How sad is this?

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

They don't make sitcoms like this today. In our age of Political correctness this sitcom which pokes fun at pretty much all of the major players in the war wouldn't be allowed to be made today.But it's great fun. Full of catchphrases (it's fun to watch the early episodes where they haven't caught on yet), iconic moments and above all, great characters who we fully follow throughout the madcap farce that ensures throughout the nine series.Sitcoms like this don't age, not really. Yes, the picture quality gets a bit more grainy, and sadly we lose more of the cast as time goes on, but new audiences continue to discover and enjoy it with each passing year.It's a great comedy, and I'll say that more than once.

It's a send up of Secret Army.I get that.However what militates against the potential jokes are these incomprehensible plot lines all performed by a group of rather ordinary actors.The scripts being so devoid of wit, its place is filled full of mirthless,racial and sexual stereotypes involved either in cross dressing or unlikely love triangles.The central tropes of the mispronouncing gendarme plus the tirelessly lovesick waitresses(it's the sex mad French,you see) involved with the decidedly plain and overweight Rene are ,most aptly, flogged mercilessly.Apart from the clunky story lines, the bigger mystery is the reverence in which this sitcom is held.Sorry, it's not you,it's me.I don't get the joke.If there ever was one.

Not content with inflicting 12 long years of anachronistic innuendo on the nation in the form of Are You Being Served?, Croft & Lloyd defied all expectations in coming up with something even lazier and more repetitive with 'Allo 'Allo. It is truly astonishing to see this rating so highly (8.4), since, let's be honest, if you've seen one episode of this tripe, you've seen them all. If, like me, you had parents who watched this sort of rubbish, you really had no choice: it was like being forced to attend the same dreary pantomime, week in, week out. As a 10-year-old, I found this unsophisticated and puerile and it amazes me to learn that they were still trotting out more of the same when I reached 18.The fact that the BBC felt no duty to aim a little higher than racial stereotypes and silly catchphrases only exemplifies the utter contempt they had for their audience in the 1980s. The naïveté shown by the BBC in their mistaken belief that, by making a 26-episode series in 1988-1989, they would be able to syndicate this in the US is probably the only comical thing about this awful programme. This, coupled with the fact that they deemed it appropriate to continue making this sort of thing into the '90s was indicative of the moribund nature of the BBC at the time. Sadly, this was part of a terminal decline from which the BBC never recovered. That they did manage to export this to several other European countries is probably one of the reasons the rest of Europe views us as a nation of imbeciles.

I absolutely love this show. Every episode is funnier than the one before it. If you can actually sit through an episode of Allo Allo and not even crack a smile, I suggest you go to a doctor and have your sense of humor examined. Allo Allo is one of the best, if not THE best Britcoms ever made. I even find this funnier than most of the Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes. To the person who asked us if we'd enjoy a comedy set in a death camp, that's pretty sick and has absolutely nothing to do with our enjoyment of Allo Allo. Here in the US, we do have a comedy set in a POW camp. It's called Hogan's Heroes. Maybe you should check it out.