Are You Being Served? The Movie (1977)

Writers Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft managed something quite clever with this, the film version of the 1970s sitcom Are You Being Served? The idea of this cheery collection of comedy stereotypes--the pompous one, the vulgar one, the camp one, the shifty one, and so on--being confined within a department store was a master stroke, as it allowed any kind of situation to arise without the plot having to exceed the restrictions imposed by the set. How, then, to keep the same theme for the big screen without just offering the television series writ large? Simple: send the whole cast on holiday together but make sure they can't leave their hotel, a state of affairs contrived easily enough by throwing a guerilla uprising into the plot. So it is, then, that the staff of Grace Bros. descends on the Costa Plonka while the store is closed for refurbishment. There are all the usual jokes involving knickers, boobs, toilets, and gay sex (sometimes all at once), adding up to a good slice of nostalgic fun for anyone who was there when lapels really were that wide. --Roger Thomas

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 Funny Video....
I love the series and this was a extra added attraction. I gave it to someone who had never seen the series and they liked it a lot--- thought it very funny. Lots of inuendos, as per the series.


May 12, 2008

 Good Work
Good movie version. Funny. Good addition to your collection if you have the entire series. May 11, 2008

 My introduction to this......
hysterical funny sitcom was this movie.... Mrs Slocombe became an instant favorite, especially when she ran from an "admirer" on vacation..."Oh I`m not used to this sort of thing anymore... where do I run????... TO THE LEFT(in order to have her stalker on the right track) - I hope memory serves me well, at least I think her line was something like that...

I do understand its critics after seeing the series afterwards, but on whole... WOULD NEVER HAVE MISSED IT... the performers save the day.... May 10, 2008

 Are you Being Served , the Movie
Hated it.

Not funny at all.

Don't waste your money March 11, 2008

 OH. MY. GOD.
i wanted to like it. i love the tv show. but this movie is SO BAD it is embarrasing. i don't know why writers perry and croft thought this was ok. after seeing the script, the cast should have mutineed. there's nothing new here except a change of scenery. all the jokes, gags, and situations are lifted from various episodes of the tv show. the story is PIT.I.FUL. hopefully this review will help someone avoid purchasing this dvd. if it only helps one person, it will have been worth it. December 31, 2007

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