SoTrumpBelieve
Must See Movie...
Reptileenbu
Did you people see the same film I saw?
Forumrxes
Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.
Matylda Swan
It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.
vauxhall19
Yes, I saw it when it was first broadcast in the 70s. Yes, I saw the many repeats in the years that followed. Yes, I bought the videos. Then the DVDs. And now I watch the tributes and reruns on minor TV channels. And you know what? An incredible 40 years on, it's still the benchmark against which all comedies must be measured. It's impressive it hasn't really dated at all in the intervening four decades. It's still consistently laugh-out-loud funny, despite me having seen the episodes multiple times. That takes a special kind of comedic magic. I honestly believe, it will never be bettered.
Johnny H.
Fawlty Towers is beloved by millions of people: even today. The 70s classic is a small but wonderfully made series that became as classic, if not more so, as Monty Python! John Cleese co-created both Monty Python and Fawlty Towers; and those two shows demonstrate how massive a talent the man truly has inside himself. He makes characters do silly things oblivious to what they're doing. He makes characters get into the silliest scenarios and concocts beautiful self-deprecation of his characters. Fawlty Towers is the man's crowning-achievement; and it's still hilarious 40+ years after the show's initial airing.Wonderful show + wonderful acting and writing = Platinum television!
grantss
Classic, iconic, hilarious comedy series.Fawlty Towers is a hotel in Torquay, UK. Its owner and manager is curmudgeonly, irascible, sarcastic Basil Fawlty (played by Monty Python's John Cleese). There is also his wife, Sybil (Prunella Scales), level-headed Polly (Connie Booth) and Spanish waiter Manuel (Andrew Sachs)...Hysterically funny, and really an instructional video on how not to provide customer service. Some of the skits are classic and will still be repeated and quoted for decades to come.John Cleese's over-the-top antics steal the show, but the others are perfect in their roles. The only pity about this show is that only 12 episodes were ever made.
guywdavies
Seriously, as dumb an American as I am, all it simply takes is one to take a look at "Brit. Humour, then watch Fawlty Towers; it becomes easier to separate the former: ("Brit Humor") from Fawlty Towers; (the latter) one begins to separate in their mind; British Humor vs. pure humor. Pure unadulterated humor. One that runs amok. Runs rampant, twisting and turning. Branching. Swirling like tendrils of ivy on a drab, lime stained brick wall. This is Fawlty Towers to me. (Duh). Basil Fawlty: (a main character) owns a hotel. [(Much like a particular twisted individual in real life, who owned a "hotel" (murder, albeit) in Chicago, Illinois, (...on that turd mound across the pond)...(for some) back in the late 1800s'].Basil lures his victims in to his web of torture, by posing as an eccentric innkeeper by the shore. As smart as some in the cast think they are, how little do they know just how far Basil will go to brutally and unmercifully bully, insult, defame, humiliate, taunt, and torture all he allows in his web, and just how stupid they really are for not seeing it. Except one.That tart of a maid under Basil's employ. Yes! She also takes great pleasure by allowing and enabling the borderline dissociative, sociopath, ASD riddled, word salad spewing, worm brained, multiple personality disorder afflicted, severely emasculated, sexually repressed and frustrated Basil to take his great pleasure torturing the guests, (damn the collateral damage)in some sort of kinky humor fetish thing the both are afflicted with; partaking, if you will, in some S&M 'humoric intercourse' with each other, taking it all the way to the brink of an endorphins soaked ecstasy, (because it is all about sex and/or the lack thereof, mind you).Yes. Simply put: All are victims of some nut job who gets his rocks off by messing around with his staff, family and guests to the point of rage quitting, or becoming a captive with Stockholm Syndrome I guess,as they become just as mad as a hatter as himself.Yes. You will laugh. Laugh yourself retarded.Something you want to watch...?
