Often trailers are misleading about movies, but the trailer to this movie is specifically misleading in three ways:
1. Bob Hoskins, when caught stripping at the bequest of his new hires, is not caught in his undershorts. We have full-frontal nudity.
2. The naked girls aren't dancing naked girls.
3. She doesn't inherit the theater, she goes and buys it.
We saw this in a grand old theater in Canada, during a rainy Saturday matinee. The room was illuminated for all the blue hair glowing. And the jokes about Americans were especially well laughed at. That's okay. I'm an American that laughs at Americans all the time.
A fun romp with some naked girls, posed and as still as a painting, which was the point. Funny to see Christopher Guest playing such an upper-cruster, considering the other British accent he perfected in Nigel.
The one very dramatic incident wasn't handled well, in my opinion. It was either true, in which case I would have played it differently, or it was a writer's conceit, in which case it was emotionally manipulative.
But that small blemish doesn't stop from enjoying the fine acting throughout. I may not be the demographic it was going for (measuring by my audience, it was going for a demo that actually lived through the war), but I had a good time nonetheless.
Where we saw it: Movie Theater | We deign to rate it: 82 outta 100