Best movie of this year hands down!

Powerful

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.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

OK the standards dropped in the last few years he was on ITV, but from 1969 to 1984 the Benny Hill Show was generally hilarious. Audience figures of 21 million at times showed how much Benny was held in the viewers affections.Basically his mixture of comedy songs, send ups of adverts and television shows, silent sketches, female dancers, and the chase scene at the end was innocent and good hearted fun. For all Mary Whitehouse might have moaned about the double entendres and sexy dancers, Benny never resorted to foul language and graphic references to sex like the alternative brigade that hated him. The show was fun for all age groups and as Benny only made a handful of shows a year, the standards were always high. A new show was always a highlight for me and repeats still make me laugh now.

Oh my god! what was i living under!!? During the Chinese New Year reunion in my granny's home and found my uncle and my cousins glued to the TV... so after greeting everyone i decided to go see for myself what was it they were watching... i found the DVD cover "The Naughty Early Years BENNY HILL, The Complete First Season" oh, sounds... naughty... but the end result, it wasn't naughty at all!!! i thought it was tame and i loved that bumbling comedian i saw! Benny hill is Genius and im proud to announce him my FAVE comedian from now on!!! so i borrowed the DVD and i still watch it till today... never getting tired of his silly and hilarious parodies, his chase, Fred Scuttle, that silly smirk and all his expressions, everything!!! so i did my research and what i read broke my heart into pieces... benny hill is dead? how can it be? a heart attack? alone, in his apartment? but what hurt me the most was people even attempted to dig up his coffin just for gold! and if i was one of the girls he proposed to, i would have said yes!!! thats how much i adore him!!! the poor comic genius definitely didn't deserve all that toxic comments people made on his show coz they would be hypocrites to say his show was politically incorrect... and most definitely didn't deserve an ending like that... but he can rest easy coz he has a fan in me and ill bring more for him!!! Rest in peace, Alfie

This is one of those great comedies from the 70s. It is a sketch show but has little in the way of an extended plot line, most episodes featuring entirely new characters and situations. That is one reason it is worth watching. Sure, some might think it's a tad vulgar, but Benny does indeed show brilliance with his lyrics and rhymes, and the visual humour is very funny. The characters themselves, a constant change of new ones and some recurring ones, are quite hilarious. Half of it is filmed in the studio/audience room itself whilst half is filmed outdoors at particular places such as parks/streets etc. The music and background music is quite 'catchy' and certainly gives the show an upbeat feel. The fact Benny's characters never get the girl they want to just makes it more amusing. And of course one can't forget the effects, using television as a form of almost magic trick like effects, there are some scenes which defy physics. Quite certainly the effects themselves are worthy of viewing.

Mention 'Benny Hill' to most people and the first thing they'll think off is the great man himself, a lecherous grin on his face, fleeing from scantily-clad girls to the strains of 'Yakety Sax'. Yet his Thames show, which spanned an incredible twenty years, was about far more than mere sexism. Nobody did spoofs better than Benny Hill; when he took off 'Sale Of The Century' starring Nicholas Parsons, for a long time afterwards it was impossible to view the real thing without laughing. He also spoofed 'Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?' with himself playing both the Burton and Taylor roles, Tennessee Williams, 'I Claudius', French language movies, and 'The Collector' starring Terence Stamp. So his show wasn't as crass and mindless as some would have us think. Yes, he went out of fashion in the '80's, but should not have been sacked. The alternative comedians who railed against Benny and helped end his career have yet to match him for sheer entertainment value. Besides, Hill did not humiliate women as much as Ben Elton did with his awful 'Maybe, Baby'.