10/10
Keep off the grass?
20 October 2006
Warning: Spoilers
No, you will more likely keep off the chair rolling under the table.

A gangster topic, a space topic, a war topic, a supermarket topic, a burlesque topic or a hospital one - Mr Norman Wisdom did it all. And did them all with heart. This movie sticks to the gangster topic. Norman Pitkin delivers again. In "Up in the World" he has quite a bunch of hilarious scenes: dressing up as a woman twice (!), throwing bombs with tear gas (!), performing Rock-and-Roll (!), escaping from a prison on a stormy day using a grotesquely long ladder (!), etc. My favourite one is with the Rock-and-Roll dance. Hope, there are enough exclamation marks to rate this movie rather high.

Such comedies are fading away in today's hectic cybernetic world. To me they are the best of the best, because they remain childish and amusing in a very pleasant way. This kind of comfortable family entertainment is being almost lost and completely forgotten. That's atrocity.

To give it the highest mark would be very subjective, but it's my choice and my advice: 10 out of 10. Thanks for attention.
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