Last of the Summer Wine
Last of the Summer Wine
TV-14 | 04 January 1973 (USA)
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  • Reviews
    Solemplex

    To me, this movie is perfection.

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    TrueHello

    Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

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    Humbersi

    The first must-see film of the year.

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    Kayden

    This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

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    Dave

    This West Yorkshire-set BBC sitcom is about old men who behave in a juvenile manner. It ran from 1973-2010 - longer than any other sitcom in the world has ever done.If the aim was to show the elderly still enjoying their lives to the full, then that could have been done in a much better way. This show is just one bad joke repeated hundreds of times - these old men routinely behave like kids. That's just pathetic and embarrassing, rather than funny.

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    ian1000

    Incredibly Last of The Summer Wine first appeared in 1973. Many hold that Fawlty Towers was so special partly because it appeared just 12 times, and that multiple seasons of the Torqay sitcom would have diluted its appeal. If a real world example was ever needed, then this tired old show is surely it.The writing is lazy, there is no attempt at a contrived story line, or multiple events with a final scene interaction.Insiders at the BBC are embarrassed by this show - and the discerning viewer can see why.Apologists for this lame old show will describe it as "gentle comedy"; scripts created with a gentle sprinkling of minor laughs.Time to retire it.

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    Mark Hone

    Like many people I occasionally turn on the TV on a Sunday evening and come face to face with Last of the Summer Wine. With a shock I realise that I am not watching an episode from years ago but part of a new series of the show. Not that it makes much difference because all episodes of the programme are essentially identical. The writer Roy Clarke deserves some sort of award for endlessly recycling the same material and persuading the BBC to film it. He did a good job of this on 'Open all Hours' with Ronnie Barker , which ran for a few series but he's been doing it with LOTSW for 32 incredible years. The show now provides a cosy pension for much-loved British character actors like Jean Alexander and (incredibly) Burt Kwouk, Kato in the 'Pink Panther' films. Of course nearly all the original cast are dead and many of their replacements too. I always felt that Sunday evenings were morbid but there is no better reminder of mortality than the sight of Bill 'Compo' Owen's son, who I remember as a juvenile lead in a kids' TV show 'Freewheelers', appearing in the show as an old man himself.

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    patjeffo

    When we first started to watch this show we were in our 30's which put the actors at around 50 years of age, As I am sure most of you "younguns" out there of 30 or under will testify, 50 is an age you yourselves will never be, just as we thought then, how wrong we were, Time shoots by so very quickly that here we are 30 odd years later and still avid fans. Last of the Summer Wine was and still is wonderful viewing if you prefer your television to not be peppered with unnecessary expletives nor have endless closeups of moving bed-clothes and sundry body parts. This was a story of 3 middle-aged men who still had their wits and humour about them and most of all loved to laugh. The fact that you knew in advance the slide down the hill on a tray or running with a kite being pulled by Wesleys "jeep" would always end in disaster for one or the other of the trio was part of the attraction and still is. Viewing the programme now with many new actors in the cast, due mainly to the demise of the original cast members, is just a reflection of life and death but the humour, fun and sheer joy of living is still there despite the fact that Norman Clegg still professes to find it difficult to talk to women or for that matter anyone except his close compatriots. Now in our mid 60's my husband and I still love this programme and will always watch the repeats which are, fortunately for us, now running on cable TV. A toast to the Summer Wine-- Long may it Last-.

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