mrpeterrobertson Reviews

My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

great film and not to be taken seriously

[12 October 2002]

Well your viewers comment on this movie is troublesome. This viewer obviously takes this movie (and himself?) far too seriously. All you have to do is relex and enjoy the dichotomy of two different cultures colliding - and the Wasp looses, not the Greeks! And that is my only complaint but apart from that the movie is very funny indeed. And it's an interesting insight to the Greek culture which can be a bit over the top at time (the Greeks not the movies).

The Girl-Getters (1964)

Even today it's a great film

[9/10 · 1 October 2002]

I first saw this film when it was released (in 1964) and it had a profound effect on me then, imagine my surprise when I saw it in the middle of the night on TV a few days ago and it hasn't lost any of it's freshness. Oliver Reed is brilliant, as he always was before he took to the bottle, and the idea of the girl turning the tables on the cock-sure man is executed magnificently. Furthermore the quote that I remember for forty years still rang true (Harry Andrews, a photographer, says "we're here to make memories" and Oliver Reed's reply "I thought we were here to make money"). People may laugh at Michale Winner now but this was god, very good. Even today.

National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)

American's cannot laugh at themselves

[23 May 2001]

The low star rating and the fact that in all the Video guide books this is a turkey (i.e. less than one star!) just proves that Americans cannot laugh at themselves. All my, European friends thought this was a great movie - all my American friends didn't. You have to look on it as the ultimate p***take of many countries (including England - Chevy Chase "Don't be silly darling, of course there's a toilet, the English go to the toilet, don't they?" - after looking everywhere in the hotel room "maybe they don't"). Although that joke says a lot about the comfort of London hotels it also says a lot about the cossetted Americans!

Blame It on Rio (1984)

I loved it

[23 May 2001]

Well, maybe it's just me but I thought this film was hilarious. 2 marvellous quotes:

"I can't do this", "Why not", "because I'm 23 years older than you', "29", "26"!!!!

"Go on tell her who" "Jennifer" "Jennnifer who?" "Jennifer" "ohhhh, you mean Jennifer, poor, sweet, young, innocent Jennifer........the bitch!"

For these lines alone the film merits a 10!

Me, Myself & Irene (2000)

Yes, but it's funny.

[8 May 2001]

I'm a Brit and we do like to think that we have a sophisticated sense of humour but notwithstanding the toilet jokes this film is very, very funny - and clever, too, as Jim Carrey wrestles with himself and throws himself into a car - it may be slapstick but it's clever slapstick! Yes, they did go overboard with the crude humour but seeing Carrey sitting on the loo with a very sore, self-inflicted butt, is priceless.

Yes, a winner