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Fawlty Towers: The Complete Series (3 Discs)
»rank: 39
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Basil Fawlty, as created and performed by John Cleese, is the rudest, most boorish, most hilariously obnoxious man on the face of the planet. What a natural for a TV sitcom! His screen wife, Sybil (Prunella Scales), put it best in the episode 'The Psychiatrist': 'You're either crawling all over them, licking their boots, or spitting poison at them like some Benzedrine puff adder.' He mockingly replies, 'Just trying to enjoy myself, dear.' With his gangly frame and contortionist abilities, Cleese brilliantly punctuates Basil's outrageous faux pas ...
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Widescreen)
»rank: 2953
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Could this be the funniest movie ever made? By any rational measure of comedy, this medieval romp from the Monty Python troupe certainly belongs on the short list of candidates. According to Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide, it's 'recommended for fans only,' but we say hogwash to that--you could be a complete newcomer to the Python phenomenon and still find this send-up of the Arthurian legend to be wet-your-pants hilarious. lt's basically a series of sketches woven together as King Arthur's quest for the Holy ...
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Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life (Special Edition)
»rank: 5132
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Returning to the sketch-show format of their earlier days, Monty Python' s The Meaning of Life was always going to feel less ambitious and less coherent than their cinematic masterpiece, The Life of Brian. And inevitably given the format, some sketches are better than others. But, for a movie that has been much-maligned, The Meaning of Life actually features some of the Pythons' most memorable set-pieces: the exploding Mr Creosote has to be the most wonderfully grotesque creation of a team whose speciality was the grotesque; while ...
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Monty Python's Life of Brian
»rank: 3419
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:'Blessed are the cheesemakers,' a wise man once said. 0r maybe not. But the point is Monty Python's Life of Brian is a religious satire that does not target specific religions or religious leaders (like, say, Jesus of Nazareth). lnstead, it pokes fun at the mindless and fanatical among their followers--it's an attack on religious zealotry and hypocrisy--things that that fellow from Nazareth didn't particularly care for either. Nevertheless, at the time of its release in 1979, those who hadn't seen it considered it to be ...
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Rat Race (Widescreen)
»rank: 3363
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:'Blessed are the cheesemakers,' a wise man once said. 0r maybe not. But the point is Monty Python's Life of Brian is a religious satire that does not target specific religions or religious leaders (like, say, Jesus of Nazareth). lnstead, it pokes fun at the mindless and fanatical among their followers--it's an attack on religious zealotry and hypocrisy--things that that fellow from Nazareth didn't particularly care for either. Nevertheless, at the time of its release in 1979, those who hadn't seen it considered it to be ...
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A Fish Called Wanda
»rank: 442
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:This 1988 comedy starred and was scripted by John Cleese and directed by Charles Crichton, veteran Ealing Comedy director. After 1986's Clockwise--in which he played a manic loser similar to Basil Fawlty--A Fish Called Wanda saw Cleese opting for a more sympathetic lead role. Cleese plays Archie Leach (Cary Grant's real name), a barrister living a typically English life of quiet desperation, who falls prey to the American charms of Jamie Lee Curtis. Posing as a law student, she's actually involved in a diamond robbery with psychotic ...
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Widescreen)
»rank: 442
Chroniques et points de vue:From :First sequels are the true test of an enduring movie franchise, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets passes with flying colors. Expanding upon the lavish sets, special effects, and grand adventure of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry's second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry involves a darker, more malevolent tale (parents with younger children beware), beginning with the petrified bodies of several Hogwarts students and magical clues leading Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint), and Hermione (Emma Watson) to a 50-year-old ...
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Shrek 2 (Full Screen)
»rank: 4397
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The lovably ugly green ogre returns with his green bride and furry, hooved friend in Shrek 2. The newlywed Shrek and Princess Fiona are invited to Fiona's former kingdom, Far Far Away, to have the marriage blessed by Fiona's parents--which Shrek thinks is a bad, bad idea, and he's proved right: The parents are horrified by their daughter's transformation into an ogress, a fairy godmother wants her son Prince Charming to win Fiona, and a feline assassin is hired to get Shrek out of the way. The ...
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George of the Jungle (Widescreen)
»rank: 11177
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Not even the executives at Disney could have predicted the runaway success of this live-action movie inspired by Jay Ward's goofy 1960s cartoon character. Not only did George make a killing at the box office, but Disney's marketing wizards turned it into one of their best-selling videos. lt's hard to begrudge the movie's success, even if this is the kind of mindless entertainment that caters to the lowest common denominator. ln any case, it's obvious that kids love this movie, in which the idiotic George (Brendan Fraser) ...
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Doctor Who: City of Death
»rank: 5806
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The late Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) co-wrote this enormously popular four-part story from 1979, which pits the Doctor (Tom Baker) and Romana (Lalla Ward) against a time-traveling alien (Julian Glover) whose body, fragmented by an accident, spurred evolution millions of years ago. Now restored to his full (and horrific) form, he plans to travel back in time and prevent the destruction of his ship--which in turn would profoundly affect the course of humanity. A terrific blend of science-fiction thrills and humor (well-played by ...
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