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A Bunch of Amateurs (2008)
A bit of a laugh
Last DVD on the comedy shelf, it was either this or "18-year old virgin" or many things that weren't quite American Pie with Eugene Levy. This won, by default, and was actually a pretty decent laugh. Burt was a little unintelligible but the British cast all hit the spot and the scenery played its part. A little bit Local Hero meets Shakespeare in Love, sit back on a slow evening and let the film entertain you. It's all fairly predictable in pace but the writing is good and delivery effective. What's more important is something like this got made and provides an alternative to all those Eugene Levy movies! No offence, Mr. Levy
Guy X (2005)
It took a visit to the site...
...but it says there, in plain English, what the hospital ward is about. I just don't understand why the movie fails to explain (unless I missed among the howling wind-drowned conversations) something that's in about the 3rd paragraph of the synopsis. Now it all makes sense I can go to bed safe in the knowledge that I enjoyed the rest of the film and am not confused as the what, where's and why's of Guy X.
The highlights for me were:
The mad people The sane people The puffins The scenery
Also on the film site I adopted a Puffin, something I recommend you all do too!
Taxi (1998)
What a blast
A film that you would have loved to watch as a kid but as been made for grown ups its laden with some sexy humour, loads of action and no worry about complex plots or overbearing drama. Being French there's no drivelish American sentiment or endless British posturing and class angst. Not a film to be taken seriously, its played for laughs and you don't really need the subtitles as most of the dialogue just flies by beneath the wheels of speeding Taxi's police cars and criminals on the Run.
Think Cannonball Run meets BMX Bandits meets Touring Car racing and you've got the drift.