I absolutely love it...funny, funny, funny! Peter O'tole as a redhead, omg...it's great fun! I will watch again...brings a great smile and a laugh! Enjoy! I'm not going to get political, everyone else has...this movie is just great fun! Enjoy! And I think it should be taken as a fun comedy...reguardless...it's British humor at it's best... Cheers!

Most Americans won't get this movie, simply because they know nothing of British culture or history. If one is familiar, this movie is hysterical. The greediness and stupidity of the Aristocracy is wonderfully protrayed by Sir Charles, his wife, and the goofy son Dimsdale. Unhappy commoners represented by the Butler Tucker.Peter O'Toole, of course, is at his lunatic best in this film.

I cannot believe all the positive reviews on this satire/farce--whatever tag you give it, it was bloody AWFUL--and, yes, LONG! I sat through it to the end merely because I knew he was going to turn into Jack the Ripper--that kept me watching in hopes of some redemption (not for Jack but for the film), so that was not a giveaway in this case--rather an enticement to not turn the dang thing OFF. It was ludicrous. The song & dance routines certainly not reminiscent of the Beatles or Monty Python or ANYthing. Awful ridiculous lousy film. Even the satire on the Ruling Class being inane and mindless didn't redeem it. That most of the reviews here deem it "funny" and "hilarious"--whatEVER--shows me that the world has gone to Hades in a bucket if this is the kind of banal mediocre lunacy that pleases. And it is certainly NOT the best thing O'Toole has ever done. I'd much prefer The Lion in Winter--thank you.

I genuinely laughed out loud. Can't say that I do that with many things labeled 'comedy' these days. I also liked reading the reviews. They tickled my funny 'dried' bones, too. Esp. Eric F.

it's certainly not subtle, but that was the 1970's style, wasn't it. Reminds me of Beatles' Help! in the wacky social commentary, but this has a bitter bitter undertone.