Guest House Paradiso

The Young Ones was a huge favourite for millions of viewers on TV years ago. Rick the Prick (Rik Mayall) and Vivien the Punk (Adrian Edmondson) along with Nigel Planer as the hippie student were trailblazers in gross out humour. The idea then was to concoct the worst student household that could be imagined. The result was an outstanding if distasteful TV series.
Mayall And Edmondson have continued since then most notably with an English TV series called Bottom. Guest House Paradiso is apparently Bottom for 90 minutes. Mayall plays Mr Twat and Edmondson is Eddie. They run a horror hotel, one sited next to a nuclear power plant, and specialise in insulting their guests.
It’s Fawlty Towers meets The Young Ones but without the charm of Fawlty. So there are a heap of fart and vomit jokes, lots of severe bashings with fire extinguishers and the like and a good deal of non PC ogling and assaulting of women.
All of that could be all well and good if there was some sort of inventive story and dialogue but Guest House Paradiso sports a script that seems to have been written and directed by Rick The Prick and Vivien The Punk rather than Mayall and Edmondson.
There are some high moments amongst the repetition and shear unfunniness of the rest. I particularly liked Eddie’s journey to work by motorbike, an escapade reminiscent of Wallace and Grommet’s three wheel adventures.
The snaring of testicles by nut cracker was a nice touch and say what you will, I did found attractive the projectile vomit extravaganza of the last ten minutes or so. So you can see that I am indeed in the market for idiocy and that I can comment with some authority on what is basically a film suitable for very few of you.

One Green Vomit Fly

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