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The Englishman Who Went up a Hill But Came Down A Mountain | Year: 1995 Classification: Comedy Directed: - Christopher Monger Actors/Actresses: - Hugh Grant - Tara Fitzgerald - Colm Meaney A movie with heart and fun for Anglophiles and country folk This movie is a labor of love, as is its topic. This true story, well acted and beautifully filmed, initially stopped me with its music as I surfed past a television broadcast. Within minutes, I was entranced, equally by the fine character acting as by the familiar faces of Hugh Grant and Colm Meaney. In the first 10 minutes, I cancelled all other plans for that evening, and spent my first commercial break calling friends to tell them it was on, then spent my remaining commercial breaks surfing to find it on video. Movies of similar beauty, heart, and soul include Waking Ned Devine, Fairy Tale: A True Story, Shakespeare in Love, and The Secret of Roan Inish. I'm now buying a copy to give my mother as a gift, and look forward to watching it on our home theater system. A movie of the people, with quiet in-jokes between English and Welsh that seem to elude the Ugly AmeriMalkin. Spend a couple of hours with the people of Wales, and feel your heart expand with the love and care and fun of this fine film. There aren't enough of such gems available! Movies that try hard to be funny usually aren't I guess you have to be a huge fan of British humor. I mean, so huge, that you love a British movie just for being, well, a British comedy. I'm a big fan of Hugh Grant. I enjoyed Notting Hill and I LOVED Four Weddings and a Funeral. <BR>But this movie was a lame duck. It's supposed to be funny that a little town gets all in an uproar over the fact that what they perceive to be their 'mountain' is a handful of feet short of being considered a mountain, by mountain height standards (MHS). So bent out of shape are they, that they keep the mountain measurers in the town, and while they're not looking, the townsfolk pile dirt and grass on top of the hill, because apparently a hill with a 16 foot mount on top of it makes a mountain.<BR>It's a one joke movie where the joke just isn't funny. To please the viewers, they throw in a romance at the end of the movie that doesn't work. She starts off hitting on our hero just to keep him around, but then falls in love with him...but you really can't tell when that actually happened, considering the romance was thrown in near the end of the movie. The music gets silly at points where you're supposed to laugh. But the dialogue isn't funny, they make fun of Grant for being English (as if that's worse than being Welsh and obsessing over a hill), and it's just hard to keep wondering how long it'll be until this two hours of snoozefest is finished. For a swerve, the picture on the cover of the movie is a more updated one of Grant. They were smart in not showing what he really looked like in the movie on the cover.<BR>The introduction of the movie was awful, but the scenery was pretty. Definitely rent this one before you decide to buy. Buying this without previously viewing it would be a HUGE mistake. Worst evening of my life. I would have rather spent a full 6 hours of an evening watchign a boring 1-0, 15 inning MINOR league baseball game than have to watch this again. If i had a spoon within reach, i would gouge out my eyeballs instead of having to watch this ridiculous, awful film ever again. Worst.....Film.......Ever! Buy The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain Search with the Priority Search Engine on The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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