Holiday on the Buses

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Holiday on the Buses

This film should be remembered for Blakeys echoing demented laugh, Olives derriere rising from the deep (inspiration for Spielberg perhaps) but most of all, for the towering achievement that is Bob Grants performance. Never as somebody truly personified a hackneyed stereotype in a hackneyed stereotypical film from a place and era of such monumental badness (eg - early 70's British films), that the result is so memorable! This performance is a rough diamond at the bottom of a very deep pit. But at least it is there and I hope that others begin to pick up on a film that is so bad that it is timeless. Viva Bob say I!!

I Know this is not a popular view ..but this movie is near-excellent! ...The very funniest of British 70s Comedy with a superb cast ofsubtle-nuance actors ...One of the funniest movies you will ever see in your Life!!! ....forget pompous garbage and just enjoy....a lot of people say this is the weakest in the series .. Its not ...its the Best of them all ...enjoy and have a Laugh !

holiday on the buses is a classic British movie, with plenty of jokes and comic references, this truly is up there with the carry on movies and not forgetting the confession movies. quality 10/10. not too be missed!!!! on the buses, mutiny on the buses and holiday on the buses completes the hat-trick, these films are a must for any fan of the 60's , 70's British movie era. all movies are just over an hour and twenty minutes long, I've been a fan since i was a boy. the story: fired from the bus depot jack and stan go beside the seaside on a holiday camp in wales to run the resorts transport, but when their former inspector blakey turns up as chief security inspector all hell is gonna break loose for stan and jack.

A new direction for the third movie in the series based on the British 60's & 70's TV show. This one see's Stan, Jack and Blakey fired from the depot and get new jobs at a Pontins holiday resort. Stilled filled with the typical 70's British sense of humour, i.e. short skirts, busty women and innuendo all over the place. A few other British sitcom stars from other successful shows at the time make an appearance basically playing the same characters as in their own shows. But things must have been getting too repetitive by this point as this outing even has nudity thrown in. Still if you like your humour nostalgic and non too pc then this is for you.

On The Buses fans expect Stan, Jack and Blakey to do the business and here, as always, they are not disappointed. I can imagine that anyone coming cold to this or the other two Buses movies might be expecting more, but On the Buses isn't about convoluted stories or endless jokes. If you are a fan it's another dose of pure escapism, if you are not it must be diabolical. There's no in between. But then the same is true of Steptoe And Son, Are You Being Served?, Dad's Army and all the other spin offs. And remember, Buses got 3 spin offs, one of them being the highest grossing British film of 1971. Most of the other TV series, Steptoe apart, only survived one large screen airing, so it can't be half bad.

Vastly underrated 60's comedy. Ostensibly a light hearted saucey romp away from the confines of the bus depot 'holiday' has an often overlooked subtext questioning British values in a time of looming crisis. The relationship between lovable rogues Jack and Stan and the tragi-comic figure of Blakey hints at industrial strife and a questioning of the class structure in post 60's UK (note how Blakey's 'status' fails to save him in the face of the wrath of his Oxbridge educated bosses). Olive's brave but ultimately doomed attempts at addressing the marital imbalance with husband Arthur is deeply moving and a bleak vision of the gains made by feminists a decade earlier. The film features possibly the finest performance of character actor Arthur Mullard's career. His role as Wally Briggs culminating in the dance tutor scene with Blakey is laden with homo-erotic imagery, a brave move given the intended audience. Excellent stuff.

I loved these films growing up and watching this in my 30s is just a fun. Perhaps they don't make me laugh out loud but the do give a warm feeling. I think this one Is the better of the On The Buses films.

Has anyone realised that Blakey's " Doh!" noises have ripped off by Homer Simpson? This film is a classic slice of realism! Seriously. It is Ken Loach with slapstick. These characters are a true reflection of what it is to be British, not just in the seventies, but now also. Struggling to make ends meet, these characters are present in today's society. I won't have anyone knocking this film as it is not only hilarious but it is also, in an odd way, quite moving, especially with lines like, "We haven't got enough money for grub." People who scoff at this film are, in reality, the film's biggest fans, it's just that they refuse to admit it.