Not one of Cleese's best, but a very funny movie overall
Added 5/8/2009
Bought this movie along with A Fish Called Wanda, another Cleese classic. I found this movie to be funny, though not up with A Fish Called Wanda. I do not believe that any other Cleese film could equal Fish, but this movie is a hoot overall. Worth the price paid and worth a watch on a rainy day.
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Great Follow on to Pawlty Towers
Added 12/30/2008
if you like John Cleese you will love this Movie.
Great to see Cleese in action, so talented!
This Movie is so cheap. Everyone who has viewed the movie in our home loves it.
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It has John Cleese... of course it's funny!
Added 5/12/2007
Ok, I love John Cleese. This movie is a great sleeper starring the master. There is less physical comedy and more subtle comedy in this film, and I like that. It will never be listed among his master works I'm sure, but a great and cute little film. If you like Cleese, this belongs in your collection.
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Wrapped too tight
Added 11/19/2006
The tight fabric of the tight little British
island unravels slowly and hilariously in this
English entropic comedy. John Cleese, late
of Monty Python, is splendid as the overwrapped
butt of the joke, and Sharon Maiden as his
unwilling travelling companion is a sexy
comic little treasure.
Director Christopher Morahan, who did Jewel
in the Crown is playing again with the theme
of the middle-class overacheiver. In Jewel,
he's the salesman's son who becomes an officer
and whose undoing leaves us unsurprised--of
course he likes to whip little boys, what do
you expect of someone who's no gentleman?
In Clockwise, the social climber is the
headmaster of a middle-class school who's
hobnobbing with his betters and gets suit-
ably punished.
The snobbish dark side of the film is
bothering me more in retrospect, but this
is still a genuine laugh-out-loud comedy.
--Lynn Hoffman, author of THE NEW SHORT COURSE IN WINE
and the forthcoming novel bang-BANG from Kunati Books.
ISBN 9781601640005
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The longest distance between two points
Added 7/22/2006
It's pretty ironic that this film came out the same year as the similarly plotted "Planes, Trains and Automobiles". The concept of persons trying to get from Point A to Point B only to find themselves at Points C through Q first has been fodder for movie comedies for years. (Think of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" or any of the Hope/Crosby "Road to..." movies.)
Only one thing makes this film different from the others. (You guessed it!) John Cleese. Rather than exploding at every mishap along the way, Cleese's performance is an exercise in proper British restraint in the face of adversity. The master of the slow boil, Edgar Kennedy, would have appreciated Cleese's performance here. You just wait. You feel Cleese's blood pressure rise. You see the veins swelling and coiling. It's truly something amazing to watch. The supporting cast is very effective, and, as another reviewer pointed out, is a veritable roll call of British character actors. And what characters!
But even the best of these films suffer from the fact that they are one-joke movies. They tend to drag on just a little bit, and "Clockwise" is no different. Still, it's worth viewing.
Finally, the brief interview with John Cleese is a nice little addition to this DVD.
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Not one of Cleese's best, but a very funny movie overall
Added 5/8/2009
Bought this movie along with A Fish Called Wanda, another Cleese classic. I found this movie to be funny, though not up with A Fish Called Wanda. I do not believe that any other Cleese film could equal Fish, but this movie is a hoot overall. Worth the price paid and worth a watch on a rainy day.
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Great Follow on to Pawlty Towers
Added 12/30/2008
if you like John Cleese you will love this Movie.
Great to see Cleese in action, so talented!
This Movie is so cheap. Everyone who has viewed the movie in our home loves it.
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It has John Cleese... of course it's funny!
Added 5/12/2007
Ok, I love John Cleese. This movie is a great sleeper starring the master. There is less physical comedy and more subtle comedy in this film, and I like that. It will never be listed among his master works I'm sure, but a great and cute little film. If you like Cleese, this belongs in your collection.
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