How could they get it so wrong?

gpshovlin

Overall, I felt this was a wasted opportunity. I feel ever so let down by the League as I felt they had their fingers on the pulse, but this film is ever so slightly up its own backside, and you can't help but feel some of it was for their own amusement.

Although I welcomed the fact that they wanted to do something different (as opposed to sending the characters off on holiday, a la Are You Being Served film version), they just don't manage to pull it off, and the irony is it probably would have been a safer bet sending the characters off on holiday.

Surely they could have stretched a full length plot around a character such as Papa Lazorous (sic) or even Geoff, who has pretty much the only funny lines throughout. I could see what they tried to do with Herr Lip, in that he faces up to the fact that he is a one joke, one dimensional character, but that was as clever and interesting as got.

The medieval section sucked big style, and reeked of a poor Monty Python sketch. Definitely more Meaning of Life than Life of Brian.

score 5/10

gpshovlin 12 June 2005

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