Being a (great) fan of Rik Mayall's work (especially the Bottom-series), I was rather disappointed with this film. (1)That typical atmosphere that made the TV-series so special, was mostly gone. Eddie and Richie were always unemployed, so how come they have a hotel now? Since when is Eddie's name no longer "Eddie Hitler"? But ... as with most of those "TV-series-brought-to-big-screen" you've got to stop asking yourself these questions (just the same with books brought to film, comics, etc.) (2)What about that typical absurd sort of humour? off course there were some good scenes (the fighting scenes, candle in the eye, sleeping on the motorbike, etc.) but most of the jokes were just predictable, and extremely vulgar. (3)What about the originality? The whole idea of running a bad hotel reminds me a little bit too much of John Cleese's Fawlty Towers. The name-jokes ("Hello Mr Twat") was copied from "Keeping Up Appearances" ("Hello, Mrs Bucket" "It's Bouquet" Anyone?)? Most of the jokes were copied from the original TV-series (the masturbation joke for instance) - now I think it's rather pitiful if you got to copy your own work (also see Mr Bean his movie, which is just a retelling of his best TV-work)! And last AND least; the puking scenes (which off course were a good example of fine bad taste) were copied from Monty Python's Meaning Of Life.
So ... did I like this movie?! It had it's good times, but as a whole it was very very very disappointing ...
So ... did I like this movie?! It had it's good times, but as a whole it was very very very disappointing ...