Badly. Features Radio Fab: with Smashie and Nicey, two stuck in the '70s DJs who spend a lot of time talking about their charity work, that they don't like to talk about; Tim Nice-But-Dim: An upper-crust idiot who thinks that being a podiatrist is something to be ashamed of. Mr. Don't Wanna-Do-That: A well meaning but insufferable old codger who tells everyone what they want to do no matter how much destruction it causes. The Old Farts: A couple of insufferable old codgers that decide that instead of spending their kids inheritance, they should buy a race horse and shoot it, or just burn the money altogether. The Slobs: British white trash who decide their baby should be called something exotic like Frogmella. [B] |
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The Hound of the Baskervilles: (1978) Letterboxed print of Paul Morrissey's send-up of Sherlock Holmes starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore as Holmes and Watson. When Holmes is called upon by the executor (Terry-Thomas) of the Baskerville estate to solve the heinous crime of the curse, he passes it on to Watson. Great cast includes Prunella Scales as a psychotic who's head spins 360 degrees as she spews green vomit, Denholm Elliot as a keeper of incontinent dogs, Hugh Griffith as a man obsessed with hunting the hound, Spike Milligan as a rather confused constable and more. Particularly entertaining is the classic bit in which Holmes advertises a position for a "runner-of-errands" to which the only applicant is a one legged man. [B] |
How to be a Little Sod: (1995) Rik Mayall stars as the voice of a pissed-off tyke in this British comedy series. Mayall is the voice and narrator of an infant (both live-action and animated) in what is essentially a guide on how to keep those fumbling parents in line and teach them who’s boss. Each short episode covers a different area of expertise: exactly when and how to vomit or poop, how to destroy a grocery store, blame stuff on the cat, drive your parents nuts by faking illness and other tricks of the diaper trade. Also stars Steve O’ Donnell (Spudgun of Bottom fame) who is almost completely unrecognizable as the father of the little sod. [B] |
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The Humanist: (1999) Severely dark, twisted black comedy from Korea. When a trio of completely sociopathic young men accidentally kill a cop, they find themselves being blackmailed by another cop. In order to get the money to pay the blackmail, one decides to kidnap his rich father and hold him for ransom. What could go wrong? Instead of the father, the idiot friends end up accidentally kidnapping the guy who the mother is having an affair with. Add to that, they were witnessed by a nun and she’s got to be rubbed out too. But first, since she is good looking, why not rape her? Sick, bloody and very funny (in a twisted, psychotic kinda way) this warped exercise in jet-black humor boasts loads of visual style and plenty of familiar faces (Sang-Myeon Park of Libera Me, The Foul King, Nowhere to Hide, etc. and Seong-jin Kang of Attack the Gas Station). Includes trailer. Widescreen in Korean with English subtitles. [B] |
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Kevin and Perry Go Large: (2000) Widescreen, special edition version of popular British comic Harry Enfield's first feature film based on characters from his TV show Harry Enfield's Television Programme. Kevin and Perry are sex-obsessed teens who want nothing more out of life than to "do it" and become famous DJs. They decide in order to get laid, they need to go clubbing in Ibiza (Spain) but how to get the cash to go? The answer comes when Kevin foils a bank robbery by accidentally hitting the alarm with his stiffy he got from ogling the babe at the counter. Includes trailers, making of and more! [B] |
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The Kevin Turvey Collection: (1981/1982) The complete collection of Kevin Turvey Investigates and Man Behind the Green Door special! Rik Mayall is Kevin Turvey a teenage investigative journalist who investigates things and then talks about them on the BBC. Things like Death - the Grim Rapist and Sex (in which to investigate it Kevin becomes a prostitute, after securing the necessary handbag. Well, it really wasn't a handbag, but a plastic bag with the handles stretched really long. But that's not important). Kevin, ace journalist, solves the mysteries of other things as well, like why the local grocery store (a veritable Eurovision Song Contest of food, without all of the unpleasantness) has food! Also a look into Kevin's home life with Robbie Coletrane and Ade Edmondson! [B] |
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Kick the Moon: (2001) The latest action-comedy from Korean director Sang-Jin Kim who gave us the instant classic Attack the Gas Station. Two friends from opposite sides of the high school grow up to take after the other - the school nerd (Sung-jae Lee) becomes a top man in a Mafia-like organization and the school tough-guy (Sung-wan Cha) becomes a teacher. When the gangster comes back to town to take over the syndicate operations from the small time gang that currently runs it, he gets a whole mess of trouble from the small gang, his old friend, the local cops and even the sister of one of the teachers students who runs a noodle house (you can’t have a good Korean movie with out a noodle scene!). Loaded with great fight scenes, strange characters and dry humor. Widescreen in Korean with English subtitles. Includes trailer. [B] |
Lawyer, Lawyer: (1997) Very silly (but often hilarious) Steven Chow comedy about a ruthless, yet cowardly lawyer who causes more trouble than he solves. Widescreen in Chinese with English subtitles. |
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Legend of the Dragon: (1990) Very funny, though not very typical Steven Chow outing in which Chow plays Bruce Chow, son of Chow Fei Hong (Yuen Wah). Bruce is actually better at snooker than anything else and when the mob tries to take his father's land away he must shoot snooker to win it back. Also stars Teresa Mo, Cory Yuen, Shing Fui On, with cameos by Amy Yip and Jimmy "Whirlwind" White. Widescreen in Chinese with English subtitles. |
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Licensed
to Love and Kill: (1979)
Super-rare print of Lindsay Shonteff's third entry in his quad-ogy of James Bond
spoofs from England that is a must see for bad movie lovers! When secret agent
Number 1 (this time played by Gareth Hunt) decides to help a girl find her
father, he runs afoul of a plot to kill the president of the US and have an evil
dictator take over the world (or America, really). Complete with weird henchmen,
that really aren't all that strange (one just says "hi" a lot),
laughable action scenes, and a bevy of beauties that won't go to bed with our
hero. This flick is hilarious in all the ways it's not trying to be, plus
Geoffrey Keen, Mi Mi Lay and other familiar faces turn up for a paycheck and
there's plenty of nudity as well. Widescreen, in English with Greek subtitles.
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Love on Delivery: (1997) Latest Steven Chow outing has ol' Steve playing a cowardly delivery boy who takes up with a martial arts charlatan to earn the respect of a hot karate honey. This may not be Chow's best but it features some of the funniest martial arts matches ever with one in which Chow (dressed as Garfield) performs the Rolling Fire Stance to defeat a dickwad of a karate-instructor. It's a lot funnier than it probably sounds. Widescreen in Chinese with English subtitles. |
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Magnificent Scoundrels: (1991) Very funny Steven Chow outing with a great supporting cast including Yuen Wa, Cory Yuen and Amy Yip. Chow plays a con-man who falls in with HK's stupidest con-woman. While trying to rob a antique filled mansion, the owners come home and assume he's the wealthy American they have been waiting for, because they are in fact con-artists too. Yeah, it sounds silly and it is, but some of the gags are totally hilarious and the parts are played to perfection particularly Yuen Wa who plays the idiot, but deadly, brother of a loan shark who both sides are trying to scam. Widescreen in Chinese with English subtitles. |
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Men Behaving Badly - Complete Series 1: (1992) This is the complete hilarious original UK series that got turned into a wretched, foul and abhorrent short-lived series here in the US. This original series has nothing to do with Rob Schneider or anything else that was on TV here in the States! This is the complete original series where men are men, or rather over-grown boys who drink beer, smoke cigarettes and pretend to be sensitive around chicks. F'n brilliant. This series: Intruders - There's a new neighbor upstairs and Gary and Dermot are obsessed; The Bet - Gary scores some tickets to the opera only to bet them on a game of chess with Dermot, too bad Gary doesn't know how to play chess; Alarms & Setbacks - Gary decides he's going to break up with Dorothy and get together with the new neighbor Deborah, by getting what all women want… a security system for the house; Animals - Gary decides he should tell Dorothy he wants an open relationship, unfortunately she does too; Sex & Violence - Dermot figures out a way to win Deborah's heart, or at least get her pants off, but the flamenco guitarist turns out to be playing a casio, the food isn't Spanish and Deborah's ex shows up and head-butts a drunken Gary; My Brilliant Career - Dermot is out of another job and convinces Deborah to hire him as a waiter so he can hit on the customers and make everyone miserable. [B] |
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Men Behaving Badly - Complete Series 2: (1992) The second complete series. That, I repeat has nothing to do with the abortion that was shown here in the US. This one is actually funny. Very funny. This series: Tony & Gary - Gary is interviewing potential new flatmates and gets a wide variety of uhhhh, interesting types and then Tony shows up, he's not weird he just has a severed pig's head in a bag with him; Rent Boy - Gary suddenly thinks that Tony might be gay, and there is absolutely no similarity between that sort of thing and the woman's prison video nasty he wants to rent; How to Dump Your Girlfriend - Tony wants to ditch his current girl for Deborah, so Gary decides to help out without Tony's knowing… by fax; Troublesom 12" - Gary finds out that he has a collectable LP that he could get 200 quid for, the only problem is that Dorthy gave it to him as a gift; Going Nowhere - Tony has a new broken down van and Gary's gotten drunk while stuck in an elevator with a very annoyed Deborah; People Behaving Irritatingly - The water's on the fritz and Gary's obnoxious neice and her boyfriend have been eating and rutting non-stop since their arrival, but since the guys may get a free trip to Spain, they put up with it. [B] |
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Men Behaving Badly - Complete Series 3: (1994) One double tape set of the entire third season. Gary and Tony are still sharing the flat, drinking lager and trying to get into bed with just about anyone who looks good. Brilliant. Lovers: Deborah has split up with Denzil, and now Tony is sure to be in. Meanwhile, Gary is convinced he should have had more sexual partners - isn't the average 234? Bed: Dorothy can't sleep because of indigestion - probably caused by Gary's cooking. As a sign of his love (or Dorothy's threats), Gary goes in search of some Milk of Magnesia and ends up in Piccadilly Circus in the middle of the night, in his dressing gown. Maybe that wasn't such a good idea... Casualties: Deborah got canned from her job and is depressed. Gary and Tony try everything they can think of to stop her selling the flat and traveling to Asia. Unfortunately for Tony what cheers her up is a new boyfriend. Cleaning Lady: The flat is beautifully contaminated with filth, and Dorothy decides it is time Gary and Tony got a cleaning lady. However, she isn't as old and ugly as Gary claims... Weekend: Dorothy decides she and Gary are going to visit the country and discover their sexuality and exchange their fantasies, but neither of them can spell "Alsatian." Tony gets a job at Les' pub and dreams of mixing cocktails like Tom Cruise. Marriage: During a fit of drunken amour in a canle-lit restaurant Gary proposes to Dorothy and she is all up for it. Now, after the fact, Gary must figure out how to make himself even less appealing and keep himself out of wedlock. Double Tape Set. [B] |
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Men Behaving Badly - Complete Series 4: (199) A.k.a. British Men Behaving Badly. One double tape set of the whole of series four. Great stuff here as once again, it is not the American bastardization with Rob Schnider, but the actually funny show that it pathetically tried to emulate. Just incase you didn't get the point: Rob Schnider sucks, this doesn't. This season - Babies: After Gary has a nightmare about marrying a knocked-up Dorothy, he is convinced that maybe it's not such a bad idea after all, fortunately for him, Dorothy has second thoughts when she realizes that Gary would have too much in common with the baby. Infidelity: When Gary becomes suspicious of Dorothy's odd behavior, he and Tony stakeout her work and home to catch her in the act. Tony disguises himself as an urban terrorist and Gary a Mexican. Pornography: Tony's new girlfriend is completely turned off by his collection of dirty magazines. The ultimatum comes down, Tony either ditches the porn or he loses the girl. Three Girlfriends: Gary is not happy due to lack of sex. Tony is juggling three girls and to make matters more unpleasant for Gary, his dad decides to stay for a week telling every woman in sight about Gary's childhood idiocy. Drunk: When Dorothy decides to make Gary a romantic dinner, Les, the barman, suddenly has a wealth of free samples from the brewery, naturally this means the door will be locked and dinner will be in Gary's shoes. In Bed with Dorothy: Dorothy has just had her appendix out (which the hospital was kind enough to give to Gary as a souvenir) and Tony has decided to get glasses, which provides no end of amusement to everyone. Playing Away: Gary takes off on a creative writing course in the hopes of "two people rubbing their private parts together" and after Tony pulls his tooth out and has Dorothy bring over some painkillers, they accidentally wake-up together. Double Tape Set. [B] |
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Men Behaving Badly - Jingle B***s: (1999) Cool collection of damn funny bloopers and outtakes from the later seasons of MBB plus the Christmas Special. It's Christmas time and the lads and the girls are going to spend Christmas together for a change. Gary decides to make the holiday feast and get completely blotto and destroy the turkey in the process and Deb decides that it is as good a time as any to break-up with Tony. And what would Christmas be without crappy presents and a trip to the pub? [B, ½] |
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The New Statesman – Series 1: (1987) The entire first season of this great political satire starring Rik Mayall. Alan B’Stard (Mayall), a two-faced, conniving, right-wing conservative MP in Parliament, whose constituency is a small working class town (all of whom think he’s a complete bastard – including his wife and father in law). Happiness is a Warm Gun: B’Stard is elected MP by a landslide, mainly due to his two main rivals having suspicious car accidents. As his first act, he pushes through a bill allowing policemen handguns, but the real hard work is setting up an insane Chief Constable (John Woodvine) who believes The Almighty is quite literally with him, and is holding evidence that B’Stard caused the car accidents. Passport to Freedom: B’Stard’s wife is ready for a divorce since she inherited an auto plant. If she’s gone so is the MP vote, so it’s time to sabotage the auto company’s stock. Sex is Wrong: When a repressed Lady gives her manuscript detailing the horrors of sexual relations to B’Stard, he decides to publish it with some banned police file photos and make a mint. Waste Not, Want Not: After his transsexual accountant alerts B’Stard to the fact that the nuclear waste he was paid to dump is about to be discovered, where better to dump it than his own constituency? Friends of St. James: When an old school friend convinces B’Stard that he is the president of a small pot growing island in the Caribbean that has no banks, B’Stard and his accountant hatch a plan to fleece all of the members of Parliament. Three Line Whipping: Due to being caught in a raid at a brothel, B’Stard is late to a morning talk show where he is driven by a mad cabbie, whom he accidentally kills. Baa Baa Black Sheep: A bible thumping American fast food tycoon (William Hootkins) wants to build the headquarters for his lamb-burger joints right in B’Stards constituency. The only problem is figuring out how to act like a god-fearing man of moral fiber! Double Tape Set. [B] |
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Number One of the Secret Service: (1977) Rare, widescreen print of Lindsay Shonteff's second in his 007 spoof quad-ogy and precursor to Licensed to Love and Kill. Nicky Henson stars as top MI5 operative No. 1 who wields a pair of .357 Magnums with superhuman dexterity and accuracy. When an eccentric millionaire (Richard Todd) is linked to the murder of several other millionaires, it's up to No. 1 to get to the bottom of things. Starting with his lovely female partner. Protected by a transsexual bodyguard and an entire evil organization called K.R.A.S.H., this millionaire ain't going quietly. Lots of familiar faces here including Geoffrey Keen, Milton Reid, Dudley Sutton, John Pertwee, Oliver MacGreevy, etc. The master is damaged about 70 minutes into the movie, but is only intrusive for one or two scenes. [B] |
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Ooh… You are Awful!: (1972) A.k.a. Get Charlie Tulley.
British comedian Dick Emery's big screen outing in which he gets to play all of
the characters from his popular TV show. Emery plays top con artist Charlie
Tully, who along with his skirt-chasing friend Reggie Peek, scams a couple of
"connected" Italians out of half a million pounds. Unfortunately
Reggie is accidentally killed and only he knows where the loot is, and the clues
are tattooed on the bottoms of four different girls. The mafia is after the cash
and the local mob just wants to… get Charlie Tulley! Fun stuff for fans of
British comedy. Remade in 1982 in Hong Kong as Mad Mission (a.k.a. Aces
Go Places). [B] |
| Out of My Head: (1995) Rik Mayall takes you on a tour of the crazy world of drugs. Yeah, sure it's one of those kinda "educational" videos that is supposed to warn you about the dangers of street drugs, but it's actually really damn funny. Rik Mayall is a sad loser who is looking for a cheap and not terribly dangerous way to get high. Along the way we talk to a bunch of real-life losers who talk about the "horrors" of their addictions, a doctor who illustrates the medical aspects (also Mayall) and a couple of old ladies in a tea house who discuss all of these drugs and at one point huff butane out of condoms! Hilarious stuff that is way too entertaining to be shown to kids here in the States. [B] | |
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball: (1989) For the 10th anniversary of Amnesty International’s Secret Policeman’s Ball, John Cleese took it upon himself to organize, direct and of course star in this all star production! This is all of the comedy and none of the music acts, with John Cleese, Michael Palin, Robbie Coltrane, Ade Edmondson, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Ben Elton, Spitting Image, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (reunited after 17 years) and many others! Great stuff. [B] |
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The Secret Policeman's Third Ball: (1987) The third and certainly not the last of the Secret Policeman's Balls put on by Amnesty International. All sorts of British comics and musicians perform live for charity, this is only the comedy highlights of the third event here. Features appearances by Spitting Image, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, John Cleese, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Mel Smith, Ben Elton and many others! To fill out the tape, we have included the comic highlights from The Secret Policeman's Other Ball which includes classic performances by Monty Python, Rowan Atkinson and Peter Cook. Why? Because two Balls are better than one. [B] |
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60 Million Dollar Man: (1996) Steven Chow's send-up of Pulp Fiction and The Mask has Chow blown to bits by a Triad boss and then fixed up by a nutty professor to be a shape altering crime stopper... sorta. There are a couple of funny bits but most of the humor revolves around how funny you think watching him turn into giant tubes of toothpaste, talking toilets, enormous microwaves and lethal old ladies. Personally, it just makes me want to see From Beijing with Love or Out of the Dark again, but some folks think it's a winner. Widescreen in Chinese with English subtitles. [B] |
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The Supergrass: (1985) Fun British crime-comedy from the folks responsible for the Comic Strip TV series. Dennis Carter (Adrian Edmondson), a terminal moron, whips up a story about being involved in a drug-ring to impress the girl he's after (Dawn French). Unfortunately the cops think he's telling the truth and decide to use him as front man so that they can nab the big drug shipment. As it turns out there really is a big drug shipment and poor Dennis is caught in the thick of it. Good stuff with a great cast including Jennifer Saunders, Robbie Coltrane, Nigel Planer, Alexei Sayle, etc. [B] |
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The
Toxic Avenger Part II:
(1989) Complete and uncut print with all of the over-the-top gore FX that was
cut from the bloodless R-rated version and the so-called Director's Cut re-issue
(what a joke!). Ol' Toxie is on a quest to find his long lost father, but for
some reason everyone wants to kill him - even the UPS guy (who is disemboweled
and dismembered in spectacular fashion). Boasts the goriest knifing I've ever
seen, in addition to wheelchair disembowelment, limbs ripped off, brains punched
out, etc. Pretty damn funny too, and a must have for Tromaholics! [B, 18+] |
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Vampira: (1974) A.k.a. Old Dracula. Very rare British send-up of Hammer's most popular franchise. David Niven is Count Dracula and during these very modern times he has turned his castle into a tourist attraction in order to find the rarest of blood-types to bring his beloved Vampira back to undead life. When a bevy of Playboy beauties and their entourage decide to spend the night at the castle, ol' Drac finally gets a match! But it's not quite what he had in mind. Also stars Nicky Henson, Linda Hayden and Freddie Jones with a cameo by Carol Cleveland. Directed by Clive Donner. [B] |
The Very Best of Ben Elton Live!: (1991) Ben Elton, the scribe behind many classic British comedies such as The Young Ones and Black Adder, celebrates his 10th year as a stand-up comic with this live performance of some of his classic routines from 1981 including Yappy the Dog, Nobs on the Beach, Tits, Tampons, a Load of Bollards and many others. Not quite the sophisticated wit that is displayed in his TV shows, this is Elton’s raunchy side or as the box warns: This video was recorded late and live. Hence on occasion the subject matter can be rather robust and the language extremely fruity. [B] |
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We are Going to Eat You!: (1981) Tsui Hark's second film is sort of a cross between Drunken Master and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, about a cop that tracks a criminal to a remote village of cannibals, who want nothing better than to make stew out of 'em. Although this is essentially a kung-fu/gore/comedy, ol' Tsui manages to work up a few good chills (with the help of some Goblin music lifted from Suspiria). In Chinese with English subtitles. |
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Whoops Apocalypse: (1982) All six episodes of this hilarious British TV series in movie form (the episodes are uncut, but the intro and credit sequence in only at the beginning and end, respectively). Not to be confused with the less amusing ‘86 movie adaptation of the same title. This is the original show that skewers ‘80s politics with the US, the UK, Russia and the Middle East on the brink of nuclear war. While this was made 20 years ago, it’s amazing just how topical it still is – the Middle East sure hasn’t changed much and despite losing Communism, Russia isn’t much different either. A great cast heads things up with Barry Morse as the US president, Alexei Sayle as the Russian Commisar, John Cleese as a master of disguise who has stolen a warhead and is attempting to deliver it to Muslim radicals, Richard Griffiths as the Premier who has taken leave of his senses and believes himself to be Superman, plus Rik Mayall and others. [B] |
