Okay, okay, I know we don't actually have any business declaring that this IS the funniest movie ever made. And I know that technically, it's just an opinion that may not be shared by the American Film Institute or old Mr. Ebert or even you, but still, THIS IS THE FUNNIEST MOVIE IN THE WORLD. period.
And since I suspect that most of you have never seen, maybe never even heard of it, it is our duty to share it. First off, I have to give some credit to my mom. She has owned this movie for eons (well, at least since shortly after 1995 when it was made) and tried several times to get me to watch it. But I'm not a big Kate Beckinsale fan and the cover of the dvd never really grabbed me. So it wasn't until I'd been out of the house for some time that I watched it with some friends in Indiana. In fact, one of Curmudgeon and my friends used this movie as a kind of litmus test for girls he was interested in. He'd have them watch it with him early on in their dating, and if they had the sophistication and intelligence and elegance to find it funny then they might get asked out again. Just kidding (well, not about the date-test, that really happened) it is silly and rustic and kind of dirty and only someone without any sense of humor at all could miss the utter hilariousness.
The major theme running through the entire film is "I saw something nasty in the woodshed" :) , the cows are named Feckless, Graceless, Aimless and Pointless, and nearly the final line of the movie is "Oh Charles, you do have heavenly teeth!" Also, just because I have a captive audience, here are some of our other favorite lines: "There be no butter in hell!" "Miss Poste, I'm engorgingly in love with you!" "'Should an embryo parson have a plane?' 'Everyone should have a plane!'" And our favorite, in response to the major theme above: "Yeah, but did it see you, Baby?"
When I've got little tidbits like that to whet your appetite with, I'm not even going to give you a plot synopsis. You'd be doing yourself a disservice not to run out and find this movie right now and watch it--it's on Netflix and if you don't do Netflix most libraries have a copy. Believe me, you'll thank us when it's all over.
Kate Beckinsale, Rufus Sewell, Ian McKellan, Eileen Atkins, Joanna Lumley, Stephen Fry and on and on with other memorable faces. Just go watch.
A query -- do you still speak in movie quotes as a regular form of communication? I miss that. (I shutter to think that you may have fallen, as I have, into quoting Dora [in your case, Bob the Builder] -- If only my children would watch Kipper again. Now that is a child's program you could quote with pride!) -- Also, who did the date-test?
ReplyDeleteNever fear, we still quote our favorites daily. And the date-test was our favorite multiple woodwinds specialist. :)
Deletefunny how your mother introduced you to two out of the three of these movies and may never even see the third.
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