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Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Is it legal is an interesting comedy series. The show details out instances of law misbehavior of a local law firm. Funny stuff and a great series. I give this comedy series a 9 out of 10 starts. For all the good a comedy show like this produces it does not equate to the real world. In reality people do not live such a comedy lifestyle. They live in the real world with real consequences. Everyday people wonder about legalities. Is it legal to do this, is it legal to do that. These are all interesting and valid questions in the quest for legal knowledge. Fortunately there is a website that helps address these legal questions. The site on is it legal to can be checked out at isitlegalto.com.cheers!

This very English sit com contains a series of under-performing human beings who spend 8 hours a day together in a small law office. We all recognise elements of them either in ourselves or in others yet how to describe them? Why do the English not have the exact words? Because we would consider it unkind to give harsh labels to the harmless. The Dalmation-dotty hopeless young Colin. Bumbling Bob - permanently paralysed by a mixture of passion and embarrassment. Stella: the real engine of the establisment but never getting work and a love-life in sync. Young Darren - his school friends would be out stealing cars but Darren has, relatively, a conscience and some ambition, and has risen to the level of office dogs-body. Alison a bored, beautiful bitch. Dick - posh senior partner, clever, clubbable and terminally lazy. An excellent and often accomplished cast.This is at times hilarious comedy. Its because we don't have the words to precisely categorise every kind of fool that it remains kind and not judgemental. We get to like them all in different ways. There is a self-effacing quality about Simon Nye's writing too - clever but never flashily so.Oddly it reminds me a little of "King of Queens" - entirely different setting but similarly human and not unkind.

I thought the show would be worse without Dick, the wonderfully smug and posh senior partner, but Is It Legal was great right to the end. I like the way Nye isn't afraid to make class jokes, which are pretty rude, but perfectly charming. Every character was a weird twist on an apparent stereotype, so they were all weird and funny and vulnerable and more complicated than they first appeared. But at the same time, the scripts were excellent, with genuinely great one-liners. This is some of the best comedy ever made.

English sitcoms always seem so much fresher than American ones, and this is a perfect example of why.There is very little slapstick or visual comedy in the series, but what they do have works. The real strength of 'Is it Legal?' is in the characterisations, and this is typical of English sitcoms.Most American sitcoms that try to create comedic characters tend to go overboard. The word 'subtlety' appears to have gone missing from the US dictionaries. Let's look at some examples here.Bob is such an understated and self-effacing character, but without making it depressing. He is naive, shy and lacks self-confidence - very much the bumbling English nobody that Hugh Grant used to specialise in. Only here, Bob is believable, worthy of our sympathy, and funny.My favourite character though is Alison. The essentially talentless but scheming and bitchy secretary that many of us have probably seen in a thousand workplaces. Yet at the same time we know exactly what her weaknesses and vulnerabilities are, and they are used to perfection in many scripts. By the way, if anyone has any more details on Kate Isitt, the beautiful actress who plays Alison, then I would love to hear from them.This is not English comedy in the style of Monty Python (which I dearly love). It is subtle, quiet, unassuming, but nevertheless extremely amusing. Not belly laughs or gross-outs but a pleasant, undemanding and wholly entertaining comedy.