Memorable, crazy movie

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

It was after their third stage tour of 'Bottom' that Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson toyed with the idea of making 'Bottom' into a movie. During their tours, Rik and Ade spent their spare time sitting around whichever hotel it was they were staying in at that time and felt the idea of Richie and Eddie owning their own hotel had massive comedy potential, an idea which was pitched to their tour producer Phil McIntyre, who gave his full blessing for them to make it into a film and acted once again as producer whilst Edmondson directed. Creation of the film was delayed for sometime following Rik's well publicised quad bike accident which very nearly claimed his life. It was not until Rik's recovery in 1999 that 'Guest House Paradiso' finally went into production. It went on release on 3 December 1999 and met with mixed reviews. Critics tore it to shreds whilst 'Bottom' fans, such as myself, loved every minute of it.'Guest House Paradiso' is quite possibly the worst hotel in Britain ( even the village locals denied it ever being in existence ), being situated right next to a badly maintained nuclear power station ( in which a chimney stack and two domes uncannily resemble a penis ) and whose waiting staff are mostly illegal immigrants ( one of which is played by Steven O'Donnell, who played Spudgun in the series ). Richie has undergone a name change from Richie Richard to Richie Tw*t, which he insists is pronounced Thwaite ( I wonder if this was a dig at Patricia Routledge's Hyacinth Bucket from 'Keeping Up Appearances' who insisted that her surname was pronounced Bouquet ) whilst Eddie's surname is changed from Hitler to Ndingombaba. The only guests include senile Mrs. Foxfur ( Fenella Fielding ), a constantly horny newlywed couple and prudish common-law couple Mr. Johnson and Ms. Hardy ( Bill Nighy and Kate Ashfield ). After an altercation in the kitchen ( which results in Richie getting knocked out ), Mr. Johnson and Ms. Hardy leave without paying, leaving Richie angry and depressed.However things look to shape up with not only the arrival of Mr & Mrs. Nice ( Simon Pegg in what was his first film role and Lisa Palfrey ) arrive with their children Damien and Charlene ( Joe Hughes and Jessica Mann ) but of famous Italian film-star Gina Carbonara ( the gorgeous Helene Mahieu ) who is on the run from her violent fiancée Gino Bolognese ( Vincent Cassell ). As you can see, subtlety is all but existent here. Unfortunately for poor Gina, her estranged fiancée Gino shows up at the hotel, with thoughts on exacting revenge for Gina jilting him at the alter.However, things go drastically wrong when the fish dinner that is served that night ( which fell off the back of a contaminated waste lorry ) causes the guests to become violently ill and spew radioactive vomit at high velocity. Will Richie and Eddie get found out? Will the guests survive? Will Gina be saved in time from the clutches of Gino? Watch and find out.'Guest House Paradiso' is delightfully funny and brilliantly over-the top throughout and the entire cast brought the hilariously absurd characters and dialogue to life with their sterling performances. Helene Mahieu at that time was one of my biggest childhood crushes. No wonder Richie and Eddie lusted after her. The sound effects and incidental music sounds like something out of a 'Laurel & Hardy' film but as it happens it works rather well for the way the film looks.The only real negative aspect was the vomiting scene. I feel it went on far longer than it actually needed to and the end to said scene looked way too farcical even by Rik and Ade's standards. Among the most amusing moments were Richie and Eddie beating each other to a pulp in the kitchen over a breakfast order, Richie getting trapped in an oven, Eddie taking a pee whilst riding his motorbike, Richie trying on a latex bikini and, best for last, Richie getting a burning candle rammed into his eye, not once, but twice! There never was a sequel ( though I doubt there was ever one planned ) but 'Bottom' fans only had two years to wait until the fourth stage show - 'Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity' - got underway.Funniest moment - it has to be the 'candle in the eye' moment. In a documentary about the making of the film, Ade Edmondson humorously commented that the scene was fairly straightforward to do - ''We just stuck a candle in Rik's eye and gave him some painkillers!''

I haven't written a review on here in ages but rewatching all of bottom TV show, live shows and this I felt I had to make my views on this movie known! It is, I feel, the perfect comedy movie. It lacks the lovey dovey story lines(I wouldn't really call richies enfatuation with Gina Carbonara love would you? Or him and eddie going up there naked... not love) that make the rest of comedys go from good to crap, it lacks the usual dilemmas that one must overcome in most other comedy movies... unless you count the fact that they poisoned the guests and must escape from the guests green vomit as a dilemma thats similar to other comedy movies..... No, this movie just sets out and succeeds in doing one thing AND ONE thing only: Making one laugh. What does one require from comedy movies? Laughter. This movie just piles on laugh after laugh without stuffing up the laughs with serious crap like other comedy movies! Thus I call it the, so far, only perfect comedy movie ever made and I will never ever stop watching this beautiful movie! I appluad rick and ade on such fantastic genius!

This is the FIRST movie that has made me feel completely SICK to the bottom of my mind, soul and body.I just saw it on DVD at home, & saw it to the end because it was recommended and I have liked all Rick Mayall's other work including the Young Ones and Bottom (though more the last Season of that.) It's quite clear Edmonson & Mayall wanted to take certain themes (like vomit, and extreme balls & head crunching) to the limit. But that is about IT. There were some vague sexual references and some crawling through crawl spaces, but the only really funny thing I found was right at the start with Eddy sleep motorcycling. From there it was all downhill. And ALL THE SAME, over and frickin over.That I have to warn about "may contain spoilers" after so few words says something about the movie.That's about IT….Oh, plus, I am expected to find the prospect of a dozen or so perfectly innocent men women and children dying in the unutterable agony of extreme radiation poisoning, while the poisoners jet off to the Caribbean with "a million pounds and gorgeous crumpet"… hilarious...? It wasn't the vomit, it was THAT I found just too SICK after so much wasted time and repetitively brainless slapstick.I haven't had dinner, I am hungry, but I am literally too ill to eat after this. Not even the later Hellraiser movies did this to me, either from horror or lack of detectable story line! I WANT MY 89 MINUTES BACK PLUS THE DVD RENTAL! Those amateur reviewers pushing this film so hard I have to suspect are having a little sadistic fun themselves... "'Ere eat this luvly shellfish with the extra hot sauce added, you'll feel LUVLY!!!" Eeerrgaghhhhhhhhhh..............Rick Mayall is one of the greatest comedians of our time - whether in slapstick (Bottom) or high satire (The New Statesman, Believe Nothing). I think that's what made this one stink bomb so hard to take in the end.

This was a very enjoyable hour and a half or so. I watched it just because I was testing out the TV reception in my new-to-me room, and it was on as the "late night show" or whatever they put on just before scheduled broadcasting for the day ends.Anyhow, the show was really crude, and reminded me of why I liked British humor. I won't spoil it but I will explain why I gave it 8/10: first off, it is comedy, and comedy should make me laugh. This definitely did! The humor is definitely of an adult nature, and crude, but that's apparently the style of the "Bottom" series, but I can't be sure as this is the first and only I've watched. The reason took off two points, though: it isn't perfect. Production values aren't horrible but they're not top-notch either. More relevantly, there's nothing in the presentation that made me go "wow". However, I wasn't expecting it to, it was a comedy! Finally, the beginning of the show was, in my opinion, paced too slowly and abruptly. It should have given a more solid sense of the hotel/guest house and its context, rather than leaving contextual facts to be introduced only moments before they are used in a gag.... but that's just my picky opinion. As a comedy, this is definitely something I'd want to buy and own.