Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Dinner for One" is an 18-minute movie and it's a West German production despite being completely in English (apart from the introduction). It was made over 50 years ago, back in 1963, and the original is in black-and-white, which is actually not a given anymore in the 1960s. However, there are also colored versions out there. The two lead actors are English and for both of them, it's easily their most famous work. Same can be said about director Heinz Dunkhase, who only made one other film.This film gets shown every year on the 31st of December many times on different television channels. It has really become a classic. However, I must say I do not find it that funny. The whole idea about the butler getting more and more drunk (and accordingly the non-existent guests as well) becomes repetitive fairly quickly and there is not any humor to Miss Sophie at all. I do not think this film somehow deserves its current status as a classic movie that everybody knows of. At least that is the case here in Germany. I do not think it's famous at all in England, let alone in the United States and they certainly got it right. Thumbs down from me.

linc0634 There's a reason this has never been a hit in the UK - because most of us have a sense of humour more developed than that of a three year old.This is watched on new year's eve by many people in Germany - it's actually a tradition, and they seem to find it absolutely hilarious. I find this completely bizarre, as this is repetitious pap on a par with the Teletubbies. I could barely watch it past the three-minute mark, and didn't laugh once during the entire sketch, so heavens knows how anyone can watch this rubbish every year.It's popularity is utterly, utterly bewildering to me - avoid.

dingoberserk Am I the only person in the world who does not find Dinner for One in the least funny? The sketch belongs to a low, unsubtle type of slapstick, something that may appeal to some non-Anglosaxon audiences. A world apart from the best of subtle humor (as in Yes Minister), or the best of slapstick for that matter (as in Laurel and Hardy movies). Even if some of the incidents could be regarded as comical (for example, the butler's frequent collisions with a tiger's head on the floor), their very repetitiousness engenders tedium. All the 'comical' bits are contained in the first three minutes, after which they are repeated ad nauseam. Mocking the frailties of old age seems unworthy to me. The success of Dinner for One remains a mystery.

mGoLos LOLDinner for one is some of the most brilliant, universal humor I have ever seen. Everyone can have a good laugh at this drunkend butler, mostly because we laugh at ourselves.Hysterical, 10/10 :)mGoLos