The staff of Grace Brothers Department Store head off for a summer holiday in the amusingly named resort Costa Plonka in Spain, only to find themselves caught up in an armed rising.
The TV series was classic, I was a young boy when it was first aired but remember it well. I'm not afraid to confess that I had an early crush on Wendy Richards (Miss Brahms). In addition to the great cast of regulars (John Inman arriving at the airport in a pink suit is pure camp) Andrew Sachs reprises his Manuel character, but as a Spanish hotel manager instead of a confused waiter. The humour is very much of its time, very saucy, also a bit racist (in this instance, there are some Germans also staying at the same hotel). The movie starts off at the store, feeling much like one of the TV episodes. Sadly when the story movie moves to Spain it is limited to the hotel set and it just feels very stretched, by the end the same old jokes have worn thin and the ending is very silly.
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