ARE YOU BEING SERVED THE MOVIE

ARE YOU BEING SERVED (THE MOVIE)

I love this show...yeah I know...as much as I enjoy the TV show, the movie doesn't hold up as well. For one thing it's basically the same lame shtick stretched out to 90 minutes, without the laugh track in the background the jokes really sink, it's like trying to make a witty comment and end up with a blank stare from you audience.

In this movie, the staff of Grace Brothers Department store go on a holiday to Costa Plonka while the department store is closed for renovation. They end up in a dumpy hotel owned by Don Carlos Bernardo played by Andrew Sachs (Manuel from "Fawlty Towers), later there is a revolution going on in this foreign country and the staff end up as hostages.

Each character are put through the same kind of jokes as they do on the show, like Captain Peacock and Mr. Lucas were up to the usual no good to get Miss Brahms to sleep with them, as expected they end up seducing Mrs. Slocombe by mistake. There is a big gun battle towards the end with lots of explosions to justified this being a movie over being just another episode.

I can't think of any TV show has had a successful transition to the big screen, unless perhaps "Star Trek". But as far as making a regular TV series out of a movie, I think any one of the films that has been posted on this blog would make a great weekly serial.