Rentadick

This woeful 70s comedy was, believe it or not, scripted by some of the Monty Python team. Appalled at the result they removed their names from the credits leaving John Fortune to carry the blame for 'additional dialogue'. 'Rentadick' probably did seem like a good idea but somewhere along the way it went badly wrong.

Funny? No. The cast - ok, stand up Richard Briers, Donald Sinden, Ronald Fraser, James Booth, Kenneth Cope, Spike Milligan, and Richard Beckinsale. All showed a major misjudgement appearing in this rubbish. Don't waste your time - there's little to raise a smile in this pathetic movie.

Gifted celluloid smut slinger Jim Clark's riotously ribald 'Rentadick' (1972) is a robustly risqué, rump-rockingly rumbustious, bra-bustingly boorish, luridly low-brow, hysterically fly-blown comedy from Brit-sinema's lustiest spray day! Give sulky sadness the shaft!!! As the bawdily backward 'Rentadick' rudely upturns your frumpy frown into a syndicated smirk!! 'Rentadick' rigidly grasps your flaccid giggle gland wiv both 'ahnds and gives it a proper good Tommy Tank! So if you feel all at Bell's End, think you've about bottomed out, fear the lusty lead's bled right out of ya' pencil, then don't despair, slinkily slip out of your plushly velvet Lionel Blair's, generously pour yourself a titanic tot of your most spirited spirit, and take a not-so sneaky peak at comely crumpet Julie Ege's permissively perky, lead-firming peaks!!!! And if luxuriously lewd 70s comedy be your hot cup of steaming meat, then this fleshly fecund film might just prove to be a terrifically tumescent, lingerie lifting, late night treat! Remember, it 'aint a crime to covet a bodacious behind!!! And it's not, as yet, against the law to sensuously stretch your jocular jaw over a prickly pawpaw! Made when PC happily stood for Perfectly Crude, Jim Clark's sinfully penetrating comedy 'Rentadick' is slickly ad-libbed for your illicit, rib tickling pleasure!

We have watched this movie twice this week and my daughter and I both think it is very funny. Ronald Fraser could not be funnier. If you didn't like this movie, try it again. Rentadick should be considered a cult classic.

This abomination, which was written by John Cleese and friends, represents the very low point of English film making. Leaving aside the excesses of the 1970's, this is a racist, sexist, and very unfunny movie with so little plot it is amazing.

Re-arrange your sock drawer instead. The time would be better spent.

I watched "Rentadick", as I assume most people might, solely because I learned that John Cleese and Graham Chapman co-wrote the script; however, in my version at least, they are both uncredited, so they either took their names off out of embarrassment, or their initial work was completely discarded. In either case, the final script is godawful. The direction is so clumsy that it is impossible to know who is in any given scene or what they are trying to do; in its own way, this film is as hard to understand as any of Tarkovsky's work. The cast is a who-is-not-who of British film comedy; the only face (among other parts....) I recognized was Julie Ege. They say few people have actually seen "Rentadick" and lived to tell the tale. Don't risk it. 0 out of 4 stars.