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alexsarllThough Monte Carlo Or Bust features two most Barry actors in the form of Peter Cook and Terry Thomas, neither of them played the character Barrington. Shame. Still rather whizzing fun, though.
As is Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, which is even more gloriously dumb than its predecessor. It makes only the barest pretence at a plot, owing more to pantomime or revue as a loosely linked series of fun setpieces. And it's when it does try to be a conventional film that it begins to falter, perhaps because in these sequences the pretty girls are joined by Demi Moore, one of those people who has spent huge amounts of money in the search for beauty without ever quite understanding it.
Also read the much-lauded Herobear And The Kid. Whichever one of the blurbs described it as 'the comic equivalent of a hug' was right on the money, but though heartwarming, it's far too 'I learned something today' didactic to be the new Calvin & Hobbes so many people want it to be.
As is Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, which is even more gloriously dumb than its predecessor. It makes only the barest pretence at a plot, owing more to pantomime or revue as a loosely linked series of fun setpieces. And it's when it does try to be a conventional film that it begins to falter, perhaps because in these sequences the pretty girls are joined by Demi Moore, one of those people who has spent huge amounts of money in the search for beauty without ever quite understanding it.
Also read the much-lauded Herobear And The Kid. Whichever one of the blurbs described it as 'the comic equivalent of a hug' was right on the money, but though heartwarming, it's far too 'I learned something today' didactic to be the new Calvin & Hobbes so many people want it to be.
