Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Walter Sloane Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Paul Evans I got an urge recently to re watch Allo Allo, I'd forgotten just how wonderful a sitcom it was. Probably the main comedy I remember growing up as a kid, I used to watch with my Dad. The quality of the first three series is enormous, they are slick, hilarious, original and addictive. From Series four onwards as you may expect it does lose a little of its zip and the gags get recycled, but who cares you'll still belly laugh.Too many favourite characters, and relationships to highlight, but I'll summarise what I feel are the best. The relationship between Renee and Gruber was possible the funniest in the show, the dialogue and misunderstandings right from the very beginning would be the high point of the show. The relationship between Colonel von Strom and Hans was also a joy, their timing was a joy, the show suffered from the departure of Sam Kelly. Both were physically funny too, I always laughed at the 'stuff it down the trousers' gag. Finally in terms of relationship I adored the one between Helga and Heir Flick, his lack of emotion, and her always ending up in her lingerie were hilarious, never stopped being funny.As for characters, I think my favourites were LeClerc and Mama, the oldies always delivered the laughs, you never knew who was going to end up in her bed, and you never knew what he was going to try and sell. The flashing knobs still make me howl with laughter. Officer Crabtree was an awesome addition, and some of the stuff he got away with, many a time he had me in tears laughingThe Gateau from the Château is hand on heart the funniest episode, with brilliance from Kay and Kelly, while the last ever episode remains very poignant.It's an absolute joy to watch 9/10

bent-mathiesen It is one of the best shows I have ever seen. I think it beat "soap", as the acting and jokes are simply brilliant. You cannot help to feel sorry for Rene, the Cafe owner, who is in constant stress from women who wants him, the resistance who wants him, the Germans who put pressure on him, the gestapo who threatens him, the constant worries about the picture of the fallen Madonna, the gold, the British airmen, and Lieutenant Hubert Gruber who also want Rene, his wife who also want him - and unfortunate sing in the Cafe, and the french resistance, and and and, and, and - it is all entangled, brilliant played, and a wonderful stress reliever. I cannot think of one episode that have been bad - but plenty that have been brilliant and leave you wanting to have more.A solid sense of humor and ability to laugh is needed to gain full value :)And I love the nice waitresses, just wonder what the whisker and celery is for - when not for kitchen, but used upstairs in the private rooms.

glenn-aylett Allo Allo started out as a one off in 1982,but was well received enough by viewers, to become a regular BBC sitcom and ran for eight series, attracting 17 million viewers at its peak.Allo Allo is a send up of the seventies BBC drama, Secret Army, where a cafe owner hid downed British airmen from the Nazis and took part in resistance activities. However, while Secret Army certainly wasn't a comedy, Allo Allo sent up Secret Army by replacing Albert, the resistance hero, with a cowardly, double dealing restaurant owner called Rene, played brilliantly by Gorden Kaye, who is a reluctant resistance member, hiding two idiotic RAF pilots from the Gestapo. Also while being a fairly useless member of the French Resistance, he is hiding two valuable paintings for the Nazis and hoping to cash in when the Nazis win the war and sell the paintings.For all a few viewers complained to the BBC that Allo Allo was demeaning the brave work of the French resistance and portraying the Nazis, particularly Gestapo man Herr Flick, as incompetent buffoons rather than sadistic and evil, the whole point of David Croft's sitcom was to send up every wartime stereotype going. Hence the French were shown up as cowardly, devious and lusty, Germans as kinky, cruel( in a humorous way in Allo Allo) and insensitive, the British as upper class twits and Italians as lazy and untrustworthy.Yet without a fantastic script by David Croft and an excellent cast, Allo Allo could have flopped, but went on to become the biggest sitcom of the mid eighties. Catchprhases such as " I shall this only once" in an exaggerated French accent, " you stupid woman" whenever Rene was caught by his wife with one of the waitresses, and Officer Crabtree's mangled attempts at speaking French, " I am a poloceman", entertained millions for years. Special mention has to be made of Richard Gibson's Herr Otto Flick, the Gestapo officer who was constantly being thwarted and coming off worse( in one case being blown up), Kirsten Cooke's hilarious French resistance leader Michelle, and Guy Siner as the gay Nazi, Gruber, who fancies Rene and pursues him throughout the series.Sadly political correctness would probably stop a show like Allo Allo being made now, but repeats prove there is a healthy market for such a good sitcom that is still hilarious thirty years later.

Hans-56 This series to me is the number two of British comedy. Number one is and remains the completely insane "Fawlty Towers". "Mr. Bean" is in third position. 'Allo, 'Allo was on Dutch (and Flemish) TV and was repeated several times. And that was a good thing, for the jokes and situations are so ridiculous that most of them need a second and sometimes third viewing. I will not retell the story, for many have done before me.A few things are really striking. The first is the great way all English actors utilize an accent, thus pretending to be either English, French, German or Italian. Even for people whose mother tongue is not the English language, but who understand it, this works perfectly well. Secondly is the repetitive use of the same joke, only slightly different.The latter is best shown by Renee, the café owner. He is extremely attractive to the young women working in his bar. Why he is so attractive to them probably is the greatest mystery in both: heaven and hell. Regularly he is caught by his evil wife, Edith, holding one of the young women in his arms. She will always ask a question like: 'Renee, why are you holding that young girl in your arms?' His reply varies, but always starts with 'You stupid woman!' Soon you will wait for the famous question, the well known answer and wait for the excuse he comes up with this time.This comedy is intelligently written, played and directed. It is top of the bill of comedy and proves that English humor is far better than American humor, for it really bites. Not only the Germans, but the French and even the the British are ridiculed! The only American comedy that has the same kind of bite ever produced was "All in the Family". Still the comparison to any American series I would like to make with "'Allo, 'Allo" actually is "Soap", for this has the same insane kind of humor.