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Best movie of this year hands down!

I love this movie so much

Why so much hype?

Just what I expected

This is one of the worst movies I've seen in very long time. I watch 5 movies or more each week and this is truly dreadful. The film quality is very grainy, camera work is lousy, editing is so bad I couldn't follow it in some places, script is horrendous, acting is over-the-top stupid, story is marginal at best...It's just plain awful. Were people paid to give this movie 9's and 10's in review? There can be no other explanation. Either that, or everyone saw this as a kid before they developed any taste what-so-ever.I feel bad because I asked my local library to purchase a copy based on IMDb's comments. Now I might have to forget to return it so no one else gets tricked into watching it. Please stop the site abuse from phony reviews!!

It has everything you need in a Christmas film- laughs, tears, a good message, and every Christmas song known to man! Me and my sister still love it and watch it every year at Christmas. It doesn't seem to have been shown on British TV since we recorded back in the early nineties. They really need to show it again so they can introduce a whole new legion of fans to Bernard Bottle. The video is really rare, I paid £40 for it, and now I discover there is a DVD. Bum! But its still amazing. I have seen it so much that when I now hear 'Lonely This Christmas' I expect a bauble to smash after the words "and an unlit Christmas tree" ! "he's Mr success, he's higher than high, he's sweeter than the sweetest cherry pie"

There is something in this movie for everybody. I was 8 when I first saw it, totally by accident. I was looking for Batman but found this instead...and I'm so glad I did! I watched it with my sister who was 6 at the time and we were riveted from start to finish. Maybe it was the splendidly sinister Rowan Atkinson, The sweet Alan Cumming, or most likely, the hilarious Lenny Henry we loved it and I've been looking for a Region 2 DVD for ages. However you get hold of a copy I'd recommend it for all ages! What surprises me most it that (as far as I know) it has never been repeated, it may be a TV movie but it was high class! It took me a while to get some of the jokes but this is a laugh a minute romp about a genie who returns to the land of the living 2000 years after he was imprisoned in a lamp. I'd recommend this for anyone in need of cheering up or just anyone for that matter!

This is an hilarious take on the classic Aladdin-style story featuring British comics. The two leads handle their roles with the right amount of humour and affection. They're not cloying or raucous at all. My fav scene however, is at the end where Rowan Atkinson's Scrooge-like character has been made a reluctant notable benefactor of an international charity. A television crew is interviewing him on his enormous contribution, and he is forced to make condescending remarks to the camera while secretly seething with resentment inside. It is a superb comic moment, and Rowan Atkinson handles it to perfection.There are other great off-the-cuff moments like where the Genie makes a casual remark about attending Jesus' feeding of the multitude; and Bernard hugs a character for not being dead in an alternate story-line (you'll have to see the story to understand). All in all, a brilliant piece of comic storytelling; made more exceptional by its low budget and television environment.