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Confessions from a Holiday Camp, a review by Jimmy

                   

Title: Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977)

Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Cohen (Confessions of a Pop Performer)         
Rating: 18 (UK)
Length: 1h25
Video: Widescreen
Audio: English
Subtitles: English and Dutch

Stars:
Robin Askwith (Confessions of a Window Cleaner)
Anthony Booth (Confessions of a Window Cleaner)
Bill Maynard (Confessions of a Window Cleaner)
Doris Hare (Confessions of a Pop Performer)
Sheila White (Confessions of a Window Cleaner)

Plot:
The amorous adventurer Timothy Lee (Robin Askwith) is back and having the time of his life as the Entertainments Officer at a holiday camp.

Seductions are the order of the day as he 'Rises' to the occasion and organises the beauty contest. Soon a bevy of babes are queing up to bestow special favours in the hope of improving their chances of winning.

This movie is the last of the series and they have made some changes to it. Askwith continue is good job and Maynard continue to have is fun one liner. The good news in the cast is that Linda Hayden is back and she's so beautifull. She plays a different character and at first it was weird, but is not hard to get over it (harder for the bad french accent), but we see much more of her. The situations continue to be funny when they involve Timmy and the girl (the swimming pool and the live radio broadcast especially).

But some things don't work for me. Sidney (Anthony Booth) is not his own boss this time and except shouting at Timmy, he doesn't do very much (in fact he is waste in the film). Chidren are present in the camp and I don't watch those film to see some child doing stupid child thing. Worst than all, the movie have a pie fight (I don't like that in Dawn of the Dead too, it's too childish).

Not that I find it bad, but the change was a big mistake (the next one was cancel, because of the box-office). 

Rating :

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The set is a good one. Only one movie is really bad. It doesn't have any extra and it's disappointing a little. A commentary track with Askwith and Booth on the first movie (I'm sure that they have some good anecdote to tell), a retrospective documentary with the cast or the 4 trailers would have been welcome. If you are equip to read DVD from all zone, this is a good set to buy.

(From The little known movie review depot on March 8th, 2008)

The Back-up Plan, a review by addicted2dvd

The Back-up Plan (2010/United States) Trailer |IMDb |Wikipedia | CBS Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (United States) Director: Alan Poul Writing: Kate Angelo (Writer) Length: 104 min. Video: Widescreen 2.35:1 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio: 5.1 Subtitles: English

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Stars:
Jennifer Lopez as Zoe
Alex O'Loughlin as Stan
Michaela Watkins as Mona
Eric Christian Olsen as Clive
Anthony Anderson (1970) as Playground Dad

Plot:Extras:

• Scene Access
• Bonus Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Outtakes/Bloopers
• BD-Live
• movieIQ

i enjoyed this one quite a bit. It has a fun story line and there is a few cast members here that I am familiar with. The main male lead Alex O'Laughlin I know from a few different TV series... currently Hawaii 5-0. Then for a blast from the past... Tom Bosley from Happy Days and Linda Lavin from Alice are both in this one as well. While like most romantic comedies I found this to be highly on the predictable side...there is a lot of fun moments leading up to what you know is coming. I found it to be well worth the time put in to watch it.



(From What Movies I Been Watching on December 30th, 2016)

The IT Crowd: Version 3.0 - (mini) marathon, a review by Tom

02. Are We Not Men? (2008-11-28)
Writer: Graham Linehan (Writer)
Director: Graham Linehan
Cast: Chris O'Dowd (Roy), Richard Ayoade (Moss), Katherine Parkinson (Jen), Matt Berry (Douglas), Paul Bazely (Michael), Cavan Clerkin (Dan), Jon Foster (Barry), Derek Ezenagu (Luke), John Willie Hopkins (Postman Harry)

Another great episode! Really funny what Moss did to hide from the police.

Rating:

(From The IT Crowd: Version 3.0 - (mini) marathon on July 31st, 2009)