Clockwise

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Summary: Yes Cleese!
Review: It doesn't have much in the way of penetrating insights into religion, but this frantic Frayn/Cleese race across East Anglia is as good a transposition of farce to the silver screen as we've ever seen. The pace is kept just taut enough throughout (something A Fish Called Wanda never managed) and the roll-call of British character actors is dished out liberally without ever turning into an "ooh look, it's him off of Kinvig!" distraction, most notably Geoffrey Palmer, Penelope Wilton and Stephen Moore.

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Summary: Classic Cleese
Review: John Cleese at his frenetic long-legged gawky best, complete with a wife who doesn't understand him. He plays a school headmaster obsessed with time, who ends up being late for an important event. Along the way he ends up embarassingly entangled with one of his teenage girl students, and the whole thing proceeds in a glorious series of events from bad to worse. Great fun if you're a Cleese fan, and probably impenetrably strange if you're not!

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Summary: Sublime
Review: John Cleese is at his best in this jolly picture. Wonderful scrip and actor's staff. Five Stars!

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Summary: John Cleese at his finest!
Review: John Cleese is the very precise, orderly and punctual headmaster of a common British public school. As such, he rules the school, students and faculty as strictly as possible. Due to his managerial excellence, he wins an award for best Headmaster of the year (a great honor coming from a public school,) and this is where the fun begins! In order to receive the award, he has to attend the award ceremony off in the middle of the English countryside, and getting there is all the fun! (Anything that can go wrong...)

This is, hands down, one of the best movies ever made, and I've been waiting years for it to come out on DVD! It's physically impossible not to incredibly enjoy Clockwise, especially if you're a Fawlty Towers fan. I remembered nearly every single scene in this film from when I saw it as a teenager over 15 years ago! It's that funny. You simply MUST see this movie! (And DVD is the best way to do it.) Enjoy!

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Summary: Disappointment
Review: John Cleese seemed a bit off his game in this one. He didn't have that spark he had in A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures (two of my all-time favorites). I kept waiting for it to get funny and it didn't happen. Mostly it just reminded me of uncomfortable times when I was running late and everything kept going wrong.

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Summary: CLASSIC BRITISH COMEDY
Review: John Cleesec comes close to re-creating his famous role as Basil fawlty in Fawlty Towers, and is hilarious in doing so. He plays a headmaster who is always firmly punctual but when he is due at a conference in Norwich and he boards the wrong train he is plunged to a cross-country adventure with a school girl and a former girlfriend hot on their pursuit. A simple plot unravels a series of sketches that are fine blends of comedy, complimented by fine performances from the cast. John Cleese is manic from the word go but he never fails to amuse. The razor sharp scripts are witty and perfectly timed. Other familiar faces in the cast include alison Steadman, Penelope Wilton and Joan Hickson. A fine British comedy classic.

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Summary: Specially indicated if maniac of punctuality (as me).
Review: Not five stars because it lacks rhytm in the end, but still a very good/funny work from Cleese. (Not as good as his Fawlty Towers TV series or A Fish called Wanda film ...thought), but then the script must be good to get the best from him.
If a Clesse fan well worth seeing.

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Summary: very good, but verrrry british
Review: Personally, I loved this movie. Be warned, however, it is very British (e.g. very dry). More so even than the Python movies. Just when are they going to get it out on DVD?

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Summary: Cleese at his best
Review: This is a must if you like John Cleese. Whilst the script is by theatre writer Michael Frayn, the script is so full of Cleeseisms it could have been written for him (or perhaps Cleese made some revisions). This is a contemporary of Monty Python's Meaning Of Life, and the headmaster in this film would seem to be the Comprehensive School cousin of Cleese's Headmaster in The Meaning Of Life. The supporting cast is a delight, with Joan Hickson giving a wonderfully entertaining portrayal of a dotty old lady worried about who would inherit her late mother's sherry glasses. Much of the cast had featured with Cleese in Fawlty Towers, Geoffrey Palmer, Pat Keen, Ann Way, and if you look closely you can see future Eastenders Leslie Schofield and John Bardon in small roles, and Operation Good Guys' Mark Burdis as a schoolboy. The film is at the same time a joy and a pain to watch. Just as you think poor old Mr Stimpson (Cleese's character) is getting somewhere, he is frustrated by something outside his control. Anyone who gets stressed watching Fawlty Towers ought to avoid this.

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Summary: Awesome
Review: This is so funny. It has a lot of good jokes and... Who am I kidding it's just hialrious to see how messed up this guy gets. END