Hotel!

This is a rare curiosity. An original drama made for Channel 5 that is not a soap opera. However its one thing paying homage to the Airplane/Naked Gun films but here they steal lines and scenarios from those movies but they make it less funnier.

The drama is just one long endless groans as you try to guess the punchlines and sight gags. You might be better of sticking on a DVD of The Naked Gun or Airplane.

It has a starry cast includes two Doctor Who's on display with Peter Capaldi as the weaselly hotel manager and Peter McGann as the dashing hero saving the lives of the President of the USA, the hotel staff and guests when they are taken over by a bunch of dastardly terrorists.

However you will soon tire of the unoriginal humour.

Aside from comparisons to the disaster spoofs from the 1970's and 80's, this movie attempts to spoof the terrorists ransoming a world leader plots from the 1990's and onwards. So I'm judging this by the genre of slapstick comedy films from the 1920's onwards.

In short, IT DOES NOT WORK! Very poor attempts at humor, relentlessly lined up one right after another. In-your-face slaps instead of sly winks. The actors ran out of scenery to chew and resorted to sawdust. What plot there was fell onto the "over cooked noodle" and kept running away whimpering.

The only redeeming funny part was the final chase scene. Then the LAPD and 3-Stooges-FBI agents ruin it.

Do not waste your time on this one.

Every opportunity for a gag is taken and the cast are brilliant!

well,what i can say about this ? it's an awful effort to copy other films like Airplane ! ,but here in a hotel. They tried to do a slapstick comedy and not take themselves seriously one minute even in the film,but the case is this film is too silly to deserve more than a 3 out of 10.

If there was ever a case for Television Movies over Cinema, then this is it. In the style of Naked Gun and Airplane, and with that oh so wonderful British wit mixed in, Hotel! manages to triumph over it's influence as a fantastically daft and hilariously funny movie. The cast is great, Paul McGann showing his versatility as an actor, and Bradley Walsh as funny as always (which is fairly funny). Also, an interesting sidenote is an uncredited cameo by Peter Sallis as the voice on the radio. If you like your comedy funny, then this is the one for you. Just don't ask me where you can find it, I've been waiting for a repeat on TV or a DVD release for ages.