SirGilbertUnderwood Reviews

The Class of Miss MacMichael (1978)

I note the other comments are all from across the pond...

[6/10 · 26 May 2007]

I wonder if there is an element of the comedy here not translating? I'm an Assistant Headteacher at a school in London, and if anyone has spent time teaching at an inner-city school they might see some similarities here... I certainly did. This is a 70s British film and deserves its place as a record of times past. Don't watch this expecting a deep or serious comment on the state of education or inner-city schools, watch it as one would watch a Carry-On film expecting to spend a considerable amount of time with your tongue in your cheek. This is not serious cinema and should not be treated as such, this is a lighthearted (but politically incorrect - haven't we moved a long way?), romp. Lighten up!

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

Awful

[1/10 · 3 May 2005]

I feel (after waiting 20 years) that this is a huge disappointment.

This film is for people who couldn't be bothered to read the radio scripts or the books. It is 'thin' and an extremely poor attempt to create a new story from an existing one.

I grew up with this wonderful creation, but all this achieved was to make me very angry. The original was filled with subtlety and intelligent humour, this has neither. I am frankly appalled. DNA wrote and rewrote his ideas, I would hope that what we have here is the first draft and that if the great man had lived, he would have rewritten this another 1000 times at least. Either that or his script was destroyed by Disney and their flunkies.