ARE YOU BEING SERVED? is a 1977 big screen outing for the popular British TV sitcom of the same name. All of the same cast are back in a plot that sees the workers being packaged off for an ill-fated holiday on the 'Costa Plonka'. There's something endearingly low budget about the production which was entirely shot in a studio in Britain aside from one brief airport scene.
The film isn't as funny as the TV series and it's a bit odd not to have any canned laughter, but I found myself enjoying it regardless. The humour is more along the lines of CARRY ON ABROAD than anything else but the actors are all very good at line delivery and the likes of John Inman and Mollie Sugden rarely step out of line. The film is fairly smutty in places but not offensively so as in these modern times. Much of the humour relies on puns which for the most part are very amusing, and there's a bonus in having FAWLTY TOWERS star Andrew Sachs playing another Spaniard.
The film isn't as funny as the TV series and it's a bit odd not to have any canned laughter, but I found myself enjoying it regardless. The humour is more along the lines of CARRY ON ABROAD than anything else but the actors are all very good at line delivery and the likes of John Inman and Mollie Sugden rarely step out of line. The film is fairly smutty in places but not offensively so as in these modern times. Much of the humour relies on puns which for the most part are very amusing, and there's a bonus in having FAWLTY TOWERS star Andrew Sachs playing another Spaniard.