It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

It is the British comedy what you expect. Not only for humor but for the impecable script. Lovely performances. And crumbs of Monty Python. Short, a delight.

Every few years someone thinks it would be a funny idea to have guys running around in girl's clothing or vice versa. (Occasionally a Wayans brother (or two) think it would be even funnier if they were also a different race as well as a different gender, but that's another, sadder story.) Nuns on the Run is most definitely a one-note premise milked dry, but it has enough jokes along the way to make it a worthwhile 90 minutes.Brian (Eric Idle) and Charlie (Robbie Coltrane) are reluctant robbers who lament the old classy days where violence wasn't necessary. Their boss Case is a hard nut who favours the new ways – guns n stuff – and the boys are dropped in the sh*t when he discovers that they want out.So out of desperation the duo decide to 'heist the heisters', keep the ill gotten gains for themselves and zippedy-skidoo off to Brazil for the remainder of their lives.Things get complicated when 1/ Brian falls for a ditzy waitress named Faith, and 2/ the re-heist goes awry and they must lie low in the nearest safe place.Of course this is a nunnery, and despite looking like guys with horrible make up and sounding like guys doing women's voices badly none of the nuns are nun the wiser… or something like that.What ensues is obvious and formulaic – but funny nonetheless.We get to see these obvious non-nuns teaching impressionable young girls about religion, (and after phys-ed joining them in the showers!), hear confession, and watch ugly Brian ward off the local horny priest and keep his cover a secret from Faith who has managed to show up at the nunnery.As the police, the triads and Case's gang all search for the boys and their stolen cash even the nuns start getting a little suss as to their true identities.Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane are both very strong comedic actors, though it must be said some of the bit parts were cast in haste, as some of the acting is quite atrocious.All that said the banter is light and humorous and there are some genuine laughs at times. It's hard not to like Nuns on the Run, it isn't blasphemous or too racy and for the most part realises it is little more than an innocent flick with no delusions of grandeur.Final Rating – 6 / 10. Hard to track down now, and admittedly a one-note flick. But a good one.

I went to see this with my cousin Dave, back in 1990. I was visiting Oregon and we both went to see a movie, this looked really good to me. Now, I was only really familiar with the likes of, "The Benny Hill Show" and not with much else English. My cousin might as well have been a rock-star, he was into heavy metal and had no care or ties to class or culture. At any rate, we went and agreed on this in sort of a 'flip' manner. When the previews ended, I forgot what we came to see, so did Dave, but just shortly after starting, the story was infectious!! We both laughed and laughed, all the way through. These two Englishmen Idle and Coltrane and a cast that I had never seen before, just lit up. The music was a delightful companion to the movie. I know that usually with comedy, in a certain culture you might get it or you might not, if you are not from that country or culture. So with that I realized, that I wouldn't catch it all. But, instead of feeling like an outsider, I felt as though I was together on the same side as these two mob con-men in a story of nun 'Hammery' . What a nice surprise! My cousin was on it too which kind of shocked me . All in all, it was as if this movie didn't miss a single trick, the ending was a perfect wrap-up for Charlie and Brian bringing along Faith for good measure on a wide body 747!! And dressed for the job, as airline stewardesses !!! Coffee, tea or peanuts?! This is a ten-star comedic bash of a good time! I recommend this classic to those who love English comedy. This is a real untarnished getaway English mob flick with a little Catholic confusion, at confession time and mayhem along the way, thrown in for good measure. What a comedy team-up, these two Eric and Robbie!! George Harrison was the one that enabled this to be made, I couldn't believe it, that good ole shy former Beatle, thanks again George.The rest of the cast was smashing as well. Good show(****)

Eric Idle, Robbie Coltraine, Janet Suzman - it should have been almost impossible to go wrong. Of course it has some funny moments - the scene in the showers when Robbie Coltraine echoes Lon Chaney Jr's ghastly werewolf line "I can't help myself" is hilarious. But ultimately the plot, script and direction are flat as a pancake and as tired as a 90 year old nun after 180 "Hail Mary"s. When I was a child, Carry On films filled this niche slightly better, which is a really sad indictment of a film with such a promising cast.