Very well executed

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Awful, truly awful. As a little boy in the 1970's there was very little on TV, but we had to endure this. Even before the concept of political correctness had emerged I found the relentless smutty innuendo and gay suggestion dull, repetitive and predictable.What a waste- and all this from a time when Fawlty Towers was being produced. There was other stuff on TV to keep an eight-year old entertained. How this ran for a decade is beyond comprehension. I guess it's Americans giving this show great reviews- just what must they think of us Brits?

Are You Being Served was a sitcom made in Britan that lasted 10 Seasons mainly focusing on a department store. People do seem to have a lot of nostalgia for this show and it did define itself an audience at the time. However, I don't really find it that good.The main premise for this show is to take the Ladies and Gentlemen's department from a departmental store an hi-jinx ensues. Sometimes with new situations and others it's a similar rehash of the same situation (such as Young Mr Grace having a whacked out idea, they go along with it, it doesn't go well, it all goes back to normal).I can see that there is an audience for this show. For the first few seasons it wasn't that bad. It was gaining and maintaining an identity. However, the big problem I have is the more the show went on, the more recycled and tired the whole thing seemed to get.So what is the humour. Mostly there are your standard double entendres, events going on at the time such as a bad economy and constant strikes and pop cultural references. The reason why I don't like the events going on at the time and pop cultural references is that they're dated to the extent of them not being funny and the double entendres were okay at first. Then (like I said) they started recycling them. I'm serious Mrs Slocombe makes double entendres about her cat because she refers to it as her "pussy" and Mr Humphries is usually respondent to homosexual double entendres (which actually weren't funny to begin with) just to name a few.To name a complaint I have, I know I'm nitpicking when I say this but in the last few seasons we hardly see these characters do their job. I know, it's a nitpick but for a show about a department store there are some episodes where we never see them working.Then there are the replacement cast members. I know Arthur Borough died and replacements were the only way to go and sometimes they did get some decent comedic actors to take his place but the problem I have is replacing Trevor Banister with the guy who plays Mr Spooner. All the original cast members, while this show wasn't exactly my humour it's very clear that these people have a sense of comic timing and are somewhat decent comedic actors. I don't get any of that with Mr Spooner (I use the characters name because I'm too lazy to look up what his real name is) he looks more as if he's going through the motions than anything else.So Are You being Served isn't that great of a show. It just becomes repetitive and recycles jokes and story lines. I do get the feeling that these people can be funny. It's just it's not my humour. I guess if you lived in the 70's you would like this but to a modern audience it isn't anything spectacular.

And this show goes to prove that. Now you know that a sitcom is bound to have a fair share of oddball characters. This one has plenty of them. Enter, the staff of Great Britain's "Grace Brother's" Department store--perhaps the wackiest lot on the isle. Grace Brothers spares no expense to bring you goofy promotions, mucked-up display units, and bizarre situations. Then there are the employees--they aren't as normal as they seem either. For example there's the aloof Captain Peacock, who has quite the practice on the side-often with secretaries. Then there is Mrs. Slocomb, senior saleswoman, who has a cat, which she refers to constantly by another name. Mr. Humphreys, by most accounts swings two directions. The dopey Mr. Rumbold and Young Mr. Grace, who run the company spend more time in confusion than any real managment work. Other odd birds like stocky Mr. Tebbs, insinuating Mr. Maash, cockney-ditz Miss Brahams, cranky Mr. Grainger, jolly Mr. Harmon, and the ever nasty canteen manageress. These characters manage to get themselves into ever oddball situation percievable with humor that is comparable to All in the Family, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. A definite A+. So serve yourself...Grace Brothers is waiting...just beware of the disply units bearing steel wool...

On my two visits to the USA I have always been bemused that Are You Being Served is always on one of the channels, OK, it may only be on one channel, but the perception that it seems to be looped.As a kid I had to sit through episode after episode as we only had three channels and this was Sunday night comedy I think. I just didn't get it, I have never got it. I have browsed through the comments here and noticed our American cousins are all rolling around just thinking about it, never mind actually watching it, maybe it will prove to much and cause the odd coronary.The comedy is slapstick and playground innuendo. I have no problem with escapism and sometimes I don't want to relate to characters, but when as an 8 year old child I feel pity and superiority something is wrong.Maybe it was written with export in mind, British comedy is more often subtle, character assassination. It is not even that American comedy does not cross over into Britain (though you do tend to kill it dead by making 7,000 episodes, dead horses and flogging).But, hey, you like it, it very rarely gets played in the UK now, so on behalf of the UK public, you can keep this dull, ridiculous, not funny, boring rubbish just for yourselves.I also need to know how they managed to stay open without ever selling anything? Sorry, but this needed a reality check!