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I've had to add my comments, mainly to underline the concencus; this film has been woefully underexposed considering its quality.

This is a tight piece of work. There are clear but useful metaphors such as the rush between plots and stories being reflected by the rush of the service counter. There are some accurate truths about restaurants such as the fights and the sweat in the kitchen being distilled into glorious amuse bouche. There is an intimacy between the characters compounded by the packed tables and the candlelight.

I have been that barman btw. Everyone's my friend, I am the oracle. Excellent.

All in all, a splendid and tasty platter, highly recommended. It must also have been done on a budget of under $4-5 million too, so hats off.

The only thing I could have done with would have been more of the sexy black lass Ken chats up at the bar. Still, this film knows a lot about making one's mouth water.

Children go to school. Sometimes teachers are lazy and they use educational TV shows.

This is a series of educational TV shows. Luckily they're very short shows so you don't have to concentrate too hard!

If you think the DVD is too short maybe you can watch the testcard to recreate those days off sick.

I was going to write this review in the style of kids/Open University TV... but I can't, it is late. And I'm not the writer of this fabulous series.

Please please see it if you possibly can. 10/10 do not miss.

It was alright. not a bad little flick and didn't look too expensive to make, handy considering its box office. Still, it has that 1990s TVM look that dates movies horribly. I'm no scholar of film stock and the like but it is an especially unappealing way to photograph a movie.

The music is awful too, farty horns and slap bass supplying the cheap, 'funky' incidentals and songs.

Also bad (and a major flaw) is Lenny's American accent which is unconvincing and surprising considering his talent to mimic and impersonate. His Mafiosi is oddly more believable than his Harlem bloke.

The makers clearly missed a trick here. Lenny should have been allowed to make his white character from Dudley and the difference of voice and behaviour would have been bigger and funnier. I imagine that this didn't happen because 1) It would have required a crowbar to force that into the plot and 2) it would have been ridiculous in extreme. British readers may (like me) relish the idea of Lenny in whiteface talking rubbish about the baggies and yam yam and Wolvo but it would be more or less imcomprehensible to normal people.

Lenny is by no means perfect in this but he is the entire reason I give it 6, but then again I remember the bucket of water song. oooooooooooooooookkkaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy