The Worst Film Ever

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Rarely am I this compelled to write a review but after watching Passport to Pimlico I have no choice. Truly the most invigorating, entertaining and joyful film experience I've had in too many years. Laugh out loud funny! Every positive review, and this is one of the few films on the IMDb without a negative, is spot on. I was charmed and captivated by each character and wish I lived in Burgundy. The only point I can add to the already, and rightfully so, glorious observations is that every performance in this film should be, and particularly by today's standards, Oscar nominated achievements. But as usual the caliber in general of all British actors is of the highest degree. I never sensed for a moment that a performance was given. Hail Burgundy!

Even when it was made Passport to Pimlico attempted to transport the viewer to another world – one in which the sun shone constantly and young girls sunbathed on rooftops. The film's very first shot takes us from that rooftop down to real life on the streets still littered with the rubble of homes destroyed in the blitz. It's very much a wish-fulfilment story, aimed squarely at the working classes, who suffered the most during the war, and deliberately invoking the spirit of the blitz (while snubbing its nose at authority figures) at a time when post-war austerity had begun to take some of the shine off military victory.The film succeeds very well in what it sets out to do, creating a terrific sense of atmosphere and a them-against-us, small-man-against-the system, victory of the underdog scenario that draws the viewer in. The film also follows a quite logical path, with the immediate influx of black-market profiteers infesting the street with their stalls. Of course, today it would be the looters who massed in double-quick time.The film zips along at a great pace, slowed only by the unnecessary romance between the Duke of Burgundy and Stanley Holloway's daughter, and is filled with peculiarly British moments of humour; the barking dog that wipes the smile from the water diviner's face after his stick has suddenly pointed towards the ground, and one policeman being hotly pursued by another both come to mind. It's just a shame that Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne as a pair of Whitehall mandarins are so shamefully under-used.If you like Brit comedies from the forties and fifties you won't need introducing to this one but, if you're curious, this film is probably as good a starting point as you could hope to find.

Passpot to Plimco is simply a wonderful little film about the residents of the London district of Pimlico. After the accidental discovery of an early medieval treaty and some treasure, the residents find out that they are actually part of the Duchy of Burgundy. Henceforth, they are independent from Great Britain. They organise a government, with the local shopkeepers and bank manager. And for the rest of London it is a godsend, as rationing does not apply to Pimlico, and goods can be bought cheaply. So hundreds of market trader flood the streets. Eventually it is decided to close the "border" with Pimlico. The children are evacuated and food is stored away. Meanwhile the Duke of Burgundy turns up and is procliamed the sovereign. Eventually after several humorous adventures, the inhabitants faced with starvation, decide to rejoin Britain. Its a great film thats bursting with that great humour that Ealing Studios were known for. Well worth a watch

I commend pictures that try something different. Many films just seem like re-treads of old ideas, so that is the big reason I so strongly recommend Passport to Pimlico.The movie is set just after WW2 and the post-war shortages and rationing seem to be driving Londoners "barmy". The film centers on a tiny neighborhood in London called Pimlico. They, too, are sick of not being able to buy what they want but can see no way out of it. That is until they accidentally stumble upon a hidden treasure and a charter which officially named this neighborhood as a sovereign nation many hundreds of years ago! With this document, they reason, they can bypass all the rationing and coupons and live life just as they want, since it turns out they really AREN'T British subjects! Where the movie goes from there and how the crisis is ultimately resolved is something you'll need to see for yourselves. Leave it up the brilliant minds of Ealing Studios to come up with this gem!