Guest House Paradiso

Plot synopsis:
Richard "Richie" Richard (Mr Twat/Thwaite) and Edward "Eddie" Elizabeth Ndingombaba Hitler (Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson) run the worst guest house in the United Kingdom ("You're not in any of the guidebooks. Nobody for miles around - an oasis of calm. Even the peasants in the village denied its existence."), neighbouring a poorly maintained nuclear power station. The chef is not only unable to cook, but is both an idiotic drunkard and an illegal immigrant and eventually leaves due to not being paid and worse of it the waiter is not to be seen as Richie believe that he's in the hospital ("Have you seen Pascal? Oh, damn. I'll have to phone the psychiatric hospital, he's probably checked himself in again!") but obviously not being paid too or insulted by his boss. The guests (one of them played by Bill Nighy) are thoroughly dissatisfied by the poor service, and all decide to leave, except for one "Mrs Foxfur" (Fenella Fielding) who lives there.
Life seems bleak for Eddie and Richie, but things seemingly improve with the arrival of the "Nice family", with Simon Pegg playing the father. Furthermore, the famous Italian actress "Gina Carbonara" (Hélène Mahieu) comes to stay in the grotty house while seeking safety from her ill-tempered fiancé Gino Bolognese (Vincent Cassel). However Gino does eventually find her at the guest house as Eddie and Richard had put her name up in lights outside in order to attract more guests. Later, Richie finds some fish, which fell off a military lorry heading away from the nuclear power station. Richie and Eddie don't realise that the fish had been contaminated by a radiation leak until after they've fed them to the guests.
Hours later, with everybody violently ill from the radioactive fish, the guests are all projectile vomiting at high velocity and in huge quantities — all except for Gina Carbonara, apparently the only guest who did not eat the fish. In an act of spontaneous solidarity (given that no other guests have had any contact with Gino), every guest projectile vomits on him at once, forcing him backwards, out through a window and off a cliff edge into the ocean. Government agents arrive to hush up the incident and give Eddie and Richie ten million pounds, first class tickets to the Caribbean and new identities for both the duo and Gina in exchange for their silence over the leak. The three accept the offer, and head to the Caribbean. In the film's final scene, Eddie winks to the camera after commenting "How lucky he was the only fatality. Otherwise there'd be a moral question mark hanging over our escape."

Tags: psychedelic, comedy

Review:
I saw this when it first came out, and found it to be a work of some genius; but I must confess I was clearly in the minority at the time.For me, the progressive lunacy of the proprietors of Guest House Paradiso just gets better and better throughout the film, with one of the most hilarious climaxes to a film ever.But I wouldn't recommend it to Mother.Lovers of gross-out comic book style humour will appreciate this movie; there are subtle jokes hidden away, but they are usually quickly flattened by a comedy frying pan.
A sign of what to expect in this film came when I spotted that this was the first (and probably the last) film to have in its credits a "Vomit Technician".In what is a couple of hours of silly gags, hilarious violence and excellent slapstick humour.This film was just what you'd expect from the Bottom boys, and it is great to see them back in their best form after Rik Mayall's life threatening accident.Richie (Mayall) and Eddie (Edmondson) are too similar to their Bottom characters, if we can have any criticism at all, and Edmondson does a surprisingly good job in directing the film also.This film has already spawned the predictable comparisons to Fawlty Towers that just aren't there, and the Guest House Paradiso itself  is hardly Torquay!Watch out for some excellently crafted dialogue amongst all the violence and mayhem.If you don't like Bottom you'll probably hate this - but I loved it..
I know what David Lynch is going on about, okay?The only trouble is that, for some bizarre reason, the sight of Rik Mayall pretending to kick Adrian Edmondson in the groin (accompanied by an over the top crunching sound effect) never, ever fails to make me laugh like an idiot who's just seen an ex-Doctor Who slip over on a banana skin.So excited was I at Richie and Eddie's leap to the celluloid fantasy of the big screen ('ere, 'ark at 'im) that I arrived an hour and five minutes early.
Well, I don't know, but it did.Hysterical laughter ensued right from the off (that's right, I even laughed at the close up of Richie sleeping that starts the film) and didn't stop for, ooh, some time (half way through the ending titles, I think).As movie sandwiches go, this one had a good spread, but had some very good chunks added to the mixture.
It did lack Rik and Ade's usual bitter nastiness - just look how many Bottom escapades ended with Richie and Eddie's untimely deaths.Still, a good note to end on: It's bloody funny.
This is probably the funniest thing I have ever seen - from start to finish it was perfect in timing, atmosphere, punch lines, background music, fighting sequences and every other possible aspect you can think of.
However, if you watch it without knowing (or liking?) the type of comedy Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson has done before, you might not think it's funny at all - but I REALLY can't understand those who dislike it - THIS IS HUMOUR FOLKS!!!
How he got from talking to a love Goddess to blowing up in an oven while still having the underwear on, I have no idea.In the long run, yes this is definitely one of those "plot doesn't matter" films, so sit back relax and take an hour and a half of Ade and Rik nearly killing each other while running a hotel (it makes Fawlty Towers' service look like The Waldorf-Astoria).
What a pity the film that went with it failed to live up to the promise.I hate to pan Guest House Paridiso and I am indebted to Rik Mayall (Richard Twat) and Adrian Edmondson (Eddie Elizabeth Ndingombaba) for many years of laughter through their appealing television series, be it the invention of The Young Ones (1982-1984), the sitting room plays of Bottom (1991-1995), or even solo work, such as Rik in the New Statesman (1988-1993).
Some of the ideas, such a hotel next to a nuclear reactor with a childrens' swing hanging over a cliff face, are very, very funny, but ultimately the frenetic pace is stolen, the two constantly looking for a studio audience that isn't there, and all the "dead laugh" areas patched up with incidental "comedy" music that would have been dated in a Carry On film two decades ago.Paridiso's brand of puerile, sadistic, perverse humour IS funny, and I feel sure it will make you laugh ...
Guest House Paradiso is Rik's and Ade's finest hour, given the big screen treatment it is way better than Bottom.
As if that wasn't reason enough to avoid it, the owners, Eddie and Richard, are about the least competent or hospitable people in the hotel trade  making Basil Fawlty looking like the best manager in the world.
This is bad enough but things are only going to get more complicated when an Italian film star, rubber swimwear and a dish called "fish surprise" come into play.It is not always possible to say that a film is bad or good because sometimes they are aimed so specifically at a particular audience that if you're not in that group then it is likely that you will hate it while they think it is fantastic.
Of course you could fall into a very small group of people who find uninspired crudity funny but, if that is you then you probably have more important things to sort out than to be watching this film.
Those who like Bottom will love this but I would be surprised if anyone else found much to enjoy in this thing; the violent and crude slapstick is basically copied from that TV show, which is a problem because, as you might guess, I'm not a fan of it at all.The narrative here is pathetic though and makes Bottom's plots about sex etc look like highly polished works of literature.
Its comedy factor isn't as great as some of the earlier television episodes however it doesn't leave any of the best jokes out.Some may consider this a poor movie but befoure you judge it be sure to check out the television series first.
This movie has great acting and has a hilarious setting, overall this movie is pure bladder bursting fun and easily deserves a 9/10.I think you'll have to be British to like it though cause Americans have a different sense of humour?.
The slapstick starts off funny but eventually becomes a bit boring, with only the perverted sex jokes to keep things humorous.The end of the movie (the 'green' scenes, for those of you who've seen it) was...
It was one joke repeated about thirty times, followed by an abrupt ending that made no sense (which didn't bother me) and wasn't funny (which did).To sum up, I was sorely disappointed by this movie.
i had been looking for this film for so long before i found it, i had seen it when i was younger and loved it, after my second viewing i still loved it and i still do.this is a love/hate film, if you like bottom, young ones, the comic strip, then you will find this funny.
It is not an award winner by any means but if you just want good wholesome slapstick then this is it!the film lacks the quality of the TV series and this is usually the case with films but it still has enough material to keep you laughing even if a lot of the jokes are pretty similar to their previous work.yes, the humour is a little childish and not to everyone's taste but sometimes you just need that in a film..
the plot is that Eddie and Ritchie run a hotel named guest house Paradise but not all goes right for them as customers leave until a famous actress come to stay they try there best to impress her but not all well go right this is a upbringing to British cinema so buy this and you will wet yourself with laughter.
They are desperately in need of cash and when a film star in hiding comes to stay their luck just might be in.To watch this movie and not become utterly bored or disgusted you first need to like the humour.
I cant see how some people cant find this film funny i saw the end of it on Sky Movies in 2001 thought i would by the DVD since then i have laughed my balls of with lines like Rik Mayalls laugh "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA" and Eddies "Hello night porter" when they never get any phone calls overall i think this film is very very funny..
Yes it's the Guest house paradiso, you don't need a watch in paradiso, time stops here.A hotel run by Richie and Eddie sounds fun, what could go wrong?
It had me literally crying with laughter several times ("I trust you slept well?" "actually, we had a bit of a rough night." "ah, the perils of adultery.").admittedly, the ending is a little flat, but still has its moments (the booger ball's obvious fake spalsh as flew into the ocean, "beach house paradiso").personally, i think this is the funniest movie i've ever seen.10/10.
With the best will in the world these guys are more used to a theatre style of physical comedy and their, and possibly more Ade Edmundson's, inexperience shows.Ade Edmundson directed and for one reason or another Rik Mayall has well over 70% of the screen time.
So I really think they were giving the film their best shot without concern for their own egos.As usual the supporting characters are played as normal human beings accidentally walking into the madness but Simon Pegg, who we all now know to be no small comedy talent himself, is a little off putting in retrospect as I couldn't help but expect him to have some laughs of his own rather than play victim throughout.One portion of the film intercuts a Richie and Eddie scene with what appears to be the rape of the main female character.
One day they get a special guest which will change their lifes forever.Those who have seen "Bottom" recognise Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson as the funny guys who love to make nasty jokes and kick each other in the nuts.
Now after three series and three live stage shows it hits the silver screen.Guest House Paradiso is essentially the TV show on the big screen (they even re-use some of the TV show jokes at times) even if they have renamed the characters surnames; they are still the funny characters Richie and Eddie.
The rest of the film is made up of Richie's perverted antics and his cartoon style fights with Eddie that are really funny and over the top.If you haven't figured out already I am a big fan of Bottom and I loved this film but was a little let down by its abrupt ending.
Anyone who has seen the TV series 'Bottom' will be familiar with the characters of Richie and Eddie (despite the surname changes, still the same characters, and to be honest the surname changes provide some of the funnier gags - I mean a hotel manager called Richard Twat (pronounced 'Thwaite', of course...) can hardly fail to raise a smile).If you are unlucky enough to have never seen the series, then you've missed out on a gem of British comedy - now is the perfect time to see what you've been missing.
OK so the film definitely won't have universal appeal, but if you can still laugh at toilet humour then you'll be right at home with this.Near enough from beginning to end I was in stitches, in fact I can't recall the last time a cinema was so full of laughter (no mean feat considering there were only about 8 people at the screening).
Quite the opposite, and it's exactly the same formula that works in Guest House Paradiso.Mayall and Edmondson have apparently said that this isn't actually a 'Bottom' film, but I for one can't work out why they'd want to say that even if it WERE true.
Otherwise however I found the film to be an enjoyable ninety minutes, wittily written and with more than just a sprinkling of laughs.I think most Bottom fans will like this film quite a lot, but that anyone else (especially those who don't know what Bottom is) shouldn't read too much into what other people have said about it.
Guest House Paradiso is a funny movie, in fact at times it reaches levels of hilarity.
You'll just have to see the movie to understand the context of the gag.On a personal note I am happy to see Rik Mayall back on form after his near fatal accident.Top class for a comedy and on those grounds (considering the poor ending).7.5/10.
Ten years ago, Rik Mayall's mad stare and Ade's idiocy were funny, now they are just annoying.The film had promise - though the most horrendous hotel in Britain is not a new idea - but failed to deliver.
But for a 80' film, I think it's only worth watching for hardcore Rik and Ade fans..
I think Guest House Paradiso is THE best UK slapstick film of all time.
This, however - this has nothing.In case you are totally unaware, "Guest House Paradiso" is essentially a bringing to the big-screen of a riotous British sitcom of the early 1990's entitled "Bottom", which starred the same twosome who here bring this 1999 effort to life named Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson.
'Guest House Paradiso,' or, as was added later on the video box, 'The Bottom Movie.' I've been a fan of 'Bottom' (and before that 'The Young Ones') ever since it first crawled onto our televisions screens.
I absolutely love this film, regardless of how many times I watch it - it continues to make me laugh.
The series 'Bottom' was hilarious, but unfortunately they just don't seem to be able to carry their success onto the big screen.At times I felt that Rik had run out of script and was ad-libbing,and in general the film seems to be a sub-standard Fawlty Towers meets Bottom.The only truly funny moments were a lengthy Bottomesque fight scene and, to a lesser extent, Eddie on his moped.Even worse than Bottom Live 2..
Being a HUGE fan of the bottom series i was really looking forward to the release of this film.I was eagerly anticipating a laugh a minute roller-coaster ride......alas.Where to start on this mess?i think its a good start to say that its hardly richie and eddie on our screens in the first place as none of the jokes and one liners they usually deliver so well are funny.I was still waiting for the first laugh after a good 20 minutes of viewing.Many aspects of the story were pathetic and it was as if the film was full of those bad moments they rehearsed and decided to leave out of the final cut.The overall sets and atmosphere surrounding the film is dark and dingy which i suppose is good if they want to portray the 'terrible' guest house the 2 buffoons attempt to run,but to me its just puts an even higher dampener on a sorry state of filming that should never have been created.The acting,at times,is pathetic.Fenella Fielding is wasted as the loony Mrs Foxfur and i've seen Simon Pegg have much better outings.I'd recommend Guest House Paradiso to anybody who is blind drunk because they might appreciate the terrible puns much more.But to any bottom fan who hasn't seen this film and is expecting true richie and eddie action you have been warned.
If you like Rik & Ade's series 'Bottom' then you won't be disappointed with this film.
I Think That IMDb Has To Be Split Up Because Not Every Movie Can Be Judged On The Same Level(Compare This To Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy...You Can't Can You?), This Film Was Always Going To Be Stupid(Explain How Richard Blew Up In An Oven And Still Survived), Since Adrian Edmondson And Rick Mayall Asked Each other "What If Bottom Became A Movie?" This Is Another One Of Those "Plot Doesn't Matter" Movies Where You Only Watch It For The Laughs, The Funniest Part Is The Entire Sequence When Richard Was In Womens Underwear Running Around The Hotel, Name Any Part Out Of Those 10 Minutes; The Italian Love Goddess Movie Star Seeing Him In That State(Of Course He Hides), How He Explains To Eddie What The Hell He's Doing Yet Trying To Make Him Believe He Is Hereto Sexual(He Doesn't Succeed, If He Did I WOULD Compare It To Shakespeare.), Richard Blowing Up In An Oven, Eddie Blowing Up Richards Pantes, Its All Hysterical.Overall I Suggest A Viewing If You Want To See A Really Dumb Comedy.(Or If You Want To See Bill Nighy And Simon Pegg In The Same Movie But Not On Screen Together.).
Being a (great) fan of Rik Mayall's work (especially the Bottom-series), I was rather disappointed with this film.
How on earth did director Adrian Edmondson get the money for Guest House Paradiso?This new British comedy is basically Bottom: The Movie.
Guest House Paradiso is a spin off from a TV comedy called Bottom but being a film you would think that they would at least try to make it as funny as the sitcom but no , i'm afraid its not.Although there are some funny moments they are to few and far between.
Apart from the fact that this film was made ( I suppose it seemed a good idea at the time considering BOTTOM was so popular ) the one thing that puzzled me about GUEST HOUSE PARADISO was what happened to the lighting ?
This is Rik and Ade people!I really enjoyed this film and I laughed many a times.
I will go back to my Bottom video collection and have a good laugh.If you insist on trying to see this movie, maybe you'd want to get hammered first (just beware of the vomiting scene in the end).Sorry Rik, Sorry Ade, try again!