Solidrariol
Am I Missing Something?
ChanFamous
I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
Bessie Smyth
Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.
Alistair Olson
After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Lee Eisenberg
Sort of an updated "Some Like It Hot", "Nuns on the Run" casts Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies) as a pair of bumbling gangsters who have to pose as nuns to hide from their employers, a rival gang, and the cops. There are more than a few scenes that they must have REALLY had fun filming! It's one movie that's guaranteed to restore anyone's faith...in slapstick humor, that is.Yes, it's nice, brainless fun, complete with a scene whose target audience is probably 14-year-old boys. I particularly liked the scene with the gutter, but the truth is that the whole movie is a good time. Another fine accomplishment from George Harrison's HandMade Films (Harrison is even credited at the beginning of the movie).And remember: we have to keep sinning to keep Jesus in business! PS: Janet Suzman (Sister Liz) is the niece of anti-apartheid activist Helen Suzman.
lastliberal
If you have a comedy starring two of England's best, Eric Idle (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) and Robbie Coltrane (Rubeus Hagrid in the harry Potter movies), then you just have to watch. This was a charming little comedy about two guys trying to go straight, but pulling one last job and ending up in a nunnery.Of course, you have the Catholic jokes, and the guys in a girls dorm jokes, some Oscar-nominated talent, an MBE, and a nude girl in a shower, but that's all icing on the cake.British comedy is just fin to watch. You won't end up on the floor laughing, but you will chuckle for the whole 89 minutes.Jonathan Lynn (The Fighting Temptations, The Whole Nine Yards, My Cousin Vinney) wrote and directed this film, and you know he can make us laugh.
tarhes
Gangsters, nuns, and an all-girl college dormitory....oh my! This film is definitely one of my all-time favorites! A must-see and a must have in any comedy collection. This film echoes with the wonderful blasphemes of Monty Python's The Life of Brian. Being a Monty Python fan, the appeal of Idle was first to draw me in...the adorable lewdness and shrewdness of Coltrane's Charlie McManis left me begging for more. "A pretty girl like you, I'd give you fifty..." Is it possible to do evil to do good? Is the church out for money? Should we just go on sinning...otherwise isn't it all for naught? Idle and Coltrane exude comic genius throughout the film.
cyclone259
One of the funniest comedy, if not British comedy films out there. Coltraine and Idle do such a fantastic job because they have great chemistry. It's a shame that they haven't done more films together, even if not a sequel. POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEADActually, I'm not sure what you'd do a sequel about that could keep the pace of the first film, plus be original. The storyline of Nuns On The Run isn't itself unique, as there have been other films where someone is "on the lam", doing their best to 'blend in'. The thing that sets this film apart is the humour, especially Eric Idle, trying to teach a roomful of girls about the Trinity: "God is like a shamrock: small, green and split three ways." I'm not Catholic, so I hope nobody took offense to that, but it was hilarious. Of course the gratuitous shower scene was an interesting twist, but nonetheless it was another embarrassing situation for the two blokes to muck through.This movie wasn't a huge box office draw, but does that really matter?
