Guest House Paradiso

1999

Comedy / Thriller

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 66% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 66% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 11086 11.1K

hotel nuclear power plant slapstick comedy politically incorrect uninvited guest tv show

Plot summary

Richie and Eddie are in charge of the worst hotel in the UK, Guest House Paradiso, neighbouring a nuclear power plant. The illegal immigrant chef has fled and all the guests have gone. But when a famous Italian filmstar, Gina Carbonara, who is in hiding from a fiance she doesn't want to marry, arrives at the hotel, things get very interesting!

Director

Adrian Edmondson Photo
Adrian Edmondson

Top cast

Bill Nighy Photo
Bill Nighy as Mr. Johnson
Vincent Cassel Photo
Vincent Cassel as Gino Bolognese
Simon Pegg Photo
Simon Pegg as Mr. Nice
Bob Mason Photo
Bob Mason as Chatty Worker
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
828.5 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 5
1.66 GB
1920*800
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by MrTrees

"Candle in the eye!"

I've always liked to think of myself as an intelligent and sophisticated viewer of both movies and television. I've always prided myself on appreciating films with strong, uncompromising stories. I know what David Lynch is going on about, okay?The only trouble is that, for some bizarre reason, the sight of Rik Mayall pretending to kick Adrian Edmondson in the groin (accompanied by an over the top crunching sound effect) never, ever fails to make me laugh like an idiot who's just seen an ex-Doctor Who slip over on a banana skin.So excited was I at Richie and Eddie's leap to the celluloid fantasy of the big screen ('ere, 'ark at 'im) that I arrived an hour and five minutes early. I'd been waiting for the film ever since the first rumours about a year and a half before hand.With such a build up, how could it leave up to my expectations? Well, I don't know, but it did.Hysterical laughter ensued right from the off (that's right, I even laughed at the close up of Richie sleeping that starts the film) and didn't stop for, ooh, some time (half way through the ending titles, I think).As movie sandwiches go, this one had a good spread, but had some very good chunks added to the mixture. Amongst the best were Richie's hysterical laughter/wince inducing 'Candle in the eye' and the scene with Simon Pegg's nipple ring that got a truly amazing reaction from a woman sat near me.So, I loved it. True, not everybody finds somebody getting a fire extinguisher in the face, or getting trapped in an oven, or all of the other really painful goings on funny, but we don't talk about them.Any problems? Well...it ended a bit suddenly. It took me a couple of seconds to realize the film was actually over. It did lack Rik and Ade's usual bitter nastiness - just look how many Bottom escapades ended with Richie and Eddie's untimely deaths.Still, a good note to end on: It's bloody funny. No, bloody bloody funny.
Reviewed by samuelmrose 7 / 10

dark British comedy

bottom at its absolute highest perfection. who ever says slap stick comedy is dead and boring is completely wrong. not that this film will only appeal to those who are of a masculine nature. this is another quality British dark comedy with many many jokes not violence related, but it helps if you can let your senses go and laugh at the sheer stupidity of it all.this is a true example of thriving British ingenuity and homegrown talent hats off to them. on a performance level it reminds me very much of the early works of the marx brothers where the same level of enthusiasm and devotion are present in their acting styles, resulting in a performance where the audience can really engage the innate human desire to see others suffer, yet to be detached and still feel safe, much like the principle many TV chat shows operate on. a truly marvelous bit of manipulation leaving all parties feeling better off.
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