Guest House Paradiso (1999)
Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Vincent Cassel, Hélène Mahieu, Bill Nighy
Richie and Eddie are in charge of the worst hotel in the UK, Guest House Paradiso, neighbouring a nuclear power plant. The illegal immigrant chef has fled and all the guests have gone. But when a famous Italian filmstar, Gina Carbonara, who is in hiding from a fiance she doesn't want to marry, arriv... (read more) Richie and Eddie are in charge of the worst hotel in the UK, Guest House Paradiso, neighbouring a nuclear power plant. The illegal immigrant chef has fled and all the guests have gone. But when a famous Italian filmstar, Gina Carbonara, who is in hiding from a fiance she doesn't want to marry, arrives at the hotel, things get very interesting! Another family come to the hotel as it is the only one they can afford, and when Richie uses the many tunnels and airways to steal some of their rubber bikinis, then is caught by the family's dad, he tries everything to get the video back. When Eddie finds some radioactive fish and it's served to the customers, a bunch of power plant workers find out and a quaratine is on its way. Even worse, when Gina's estranged fiance arrives, all hell breaks loose! Just in time for Eddie, Richie and Gina to escape to the Carribean and spend all their new found money!
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R, 89 min.
Directed by:
Adrian Edmondson
Release Date: Jan 01, 1999
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Started out a bit 70s-80s kinda hardcore screwball comedy; getting 'better' as long as the film moves- provided that one could adapt to it's brainless, stupid style.
I remember this being better :(. Not as good as the usual Rik and Ade offerings.
So so disapointing after such an amazing couple of series! I can't work out what went wrong with this, as I love both the actors and the characters they play!
Funny in places but fails to capture that certain edge the television series had.
Richie Rich and Eddie Hitler from Bottom are running a B&B, and packing in all the physical humor, gross-out gags and rude double entendres possible. Bill Nighy and Simon Pegg are simply there as straight men, although Pegg does get hoisted by his n... (read more) Richie Rich and Eddie Hitler from Bottom are running a B&B, and packing in all the physical humor, gross-out gags and rude double entendres possible. Bill Nighy and Simon Pegg are simply there as straight men, although Pegg does get hoisted by his nipple while sleeping. To which he drowsily murmurs, "That's it. Lady Diana, Princess of Wales.. you dirty bitch."
This is a distillation of the same scatological idiocy anyone familiar has seen Mayall & Edmondson do before, and you either enjoy it or do not. Fans of Nighy, Pegg, or Cassel may be disappointed - unless you were yearning to see them in a projectile regurgitation finale reminiscent of Python or early Jackson.
a great adaptation of the funniest TV show
Eddie and Richie are the best comedy duo on TV
hilariously awesome and everything i wanted. to like this fan you must be a big fan of "bottom", because this movie is just as insane as any episode, probably more so, plus the theatrical debut of simon pegg. the comic brilliance of rik mayall and ad... (read more) hilariously awesome and everything i wanted. to like this fan you must be a big fan of "bottom", because this movie is just as insane as any episode, probably more so, plus the theatrical debut of simon pegg. the comic brilliance of rik mayall and adrian edmondson make this film a gem in british comedy as both of them are comedic idols.
Should've been much better than it actually was. I might give it another go one day.
I wish so much that just one more series of Bottom had been made. Rik and Adrian are the last true greats of slapstick, and certainly pioneers of ultra-violent slapstick. This is toilet humour of the most disgusting and base kind, and GHP proceeds to... (read more) I wish so much that just one more series of Bottom had been made. Rik and Adrian are the last true greats of slapstick, and certainly pioneers of ultra-violent slapstick. This is toilet humour of the most disgusting and base kind, and GHP proceeds to lovingly subject the viewer to 90 minutes of slamming heads in fridge doors, vomit, transvestisism, nipple rings, seediness and voyeurism. I would say that the film slightly loses steam roughly an hour into it though. Great to see Cassel and Pegg make appearances.
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