A brilliant film that helped define a genre

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

'Guest House Paradiso,' or, as was added later on the video box, 'The Bottom Movie.' I've been a fan of 'Bottom' (and before that 'The Young Ones') ever since it first crawled onto our televisions screens. So, like many, I was happy that the hideous Richie and Eddie had made it onto the big screen. I remember back in 1999 when it came out that it only received a Luke-warm reception, but I saw it anyway. My reaction – it just left me a bit cold.It's not a 'Bottom' movie. The characters, although basically identical to the Richie and Eddie that we know and love, have different surnames. It would be a bit simplistic to say that the movie failed on account of that one minor point, but, for some reason, I can't really think of anything else.Guest House Paradiso was not a commercial or critical success at the Box Office. I decided to watch it again because I enjoyed re-watching the series recently. I was surprised when I saw online how well-received it actually was. However, even from a second viewing over fifteen years later, I still didn't 'get it.' And I don't know why. Guest House Paradiso has everything that bottom has: the characters, the gross-out humour, the slap-stick violence and the overall feel of Bottom. Yet it still didn't do it for me. Perhaps I enjoyed seeing Bottom in 'smaller doses.' The half hour runtime of an average TV episode seemed just right. Maybe I found that stretching the concept out for an hour and a half was too much? Yes, there are funny bits and I did smile. It's stupidly dumb, but it never tries to be anything else. Despite my love for the Young Ones and Bottom, I have yet to warm to this big screen version. But, if you're thinking of watching it, based on what I've seen I am now in the minority. It seems that Guest House Paradiso has found its market at last and time has been more forgiving than the critics at the time and me now. I'll always have a special fondness for the antics of Richie and Eddie, just not here. Sorry, boys.

I absolutely love this film, regardless of how many times I watch it - it continues to make me laugh. Rik and Ade have brought 'Bottom' onto the big screen and really have done it justice.It's great to see some, now, famous faces in this film - I think it has placed the comedic genius of these two writers on a splendid pedestal! This is very much, obvious and blatant humour. Not at all dry, or subtle. But - if you're at all familiar with these two comedians, you'd expect nothing less! But it is absolutely fabulous! Anyone who likes the original televised series will love this and similarly, if you like this but have not seen the televised series - I'd strongly recommend a viewing.As a side note, however. If you're not fond of the T.V series, you'll most probably dislike this film also.

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.

i had been looking for this film for so long before i found it, i had seen it when i was younger and loved it, after my second viewing i still loved it and i still do.this is a love/hate film, if you like bottom, young ones, the comic strip, then you will find this funny. If you don't like that kind of humour then don't bother. I love this film and have grown up with these comedy programmes, for me this film is simply placing their comic genius on the big screen.. It is not an award winner by any means but if you just want good wholesome slapstick then this is it!the film lacks the quality of the TV series and this is usually the case with films but it still has enough material to keep you laughing even if a lot of the jokes are pretty similar to their previous work.yes, the humour is a little childish and not to everyone's taste but sometimes you just need that in a film.