Comedy

Guest House Paradiso

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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!

Release Date : 1999-12-03

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Universal Pictures

Production Country : United Kingdom

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Richie

Original Name : Rik Mayall

Gender : Male

Character Name : Eddie

Original Name : Adrian Edmondson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mr. Johnson

Original Name : Bill Nighy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Hardy

Original Name : Kate Ashfield

Gender : Female

Character Name : Chef

Original Name : Steven O'Donnell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Foxfur

Original Name : Fenella Fielding

Gender : Female

Character Name : Gino Bolognese

Original Name : Vincent Cassel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gina Carbonara

Original Name : Hélène Mahieu

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mr. Nice

Original Name : Simon Pegg

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Nice

Original Name : Lisa Palfrey

Gender : Female

Character Name : Saucy Wood Nymph

Original Name : Sophia Myles

Gender : Female

Character Name : Saucy Wood Nymph

Original Name : Emma Pierson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Young Groom

Original Name : James D'Arcy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Worried Worker

Original Name : Richard Strange

Gender : Male

Character Name : Screen Lover

Original Name : Paul Garcia

Gender : Male

Character Name : Saucy Wood Nymph

Original Name : Anna Madeley

Gender : Female

Character Name : Charlene Nice

Original Name : Jessica Mann

Gender : Female

Character Name : Truck Driver #1

Original Name : Richard Hammatt

Gender : Male

Character Name : Young Bride

Original Name : Kate Loustau

Gender : Male

Character Name : Chatty Worker

Original Name : Bob Mason

Gender : Male

Character Name : Intimidating Man

Original Name : David Sibley

Gender : Male

Reviews

LastCaress1972

@LastCaress1972

2021-06-23

Guest House Paradiso, then; a movie I bought for £1 at the local flea market, and which left me feeling ripped off for the entire pound. What started as a tired sequence of set pieces within the world's dreariest set (I'm sure that was the point, but still), involving Rik Mayall with his shirt tucked into his underpants (again), fighting aimlessly and endlessly with a vaguely embarrassed-looking (as well he should be, as the director) Adrian Edmondson whilst Bill Nighy watched on redundantly, morphed into an extended scene featuring a heavy-handed Vincent Cassel (what was he thinking??) attempting to rape his new "bride" whilst awaiting delivery of some prostitutes he'd ordered, and finally collapsed into a new nadir for cinema with a pea-green-soup puke-a-thon (starring Cassel, Simon Pegg and Fenella Fielding amongst others), with said substance filling rooms and corridors alike. I watched the "Making Of" featurette afterwards, and Rik Mayall explained that he and Adrian (the co-writers of this ****) had so many good ideas for the script that the initial read-through ran at almost three-and-a-half hours, forcing them to condense the gags down to "just the very best" ones. Jesus Christ, a puerile 8-man orgy of cartoon-style vomitus taking up at least the last 15 minutes of the film was one of the "very best" gags? Even judging that sequence by its own disgusting standards, it's been done better before (Monty Python's The Meaning of Life) and since (Team America: World Police). No, in this case it was a just bad gag, executed badly. Dreadful. And I'm not just snootily bemoaning Rik and Adrian's sophomoric tendency to rely on repeatedly hitting each other with large objects, Tom & Jerry-style. They've been doing that for years, to much greater effect (The Comic Strip Presents... Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door for instance was brilliant), but this is easily the poorest thing I've seen from either of them.