The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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discover your love for Wales NOW!

To be Welsh is to resist invaders

I'm British!

English humor at its best

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Starring: Hugh Grant , Tara Fitzgerald , Colm Meaney , Ian McNeice , and Ian Hart
Director: Christopher Monger
Manufacturer: Miramax
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ASIN: 6305428557
Release Date: 1999-09-07

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discover your love for Wales NOW!.......2004-08-01

This movie is a real gem - certainly not your average Hollywood action spectacle but a rather quiet movie about people - full of warmth and a lovely sense of humor - that you'll want to see again and again.

In telling the story of a Welsh village united by their pride and love for their country to overcome their differences and undertake the Herculean effort to raise their hill to officially be a mountain the movie really celebrates the uniqueness of the individual and the undefeatable human spirit in general.

In an age that serves you all those horrible pictures of violence and misery from around the world on a daily basis it's a movie that leaves you hopeful and a little more positive about the human race in general and pretty much in love with the people of Wales in particular.

While the Welsh might be portrayed as quite an odd folk it is done with so much obvious affection shining through every second of the picture that you're left wishing you'd be called a Cymro yourself - as Cymro (the Welsh word for Welsh) means friend...

To be Welsh is to resist invaders.......2004-03-07

This film is interesting to understand the pride of the Welsh as regards the English. Proud of their mountains as a refuge, a resistance haven against all invasions, the latest invasion being that of the English. Some English cartographers come one day to measure the « moutain » in the village. But it has to be some one thousand feet high to be listed as a mountain. Unluckily it is some eighteen feet short. So the villagers, preacher first and publican second, or vice versa, decide to detain the Englishmen and to build up the necessary eighteen feet on top of their « mountain » to reach the necessary level and altitude. And they do it. And this endeavour becomes a legend. The preacher will die while taking part in the action. He will be buried up there straight away and a monument will be built on top of this « mountain » – later on. That shows how some purely mental representation can become the strongest incentive to literally move mountains. That’s the Welsh spirit and that’s why they still exist as a proud and independent people, with their language and their culture. They have been able to make their own vision of themselves true, even if they had to change a few things in the landscape to satisfy the arbitrary regulations of the invaders.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

I'm British!.......2003-11-17

Having read the review from Norway on this film I would just like to add that this just may be British humour at its best! As a Welsh person I, personally do not mind being called British or a citizen of the United Kingdom but I do not live in England and am not English any more than a person who lives in Bristol or Canterbury is Scots or Welsh. Yes, the humour is great and the film is just fanastic but the title does let it down a little!

English humor at its best.......2003-04-14

For me as A Norwegian this film shows the very best of English humor, and shows us the true spirit of enginuity in the English people. This is one of the best films ever! This is A must see movie!

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Textbook Connolly.......2004-07-19

Two awesome performances on one disc, spoilt rotten. The first gig for me is the best especially the part about billy's experience in Ibiza with Diarrhoea and also the bit about "The Womens Movement" I never tire of these two gigs and must have watched them many times, if you need chearing up then I implore you to spend your hard earned cash on this DVD, its worth every penny...

The "Big Yin" strikes again!!.......2001-05-17

The comic genius of Billy Connolly never fails to astound me. In these performances he manages yet again to mix irreverent schoolboy humour, with which he has become a family favourite, with his diminutive and instinctive observational comedy. The first of the two performances was, in my opinion, less worthy of praise than the second. However, there is no denying that there are still a few belly laughs in store for the unwary listener(see "women's movement" sketch). The difference I noticed between the two programmes was that in the first, Connolly relies more heavily on building and then maintaining a relationship with the audience, whereas the second is immmediately shown to be more "in your face" and therefore makes for better comedy. As always some of the jokes are coarse, and the language ripe, but if you want an instant anti-depressant, accept no substitute. BUY IT.

Another belter........2001-02-17

This is yet another hilarious concert performance by the master of "sideways thinking",his recollections of his friends and his travels had me falling off my chair with laughter.Simply the BEST.

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A real blast from the past...perhaps the TOO distant past.......2007-12-28

I hate to say that anything from the seventies feels dated: after all, don't we keep reviving everything there is to revive from that decade, be it Life on Mars or Look-In Annuals? Here, however, I must concede that a lot of the material is so old and the sources it is parodying so correspondingly ancient that quite a lot of the humour is lost. I firmly recommend the first of these collections (the Christmas specials) but here you're left scratching your head a bit at what exactly is being sent up. Braden's Week? The Music Lovers? Dickie Henderson? It's all like something from another world.

Of course, occasionally there's a cracker. Katherine Hepburn advertising Oxo is sublime. The Barbra Streisand impersonation couldn't fail. The Benny Hill song is terrific and shows there were those who considered his act tired even in 1972!

Elsewhere, there is a certain historical interest to be had, as Esther Rantzen is sent up before anyone had really heard of her and Jess Yates gets a roasting before his throbbing organ got him into trouble (he's the Stars on Sunday anchor who spawned the tragic Paula Yates - although, apparently, he didn't: it was Hughie Green all along).

Fascinating, then, for seventies buffs, but of limited interest (and funniness) to anyone else.

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