Pleading guilty, I love this film. I found it by coincidence in my next-corner video store right after it got on DVD around 2001, and I have surely watched it a dozen times ever since.
Each and every time it totally cracks me up, ESPECIALLY the final scene in the park. What a grumpy, stuck-up person do you have to be to not find this scene absolutely hilarious?
The film is yet another piece of evidence that English humour is simply the finest in the world, maybe with the exception of the French cinema. The ease, subtlety, and self-irony of the British humour is something film makers from Hollywood will never ever understand, let alone reach. It is so refreshing to stumble across such a wonderful quirky original among all those scripted over-the-top knee-slappers from the so called 'dream-factory' that - unfortunately - dominate the market.
All about this film is beautiful, the landscape, the story, the characters, the acting, even the soundtrack is nice. Really, one of my all time favourites.
The film is yet another piece of evidence that English humour is simply the finest in the world, maybe with the exception of the French cinema. The ease, subtlety, and self-irony of the British humour is something film makers from Hollywood will never ever understand, let alone reach. It is so refreshing to stumble across such a wonderful quirky original among all those scripted over-the-top knee-slappers from the so called 'dream-factory' that - unfortunately - dominate the market.
All about this film is beautiful, the landscape, the story, the characters, the acting, even the soundtrack is nice. Really, one of my all time favourites.