Wordiezett So much average

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

studioAT They don't make sitcoms like this today. In our age of Political correctness this sitcom which pokes fun at pretty much all of the major players in the war wouldn't be allowed to be made today.But it's great fun. Full of catchphrases (it's fun to watch the early episodes where they haven't caught on yet), iconic moments and above all, great characters who we fully follow throughout the madcap farce that ensures throughout the nine series.Sitcoms like this don't age, not really. Yes, the picture quality gets a bit more grainy, and sadly we lose more of the cast as time goes on, but new audiences continue to discover and enjoy it with each passing year.It's a great comedy, and I'll say that more than once.

Ivan Bradley After - or during - far too many series-es, this show became flat and no longer entertaining. A great shame. When it was fresh it excellent.The first pilot episode - season 1, E00, has to rank among the very very best of television comedy of all time. The introduction of the theatrical device of accent = language is absurdly simple and breathtakingly brilliant. The pilot explains all the rules of the game to the viewer in one hilarious scene (airmen behind the curtains) and thereafter, the device is used consistently, never breaking the rules and yet developing the theme into all sorts of absurd comical extrapolations.One of the great strengths of Allo Allo is that it plays with xenophobia and national stereotyping in a way that has become unfashionable. As the politically correct movement has blossomed in the wake of the holier-than-thou prissy anal retentive neo-puritans who have tainted social thinking with their rabid chauvinism, an awful lot of areas of expression, analysis are now "bad taste." These areas are tools for exploring the very ideas of nationalism, racial prejudice and bigotry and whilever these ideas cannot be explored because someone has decreed that the playing field must be closed down, then no real progress in understanding can ever be made. Instead we have learned behaviour defined by narrow-mindedness and the fear of being seen not to champion whatever is socially fashionable.Please do not confuse humour with ideology.Is it possible to make a racist joke without being racist? Where you stand on this one determines how hidebound by ideology you are.Would Father Ted be well received everywhere in the world? Would it even be tolerated without Reformation?Allo Allo seems superficially xenophobic because it draws lines around stereotypes and "differentness" but it pokes fun at the roots of bigotry, reminding us that people are people irrespective of their mindset, beliefs, persuasions or foibles. It doesn't stop us being appalled at Nazism or the atrocities of war. It DOES remind us that these atrocities were carried out by ordinary, probably extremely likable, people whose pressure to conform to an ideology was greater that any individual could stand. Humour is nothing to be frightened of - unless one subscribes to a repressive ideology which cannot stand humour's light being cast on it.In Allo Allo we are invited to question. In Newspeak, we are not.We need more irreverence. What we really need are sitcoms about PC thinking, child abuse, Islam, slavery. Actually, one program could probably cover all of thatViva la difference, chaps!!!Rating? Pilot episode 9/10 First series 8/10 Later series 2/10

welshNick This awful TV comedy was a parody of the quite excellent BBC television series made in the late 70's called Secret Army. As many of us know Allied Air crew who were shot down over occupied Europe during the war were sometimes spirited back to England with the help of the evasion lines in Western Europe. These men and women took the most horrendous risks in doing their work for virtually no pay. If caught, it was torture, the concentration camp and then the firing squad. Many in the resistance and the evasion lines died horribly. On this back drop a comedy series is made. This at best is in extremely poor taste and at worst is highly offensive. Many of us would probably not be alive today were it not for the work these people did. As for the show itself, the jokes were the same week after week after week ..... the 'good moaning', 'I shall say this only once', the gay German officer etc etc There are subjects I feel should be left alone without comedies being written about them ..... this is one. For those that disagree, how would you like to see a comedy set in a death camp ? Or for our American friends, a comedy set on Death row ???

bubba babba David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd tread lightly but surely on a dangerous political territory exposing human shortcomings, hypocrisies, and conflicting driving forces and with their delightful sense of humor they win the audience over every time. But I am not sure how this show would be received in France, or Germany, or England even. Putting the characters into the shoes of superficial caricatures of resistance fighters to exploit this very opportune vantage point, while from a comical perspective as it offers a lot of grounds for humor is genius, in reality it is a bit insensitive. I am thinking of the resistance fighters of my own country whose first hand accounts I read quiet a lot and having done so I would have a difficult time laughing if there was a silly series as such made about them. But, it takes genius of the duo of producers in this series, to perpetuate stereotypes with such elegance and wit. After seeing the You Rang M'Lord series it is hard to say that Allo Allo is good. It by far falls short. It felt like there the plot and the characters did not evolve much or smoothly, the characters were not as multidimensional as in You Rang M'lord, and the different aspects of each character were not explored in various scenarios. It also felt like the producers perhaps were not operating with a theme and historical setting through which they could maneuver in a very liberal sort of way. However, standing alone this series is nevertheless funny in a silly kind of way. It has several catchy lines, the caricature characters are comical, and overall it is very entertaining. Some characters were more entertaining than others; I found the acting of the old lady, Edith, Herr Grueber, Helga and the old musician to be hilarious while Rene, the two barmaids, Herr Flik, and the women of the resistance left a lot to be desired. Nevertheless, I highly recommend it.