A Brilliant Conflict

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

This is British comedy at it's very best. After all these years I still laugh at the same things I have seen many times before.What makes it so good? Well of course first there is the writing which is top notch. Then there is the characters, each one a wonderful parody of a stereotype and many that would not pass the ridiculous political correctness of today's unfunny so called comedies.Rene, played brilliantly by Gordon Kaye finds himself in one ridiculous situation after another. Women fall for him (which is a joke in itself) and there are some often repeated but still very funny moments to savour.When his wife catches Rene in an embrace with another woman, his response "You stupid woman, can't you see ...etc. etc" is comedy gold.But as many others have said Arthur Bostrom as Officer Crabtree is just one of the best comedy creations in any series. A take off from Peter Sellers Inspecter Clouseau I am sure but still very very funny. "Gid moaning. I have bad nose. I have a massage from Michèlle"One I can watch over and over again. Brilliant!

This Show Is The Funniest British Show Of The 60's To 80's This Series Makes Men Behaving Badly This Has Such Unforgettable Lines Such As "Listen Very Carefully I Shall Say This Only Once", "Good Moaning", "This Was Not A Very Good Idea Von Smallhoausen", "What A Mistake To Make", "Swiftly & Sith Style" "...tler".There Are Some Characters That Get Replaced With Others Like Captain Geering Gets Replaced With Bertorelli.This Contains Some Jokes That Are Repeditive Like "The Fallen Madonna With The Big Boobies" Or Ones That I Have Only Seen Once Like "Flick The Gestapo...I Said Flick The Gestapo" All In All This Series Is Well Written, Well Acted, Well Edited & Well Done.

"'Allo 'Allo!" is an terrific comedy most commonly known because of its funny accents. Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft experimented with a storyline that continues through the episodes: the paintings for example. But still, every episode has a story of its own. 'Allo 'Allo! is set in Nazi occupied France, in a little town called Nouvion. Café owner René Artois is trying to get through the war by dealing with the Germans (and one Italian), the Gestapo, the Resistance, the Communist Resistance, his affairs with his waitresses and his wife. Besides that, there's also the "french-speaking" secret agent Crabtree, who is dressed as a gendarme. René is usually mixed up in some ridiculous plan of Michelle ("i shall say this only once") of the resistance to help the British airman, who are hiding in his café, to escape. In the series, fun is made out of almost everything involving the war. This is why there was a lot of criticism when the show first aired. I think we shouldn't take 'Allo 'Allo! so seriously, it's just a brilliant and timeless comedy.

This awful TV comedy was a parody of the quite excellent BBC television series made in the late 70's called Secret Army. As many of us know Allied Air crew who were shot down over occupied Europe during the war were sometimes spirited back to England with the help of the evasion lines in Western Europe. These men and women took the most horrendous risks in doing their work for virtually no pay. If caught, it was torture, the concentration camp and then the firing squad. Many in the resistance and the evasion lines died horribly. On this back drop a comedy series is made. This at best is in extremely poor taste and at worst is highly offensive. Many of us would probably not be alive today were it not for the work these people did. As for the show itself, the jokes were the same week after week after week ..... the 'good moaning', 'I shall say this only once', the gay German officer etc etc There are subjects I feel should be left alone without comedies being written about them ..... this is one. For those that disagree, how would you like to see a comedy set in a death camp ? Or for our American friends, a comedy set on Death row ???