Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

johnekersley Unfortunately I have to agree with those who find this pretty awful. Firstly, Ronnie Barker for me was Britain's number 1 comedian of all time. I enjoyed Open All Hours immensely, but that was then, this is now. I saw 2-3 episodes from the first Series of Still Open All Hours - I think it was first Series - At first, I found it passable, but after buying the boxed DVDs for Series 1-2 and 3, it got worse and unfunny very quickly. To the extent that Series 3 really became pathetic. Revolving around an unfunny theme of selling the silly Eric and Cyril unsold or out of date produce from the shop, with the promise it would improve their sex life ??? Laughs were very few and far between and short. Why Mark Williams - Father Brown - appeared 3 times in the earlier Series, I have no idea, all 3 Series were a mishmash of 'bits' just tacked together to make a 30 minute programme ! Now, I hear of a possible 4th Series ? Series 3 should have ended any idea of that ?? Seems it didn't ?

RaspberryLucozade The tail end of 2013 saw three of Britain's best loved sitcoms being revived - 'Rab C. Nesbitt', 'Birds Of A Feather' and 'Open All Hours'. The nation was initially in doubt when a remake of 'Open All Hours' was put to the BBC. My initial dread was relieved somewhat though when I learned that some of the original cast would be involved and that Roy Clarke would be providing the scripts. On Boxing Day 2013, a pilot entitled 'Still Open All Hours' went out on BBC1 and, contrary to all expectations, it was a ratings success.Albert Arkwright has died and his nephew Granville has inherited the shop, as well as his tight-fistedness and knack for conning his customers. Working as his lackey is his illegitimate son Leroy, who came about as the result of a one-night stand in Blackpool. Leroy has the same relationship with his father as his father had with Arkwright, though Leroy seems to have more success with the opposite sex than Granville. Some of the original gang are still around such as the now retired Nurse Gladys Emmanuel ( Lynda Baron ), Stephanie Cole's Mrs. Featherstone ( a.k.a The Black Widow ) who seems to have softened with age as is evident by her apparent crush on Granville and Maggie Ollrenshaw ( looking better than she did in the original series ) as Mavis whose indecisiveness has not improved over the years. New characters include Wet Eric and his fiery wife Kath ( Johnny Vegas and the gorgeous Sally Lindsay ), the long suffering Gastric ( Tim Healy ), Mavis' over-protective sister Madge ( Brigit Forsyth ), gullible Cyril ( Kulvinder Ghir ) and fluttery Mrs. Hussein ( Nina Wadia ).And, of course, ever present is the over-aggressive cash register ( the very same one used in the original series ).David Jason is nowhere near as impressive as Barker was in the title role but then I don't think Jason was even trying to be better than his predecessor, for a start Clarke wisely chose not to have Granville inherit Arkwright's stammer. Had he tried so, the result would have been frightful. That said, he still managed to bring the same likability to his character. James Baxter was annoying as Leroy but all the same his presence was still needed. The original surviving cast members still haven't lost the knack either. Of all the new characters, my favourite was Johnny Vegas' Wet Eric whose relationship with his fearsome wife was hilarious.Whilst unsurprisingly never comparing in terms of popularity with the original, 'Still Open All Hours' was amusing and well enough received to run to a decent three series. Another wise movie was the retaining of Ronnie Hazelhurst's brilliant theme tune.

riley_b7 I don't know why some of you think this is insulting! Although it's a spin off from the original you have to see it as an entity all its own. David keeps Ronnie's character alive with the great photo and periodic stammer. A lot of the original cast is back joined by many fantastic newcomers. To you naysayers I say nay! This is an excellent show with many funny and warm moments. The old hand eating cash register is still having a go at Granville and the bosomy nurse Gladys still pays a visit. What more do you need?! The British have always been the masters of situation comedy and this is apparent in this show. Don't let the comments steer you away. This show is definitely worth watching. Great job!

l_rawjalaurence Roy Clarke has been one of the mainstays of British comedy writing for over four decades now. Hits such as LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE, OPEN ALL HOURS and KEEPING UP APPEARANCES have kept him at the top of the scriptwriting tree.However there comes a point when all writers are written out; in other words, their comic style is either obsolete or their work is just not funny any more. Sadly this is what has happened with STILL OPEN ALL HOURS, an update of the much-loved Eighties comedy with Granville (David Jason) now in the Ronnie Barker role and James Baxter taking the part of the ingénue enjoying far greater success with women than the younger Granville ever did.Corner shops like Arkwright's simply don't exist anymore; they have either been swallowed up by supermarkets or superseded by chain-store subsidiaries like Tesco Midi or Sainsbury's Local. The idea of middle-aged homemakers shopping on behalf of their spouses is redolent of the Fifties rather than the Nineties: people are far more likely to take their cars out and do a regular weekly shop rather than pop down to the local store for half a kilo of bacon and a packet of tea. Perhaps more obviously, the stereotype of the northern town whose citizens all speak broad Yorksher accents - and who are mostly white - is equally outmoded; in an industrial area where Arkwright's is (presumably) located, the population is likely to be far more multicultural, speaking in a variety of Englishes.What we have in this one-off episode is a cameo-laden cast delivering a succession of weak and mildly bawdy jokes, in the pronounced vocal style characteristic of Seventies sitcoms. Lynda Baron and Stephanie Cole return to their roles from the original series, complemented by Johnny Vegas, Mark Williams and Brigit Forsyth (fondly remembered by viewers of a certain age as Thelma in WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE LIKELY LADS?). There is a certain air of desperation throughout as the actors strive for laughs, aided and abetted by a studio audience which seems ready to respond to anything, whether unfunny or not.History shows that most remakes, updates or reworkings of much-loved comedies seldom work (remember Paul Merton performing Hancock, or IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH, a modern update of TILL DEATH US DO PART). STILL OPEN ALL HOURS sadly underlines the truth of this statement.